What Makes a Plant Rare? The Center for Plant Conservation works to save plants –specifically rare plants. In 1981, Deborah...
February News 2021 In CPC’s early years, our knowledge of seed biology was not what it is today. We assumed that most...
Conservation Champion: Lisa Hill In the Biophysics Lab at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, you may see Lisa Hi...
A Study for the Ages Seed banking is promoted as an amazing conservation tool, in part, because of the impressive longevi...
Reaping what we’ve sown: Using long-term seed collections for novel seed conservation research Working with the CPC network over the past five years has opened my eyes to many conservation truths...
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy – Seed Longevity of Alpine Species During CPC’s 2020 National Meeting, Alex Seglias of Denver Botanic Garden presented her work exami...
January News 2021 It’s a New Year and CPC has NEW works to share! We welcome you to our NEW-ly designed website, www...
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy: Horticulture Best Practices for Rare Plants The CPC Best Practice Guidelines expanded this month with the addition of Horticulture Best Practice...
Growing a Rare Shrub and a Program San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) has long displayed rare and native plants and supported conservation...
Metacollections and Collaborations Botanic gardens have a long history of transferring seeds, pollen, and plants from one garden to ano...
Where Rare Plants are Free to Flourish In the hills above Berkeley, a California native plant sanctuary nurtures rare species in a creative...
Conservation Champion: Christy Powell Christy Powell, our January Conservation Champion, is a conservation horticulturist extraordinaire! ...
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy: Making Videos With a Smart Phone In adapting to the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, the power of remote meeting and communica...
Conservation Champion: Dr. Barbara Millen Dr. Barbara Millen is our incoming Board Chair and our Conservation Champion for December 2020. As a...
Honoring Lynde Uihlein • Board Chair, Center Plant Conservation 2018-2020 While Lynde remains a trustee, she is stepping down from her time as board chair. Lynde took the rei...
A Time of Change and Thanks As with so many things in 2020, CPC’s board of trustees is experiencing change, with new leadershi...
Resiliency: Strengthening Network Connections As a network, CPC connects plant conservationists, amplifying their knowledge and experience to save...
December 2020 News It is now December. When I look back at the January 2020 newsletter quote, “I like to think of 202...
