Loss of First Species in US to Sea-Level Rise Reinforces Plant Conservation’s Urgency A plant made headlines this month, though not for reasons we like: Scientists believe the United States […]
Conservation and Sustainability
Extreme Conservation
Vice President of Horticulture Brian Galligan and Associate Director of Landscape Maintenance Stephen Jurek recently flew to the other side of the world to manage the rescue of five trees, […]
Garden Helps Protect One of the World’s Most Biodiverse Places
Recently, the Garden received 350 tree seeds from Costa Rica—and a chance to help protect one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Osa Conservation, an organization based in Costa […]
Honoring the Mother Plants
This Mother’s Day, we take a look at the plants that make beach restoration possible. Large-scale restoration projects often require thousands, even millions of plants to be raised to maturity […]
Walk on the Wild Side
Photos by John Eder If a botanical garden is a museum of plants, surely our 90-acre Preserve comprises its galleries. In a moderate timespan — 60 to 90 minutes depending […]
Writing an Instruction Manual for Coastal Plants
Bay cedar (Suriana maritima) is an important native coastal species. Hardy and dense, the shrub protects from shoreline erosion, provides a larval food source for two types of butterflies, and […]
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