Plant Heritage

Constitutional objectives

2.(a) The exclusively charitable objects for which the Company is established are:- (i) For the benefit of the Nation and the public as a whole to encourage the conservation of endangered or rare plants of species hybrids and cultivars which can be grown in Great Britain and their environments which have characteristics worthy of preservation in the interests of public education and in particular horticulture botany and other natural sciences medicine and environmental studies to ensure the availability of such plants to the community as a whole (ii) To conduct carry out and encourage research into rare or endangered plants or their environments and the collection and recording of such plants and their environments and all information relating to them and to publish the useful results of such research and to establish one or more sources providing plants for exhibits and for propagating material (iii) To encourage the education of the public in horticultural skills particularly in the field of plant and garden conservation and to encourage the cultivation in gardens of rare or endangered plants (iv) To encourage the introduction into the United Kingdom and the propagation of rare plants not represented in the United Kingdom (iv) To encourage the introduction, exchange and propagation of rare cultivated plants, not otherwise available in the United Kingdom within the requirements of national and international legislation