San Diego Botanic Garden Native Plants Preservation

Two experts demonstrate their practices in this behind-the-scenes footage

Paul Redeker , music director of horticulture , and Leslie Randall , industrial plant conservator , take the air us through how they preserve natural plant habitats in Southern California . You will see which process they use to winnow out invading specie and how they replace them with works aboriginal to Southern California .

In ordering to maintain native plants , the invasive plants must first be eliminated . In addition , the indigenous plant fabric must be propagated so that native plants can be better established in the area .

Phase 1: Eliminating invasive plants

There are three invasive plants in this area :

There are three methods to carry off trespassing plant life : pulling , digging , and smother .

It is dependable to hear to off these industrial plant before they seed .

big plants that can not be dug out should be smother . dilute down some of the meridian , and then get a dark , thick plastic sheet . Cover the works , and weigh it down on the edges to keep the plastic sheet in place . After about a class , the plant should be idle .

Phase 2: Repopulating the area with native plants

plant can be propagated by using cuttings , or with seeds .

When propagating plants at the San Diego Botanic Garden , keep the cuttings in a very well - draining issue mixing made up of peat moss , pearlite , diminished black lava , and fine vermiculite .

Make a fresh cut , strip down off the low parting of the plant , sink it in root spiritualist , make a hole , place the cut into the kettle of fish , and then firm down the grime mixture around the base of the plant cutting .

Do n’t use plants that have flower bud get down .

Once a row of cutting has been plated , irrigate the cuttings at the foundation .

tag the plant . Use the scientific name of the plant , the area from which it was collected , and the ingathering date . Additionally , write down any treatment made to the press clipping so that you know which method are most successful .

In the lag , cuttings can be transfer into slightly larger plants after 6 to 8 week . Native plant can take some metre before flushing out novel roots .

Phase 3: Planting

Native press clipping should be ready to be plant within about six months to a year . set the cuttings in the fall , which is the best time to plant aborigine in Southern California .

new planted natives are flagged and given redundant fear and urine so as to ensure they successfully get constitute .

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