Gardeners in Wiltshire are being invited to help conserve pollinator-friendly plants.
Plant Heritage is calling on garden enthusiasts to adopt and care for 16 pollinator-friendly plant groups currently missing from its UK-wide National Plant Collections scheme.
Gwen Hines, CEO of Plant Heritage, said: “The National Plant Collections are an amazing way to protect the UK’s favourite garden plants for the future.
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Bellflowers and catchflies are two plants on Plant Heritage’s Missing Collections 2025 list. (Image: Plant Heritage) “Through our network of dedicated volunteers, we are safeguarding 95,000 different plants, but we need to do more – especially because we are losing plants due to climate change.
“We hope to inspire more people to get involved as collection holders or to support our work in other ways.”
The plant groups on the Missing Collections 2025 list are magnets for a range of butterflies, bees and other pollinators, and play an important role in encouraging wider biodiversity to flourish.
Among the groups are campanula (bellflowers), silene (catchflies), arbutus (strawberry trees), gaillardia (blanket flowers), pittosporum (cheesewood), and Festuca.
National Plant Collections can be held by individuals, groups, or organisations such as nurseries, botanical gardens, schools, and even prisons.
Since the campaign began in 2016, 12 plant groups have been conserved through new collections, including hollyhocks and fragrant daphne.
To see the full Missing Collections 2025 list visit the Plant Heritage website.