Vickie Caraway to Retire Vickie Caraway has been a central figure in Hawaii Plant Conservation and sadly for us she is taking...
Hurricane Recovery Updates In early September, the high winds and storm surge from Hurricane Irma devastated The Kampong, the N...
Large Increase in National Collection After review of the collections records of CPC institutions in 2017, the number of plants in the Nat...
Favorite Seed Germination Information References of CPC Conservation Officers Michael Dosmann, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Dirr and Heuser’s manual on Woody pla...
Imperiled Venus flytrap Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant species endemic to 100 km landward radius c...
Kew Foundation America Funds Seed Collections of Our Most Threatened Rare Plant Populations In the areas of North America that were greatly impacted by major hurricanes in 2017, with the help ...
California Plant Rescue Initiative In California, CPC members have come together as California Plant Rescue (CaPR), working to better c...
Living collections augment wild seed harvest for rare species research Hawai’i has less than 1% of the land mass of the United States, yet contains almost half of the th...
Collecting and Conserving This fall, The Arboretum at Flagstaff has been preparing packets of Packera franciscana propagules...
November 2017 News Throughout much of human history, autumn has been the time of harvest. While crops have been domesti...
Announcements: The Morton Arboretum We are pleased to announce a new publication produced by the Global Tree Conservation Program at The...
Do Storm Events Trigger Seedlings? “Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden staff, with the assistance of many volunteers and land managers...
Weathering the storms. . . Our hearts go out to our participating institutions and conservation partners who suffered losses to...
October 2017 News In this month’s issue of Save Plants we are sharing updates from some of our CPC member gardens af...
Plant of the Month: Whited’s milkvetch (Astragalus sinuatus) Whited’s milkvetch (Astragalus sinuatus) is found only within a ten-square mile (26 sq. km) area i...
Student programs Cornell Botanic Garden has a variety of programs for children in grades K-8. In the International Cr...
September 2017 News If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of 10 years, plant trees; if in terms of ...
Plant of the Month: Macfarlane’s Four-o’clock (Mirabilis macfarlanei) This showy plant is quite something if you encounter it in the dry areas of Eastern Oregon and Weste...
