Now plants offered
‘through UBC program

THREE NEW. or largely unknown
plant varieties will be released to
Canadian gardeners in’ April
through: the University.of | British
Columbia’s Plant. Introduction
Scheme. / 1

_The Plant Introduction. Scheme,”

the most successful program of its
kind. anywhere in the world, . pro-
vides. new. plant. . material. to
gardeners through . participating
B.C, garden centres. The program
is operated in cooperation with the
B.C, Nursery .Trades: Association,

he B.C. Society of: Landscape‘Ar-
'.,chitects and research institutions.in

> African’: perennial © with:
‘tose-pink:;, flowers, and Crispy
sWood Sage (Teucrium,

are collected: and evaluated at
UBC, : and - distributed’. across
Canada. by B.C. garden centres.
The 26. nurserics participating in
the. program | also export to
Holland, Denmark, Britain, New
Zeajand,: Germany, France, the
“United States and Japan... ° ..

In 1987, sale of the new plants
earned B.C. nursery operators an
estimated $1,9 million.’ Ko,

. . Bruce..Macdonald, ‘director of
the UBC, Botanical Garden, said
sthe. program has ‘succeeded
“beyond . our wildest. expecta-
tions."?: Se a ee,
».~ He'said five research institutions
, in- Britain, the United States and
eastern. Canada’ are “currently
, modelling © plant introduction
" schemes after the UBC program.

‘John Schroeder, president of *
Valleybrook ‘Gardens Ltd.in Ab-.

cand head ‘of the
I rades ‘Association,
“said‘the UBC. program has given

. botsford,:

“the: industry. outstanding. interna- -4[J

ional exposure: §

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