Species Project
Our temperate species project focuses on
recording species present in New Zealand and taking steps to
ensure that accessions are not lost from cultivation in this
country.
To this end we are supporting a survey being performed by Dr
Marion MacKay (Massey University) that is recording temperate
species in cultivation in New Zealand. If your would like to
contribute information to her database, please email Marion at:
[email protected].
You can read about some of the outcomes to date of this survey
that she reported at the International Rhododendron Species
Conservation Conference here:
http://www.bgci.org/ourwork/rhododendron_conference2013/, as
well as other papers that were presented.
Others of us are taking steps to propagate temperate species
that are not common in New Zealand, or represent single
accessions from the wild. Please send us a message on our
contact page if you know of plants that may be at risk
because they are not commonly grown. We all know how easy it is
to lose a precious plant during a drought or a storm and a plant
shared with others via propagation is not gone forever. We can
arrange for limited propagation of plants for the purpose of
their conservation and for their cultivation at a garden other
than your own.
A useful link to other work on rhododendron species conservation
is: http://www.rscg.org.uk/
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