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

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