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...
Seed Collection in a Land of Extremes People thought Cheryl Birker must be crazy when she told them she was going to be doing a 14-mile hi...
November 2020 News Landscapes under our care ranging in scale from small gardens to large public landscapes and vast na...
Conservation Champion: Todd Bittner Charged with the stewardship of 3,600 acres of breath-taking beautiful natural areas at Cornell Bota...
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy – Reintroduction Reintroductions, like other land management activities, require design and planning for successful i...
Adaptive, Sustainable Options for Waterwise Utahans Red Butte Garden Dramatic curving stone walls … transform the hillside into a sculptural composition of vegetation,...
Ecology and Design for Houston’s Memorial Park Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects Not too long ago, native aggressive yaupon holly thickly overgrew soggy ground in the Eastern Glades...
Restoring Ozark Landscapes at Shaw’s Nature Reserve Missouri Botanical Garden It’s surprising how much work goes into managing ‘natural’ lands. Removing invasive plants, re...
October 2020 News The CPC National Meeting has always been a centerpiece of our plant conservation work and the fine i...
