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Horticulture
HORTICULTURE DEPARTMENT Update by Jeff Payne ACLP, Certified Arborist WE - 9449A Director of Horticulture
Photo by Barefoot Productions
Meet the Boyce Thompson Arboretum's new Director of Horticulture, Jeff Payne! Jeff is pictured here with his sweet girl Rose, a brindled Mastiff rescued in the Boyce Thompson Arboretum's parking lot.
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Mexico, and Arizona in the U.S., and Coahuila, Chihuahua and Sonora in Mexico. This collection is designated for the preservation and conservation of these trees and their genetic material. We also conducted a fiveyear study on the trees, recording growth habits and growth rate, among other aspects. Let's not forget that the Arboretum has three The study also considered which of these significant nationally accredited collections trees would be an excellent selection to associated with the Plant Collections Network possibly introduce into the nursery trade. (PCN) in the American Public Gardens The second PCN collection at the Arboretum Association (APGA). is the Desert Legume collection, including The first is the Southwest Oak collection, the Desert Legume Program and seed bank encompassing taxa from the genus Quercus. in Tucson. This collection also has seed We have 114 individual trees representing secured in the U.S. Department of Agriculture 29 species in this group. The collection seed vault in Fort Collins, Colorado, and at consists of a concentration of oaks from the the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which is an desert southwest, including west Texas, New international seed bank inside the Artic Circle all of us at the Arboretum are very involved in opening the new Wallace Desert Garden, we are also working on other horticulture projects, plans, and collections.
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