The International Bulb Society has established a Committee on Rescue and Conservation. One of our projects is to build a database of geophytic plants in cultivation. We would like to enlist the cooperation of related societies, of their committees for conservation or preservation, and in particular of their members who have collections of rare and unusual plants.
We would appreciate your bringing our program to the attention of your own committees or members concerned with preservation, propagation, or conservation of plants. We wish to establish a data bank listing which rare or unusual geophytes are in cultivation, where they are, and how many -- especially how many genetically distinct plants -- are there. This would be for the use of the organizations and groups contributing to the effort. It may have future relevance with regard to importation of plants from outside various countries.
We are pursuing this inventory of geophytes, and would appreciate input from interested parties in other organizations, such as yours, into the design, the structure, and the execution of this inventory.
Contact me by e-mail at jim@shieldsgardens.com
Last updated on 15 March 2001.