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Funding Program:
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Project Title:
Public Gardens as Sentinels against Invasive Plants (PGSIP) Working Group Continuation |
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Lead State: IL Lead Organization: The Morton Arboretum |
| Undesignated Funding: $13,125 |
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Start Date: Mar-01-2019 End Date: Feb-29-2020 |
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Pests Involved: Horticultural invasive plants |
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Site/Commodity: Public gardens |
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Summary:
In March of 2018, The Morton Arboretum in partnership with the Midwest Invasive Plant Network received funding from the North Central Integrated Pest Management Center to establish a working group to address invasive plant issues at public gardens and arboreta. This working group, now formed, is called the Public Gardens as Sentinels against Invasive Plants Working Group (PGSIP Working Group). This name captures the desire of project participants for the public garden sector to lead on invasive plant issues and help prevent future invasions by tracking ornamental plants within their plant collections which are escaping cultivation on their grounds. These are often obscure species which are not widely recognized as invasive, not widely available within the nursery trade, and are not found on invasive species lists from region to region. However, spread from planting sites within the plant collections of public gardens is a possible indicator of a future invasive species. This proposal for PGSIP Working Group continuation and associated project work builds on the momentum of the last year. Our work will continue to engage constituents in the public garden sector on this issue, provide guidance to gardens that are just in the beginning stages of engaging on this issue, and will build a database and communication platform that public gardens and arboreta in the U.S. and Canada can use to share information about plant species spreading from cultivation.
Objectives: Objective 1: Develop key guidelines and recommendations for gardens to develop and share observations about plants escaping cultivation by continuing remote working group meetings Objective 2: Distribute recommendations document online and host online/webinar training Objective 3: Develop and populate a beta online database of plants escaping cultivation from public gardens using BRAHMS Online platform |
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