Great news – a collection of 1,000 plants managed by the Irish Garden Plant Society has been awarded National Plant Collection status by Plant Heritage. Hundreds of these rare cultivars grow at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland.
Plant Heritage and the Irish Garden Plant Society both seek to rediscover and reintroduce cultivated plants into popular use by encouraging their propagation and distribution, so that they are grown as widely as possible. They work closely with other conservation bodies such as botanic gardens.Pictured: Gardener Ita Patton holds ‘Irish Mist’ at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.
“This cultivar was named from plants growing in the Aquatic House in 1990, but evidently the was in cultivation at Glasnevin for many years before it was recognised as worthy of a separate name” – Nelson, C., A Heritage of Beauty – The Garden Plants of Ireland, 2000.
Pictured: Gardener Ita Patton holds ‘Irish Mist’ at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.
