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2010
is the UN's International Year of Biodiversity |
February 16th
through 19th, 2010
Session Abstracts
7A - Ethics in Sourcing Plants
Speaker: Graham
Buck
This talk covers
the planning phase of the landscaping project including the sourcing
and provenance of the plants, creating a plant list and gardening
with rare plants. Sourcing of native plants is an important facet of
the landscaping plan with many factors to consider when making a
decision. This includes the distance from the planting site, natural
origin of planting material, wild sourced or cultivar, to name a few.
Akin to sourcing is the deciding on the species list for the native
planting. However, since the term native is sometimes applied any
plant of North American origin it can be hard to know what is
naturally found in a particular region. Rarity of a plant species is
another important factor when deciding on a plant list, and this talk
will address ways that growing native plants can help and harm plant populations.
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