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The RHS Britain and Ireland Garden Flora Project James Armitage Principal Scientist, Horticultural Taxonomy Royal Horticultural Society [email protected]

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Page 1: The RHS Britain and Ireland Garden Flora Project€¦ · GARDEN FLORA C,YMNOSI'ERMAE; CAMBRIDGE PRESS THE EUROPEAN GARDEN FLORA CASUARINACEAETO ARISTOLOCHIACEAE CAMBRIDGE PRESS THE

The RHS Britain and Ireland Garden Flora Project

James Armitage

Principal Scientist, Horticultural Taxonomy

Royal Horticultural Society [email protected]

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What is a Flora?

An “inventory

of the plants of

a definite area” Lawrence, G.H.M. (1951) in Taxonomy of Vascular Plants

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The online Flora

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Britain’s garden flora

A garden flora to be proud of!

The most diverse garden flora on the planet

The nursery of the world

V

1,500 72,000

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Dispersed information

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Why do we need to know what garden plants we have?

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Safeguarding horticulture

Conservation

Resource management

Pests and diseases

Climate change

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Cultural significance

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Legislative imperative

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Ecology In the UK,

“only 1% of plant introductions are self-sustaining outside cultivation”, the other 99% go unrecorded in Floras

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What does the RHS intend to do?

Provide a single online resource for all the garden plants in Britain and Ireland

A database for use by a range of audiences

Products arising from this

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A process of several stages

Agree a structure for the website

Establish working framework

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Collate and harmonise

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Field work

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Engage with collaborators

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Compile keys and accounts

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Citizen Science

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Getting involved