These ideas are some potential ways in which you and we might find, propagate and secure the future of threatened plants, once the most worthy cultivars have been identified through the Threatened Plants Project. Further suggestions are welcome!
- Have a look in your garden for it
- Look through old nursery catalogues to try and find where it might still exist – you can send any old, unwanted nursery catalogues to the RHS LIndley Library in London for them to keep for reference
- Ring round or visit nurseries which previously held it to see if they still have some plant material
- Grow it in your garden
- Start a National Plant Collection®, expand an existing collection, start a duplicate collection at a different site or offer to take on a collection which the previous owner wishes to hand on
- Propagate
- Licence commercial propagation
- Swap plant material or seeds at Plant Heritage’s annual Plant Exchange, to be held in Lancaster in May 2012 at the Annual General Meeting (Plant Heritage members only)
- Donate seed for sale at the annual Plant Heritage seed shop at the Hampton Court Flower Show in the Plant Heritage marquee (all welcome)
- Join Plant Heritage, volunteer or make a donation to continue the work of the Threatened Plants Project and identify more rare and valuable plants
- Hardy Plant Society Conservation Scheme
- National Trust Plant Conservation Programme
- Save seed in Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank
- Micropropagate – look out for Plant Heritage’s free micropropagation workshops throughout the year (exclusively for collection holders)
- Specimens of the most threatened cultivars will be welcomed at the RHS Herbarium at Wisley for permanent reference
Last updated 06/10/11