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Scottish Rock Garden Club - THE SCOTTISH PLANT COLLECTORS GARDEN in PITLOCHRY, PERTHSHIRE
... the collections of each of the main Scottish Plant Collectors. Grouping the plants by their collector will define the garden. We have all ... conditions. Others plant in a manner pleasing to their own eye. In none of these is the country of origin and the Plant Collector given ... to China and Japan. It seems that, in the main, each Plant Collector specialised in one area of the World! Phormiums from New ...
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Box Thorn
... blooms. Another thing Heronswood represented to me was the tradition of plant explorers: naturalists traveling the world in search of unusual plants. ... it was a plant collector with a penchant for the unusual. Little did he or she--yes, there were several renowned plant collectors who ... mountains. If you can settle for just one part of the plant--and dried out at that--you might check at your local ...
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Arnold Arboretum - Current Plant Highlights - May
... grounds Current Plant Highlights May The extensive ornamental crabapple collection represents decades of work by Arboretum staff. Charles S. Sargent, the first director, and E. H. Wilson, plant collector and Arboretum ... handkerchief tree, was introduced to the West in 1901 by renowned plant explorer E. H. Wilson. Many plant lovers make pilgrimages to the Arboretum during May in hopes of finding ...
www.arboretum.harvard.edu

Center for Plant Conservation
... . This is not true. You can help correct this misunderstanding. By becoming an advocate for plant conservation! Our native plants are declining at an alarming rate. Among them are some of ... , and other environmental damage are eroding our natural plant communities. Some species have declined to such small numbers that a bad storm or a plant collector could wipe them out in minutes. Without ...
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Florida Plant Collecting: Regulations and Permitting
... Plant collecting in Florida, whether for scientific, commercial or personal purposes, is, in most cases, subject to a variety of regulations. The information presented here is intended to help the plant collector ... and possession of pressed plant and herbarium specimens. Many of these permits are administered by Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ). Examples include, plant pathogens, federal noxious ...
www.flmnh.ufl.edu

Abies fraseri
... Sun: Full sun to part shade Water: Medium moisture Maintenance: Medium Plant Culture and Characteristics Sources for this plant View our source(s) Uses: Wildlife: Flowers: Leaves: Fruit: Hedge Suitable ... epithet and common name honor John Fraser (1750-1811), Scottish botanist and plant collector, who discovered this plant and introduced it to Britain. Problems: Click for detailed list of pests and ...
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Plant Delights Nursery -- Expedition to China
... Variegated Plants Organi-size Your Garden Palm Hardiness Report Paul Aden Hosta Introductions and Breeding Plant Delights Nursery Hosta Breeding Program Pulmonaria, Pulmonaria, Pulmonaria Running Hot and Cold - The ... different pyrossia ferns, orchids, tupistras, and rarities that would make the most avid US plant collector jump for joy. Dr. Kaiyun then showed us through his breeding house of begonia ...
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Plant Delights Nursery -- Trillium Tracking in the Southeast United States
... Variegated Plants Organi-size Your Garden Palm Hardiness Report Paul Aden Hosta Introductions and Breeding Plant Delights Nursery Hosta Breeding Program Pulmonaria, Pulmonaria, Pulmonaria Running Hot and Cold - The Issue ... plant collector, Ozzie was another member of our 1996 China expedition. We were joined by Ron Dettermann of the Atlanta Botanical Garden and his wife Sue for a evening of plant ...
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Frank Kingdon-Ward: Plant Hunter and Romantic
... his work uncongenial and disillusioning. Being already set on becoming a plant collector, but having little or no experience, he needed fortune to smile ... collect plants in the Yunnan Province of southwest China, his previous collector George Forrest having moved to the employ of J. C. ... are: The Land of the Blue Poppy, Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World, and Plant Hunter's Paradise. It could be ...
www.rhododendron.org

Collector
... Weber included the following photo on page 103 (with permission) in her book, The Passionate Collector, Simon & Schuster, 1980. The accompanying text from page 102 of the book (with permission) ... up a means of communication with other growers. I then developed an international seed and plant exchange in which several hundred growers exchanged information and plants. My collection quickly expanded ...
www.humboldt.edu

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