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Press
Media contacts, news releases, published stories
Native Plant Trust in the News
Our Media Contacts
Media Relations (Consultant) Kathryn Acerbo-Bachmann: kacerbobachmann@gmail.com
For images or permission to use images (Visual resources and Go Botany): images@NativePlantTrust.org
Media Releases from Native Plant Trust
October 10, 2024 - Native Plant Trust to honor champion of the brown ash tree with Regional Impact Award
September 25, 2024 - Native Plant Trust Announces $1M Raised in Successful Challenge Match to Save Native Plants in New England in Seed Bank
September 19, 2024 - Native Plant Trust Announces Art Opening and Talk with 2024 Visiting Artist Julie C. Baer; Registration for Fall and Winter Programs Open
August 28, 2024 - Uli Lorimer, Director of Horticulture at Native Plant Trust, named as next “Ask the Gardener” columnist for The Boston Globe
April 26, 2024 - Native Plant Trust announces ninth annual Trillium Week, May 12-19, 2024
December 13, 2023 - Native Plant Trust Appoints Tim Johnson as CEO
December 8, 2023 - Native Plant Trust Announces Retirement of Executive Director, Debbi Edelstein
September 20, 2023 - Native Plant Trust Announces Event October 28 with Diane Wilson, award-winning author of The Seed Keeper
June 13, 2023 - Native Plant Trust Announces June 21 Virtual Symposium: Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Exploring the Social History of the Outdoors
May 25, 2023 - Native Plant Trust Announces Mushroom Modulations by Christine Southworth, First in New Visiting Artist Program
May 9, 2023 - Native Plant Trust Executive Director Debbi Edelstein to receive Gold Medal on May 11 in recognition for contribution to native plants, conservation
April 27, 2023 - Native Plant Trust Announces eighth annual Trillium Week, May 8-14, 2023; Registration for Twilight Trilliums after-hours event open now
April 25, 2023 - Native Plant Trust Announces 2023 Opening of Garden in the Woods, New Visiting Artist Program; Registration for Spring/Summer Programs Open Now
Recent Media Coverage
November 29, 2024 - Director of Conservation Michael Piantedosi and Director of Horticulture Uli Lorimer discuss "what is native?" on the Native Plants, Healthy Planet podcast.
November 25, 2024 - CEO Tim Johnson appears in the Plant a Trillion Trees podcast #186.
November 20, 2024 - Boston Globe "Ask the Gardener" column (cut or leave it) by Uli Lorimer
November 13, 2024 - Fine Gardening, Let's Argue about Plants podcast #170, High-Impact Native Plants with Uli Lorimer
November 7, 2024 - Boston Globe "Ask the Gardener" column (hardy mums for late-season gardens) by Uli Lorimer
October 23, 2024 - Boston Globe "Ask the Gardener" column (saving seeds) by Uli Lorimer
October 15, 2024 - Uli Lorimer gives expert advice for Northeast gardeners in "The Best Keystone Plants for Your Region and Zone," Fine Gardening
October 9, 2024 - Boston Globe "Ask the Gardener" column (grub control, hydrangeas) by Uli Lorimer
October 7, 2024 - CEO Tim Johnson talks native seeds with Margaret Roach on awaytogarden.com.
October 2024 - Wave Hill Public Garden's Nally News interviews former Wave Hill intern Uli Lorimer.
September 27, 2024 - Gardenista blog, "Ecological Horticulture: Native Plant Trust's Tim Johnson Explains Why You Should Embrace Your Inner Ethical Radical"
September 11, 2024 - Boston Globe "Ask the Gardener" column (plant division, seed saving) by Uli Lorimer
August 28, 2024 - Boston Globe premier "Ask the Gardener" column (beech leaf disease) by Uli Lorimer
August 22, 2024 - "Talk the Talk" podcast with CEO Tim Johnson, WHMP radio, Northampton, MA
August 15, 2024 - "For Garden in the Woods Interns, Their Own Growing Seasons Are about to Begin," MetroWest Daily News
August 1, 2024 - "The Botanical Journey & Lexicon of a Caring Plantsperson, with Tim Johnson, Native Plant Trust," Cultivating Place, North Country Public Radio
July 31, 2024 - "Protecting a Tiny Wild Orchid," July 26 story from WBUR picked up on NPR's Here and Now
July 26, 2024 - "Inside a 40-year-old Effort to Protect a Tiny Wild Orchid," WBUR-FM
July 18, 2024 - "A Team Effort Helps to Save Endemic Cleft-leaved Hawthorn Tree," Vineyard Gazette
June 30, 2024 - "Hue and Cry over Heucheras," American Gardener, July-August 2024, featuring Uli Lorimer as an expert source
June 30, 2024 - "They thought this rare, tiny flower was extinct since WWI. Now it’s a symbol of hope," CNN, featuring CEO Tim Johnson's comments
June 14, 2024 - "In Vermont, a Glimpse of a Plant Last Seen a Century Ago," New York Times, with a mention of our New England Plant Conservation Program seed bank
May 29, 2024 - "Treat Your Palate and Feast Your Eyes on These Perennials," New York Times
May 25, 2024 - " The Outside Story: Jesup’s milk-vetch, a Rare Beauty," Rutland (VT) Herald, featuring Director of Conservation Michael Piantedosi
May 19, 2024 - "'Ideal' Cool Weather Proves a Blooming Bonanza," Boston Globe, featuring comments by Director of Horticulture Uli Lorimer
May 13, 2024 - "Should the Hawthorn Be Saved?" The Atlantic, featuring comments by Senior Research Botanist Arthur Haines
May 9, 2024 - "Here are the Best Green Spaces in Greater Boston and Beyond," including Garden in the Woods, in Boston.com
April 4, 2024 - Director of Horticulture Uli Lorimer recommends combinations of native plants for home gardens in Gardenista.
March 27, 2024 - Director of Horticulture Uli Lorimer suggests native plant sources in the Gardenista blog.
March 19, 2024 - Director of Conservation Michael Piantedosi discusses saving New Hampshire's rare plants with the Boston Globe.
March 18, 2024 - CEO Tim Johnson talks about bioproductive gardening with Margaret Roach on her awaytogardenpodcast.
March 14, 2024 - "The WildStory: A Podcast of Poetry & Plants," featuring Director of Horticulture Uli Lorimer and poet Lauren Camp
February 28, 2024 - "A New CEO for Native Plant Trust," Growing Greener podcast featuring CEO Tim Johnson
February 28, 2024 - '"There are species that have gone and will go extinct because of this,'" Boston Globe (boston.com)
February 7, 2024 - "Have We Saved Enough Land in the Right Places?" Public Garden Magazine, Vol. 39, Issue 1, 2024
February 6, 2024 - "Winter Embraces Garden in the Woods in Framingham," MetroWest Daily News
January 18, 2024 - "A Presentation by Native Plant Expert Uli Lorimer," Martha [Stewart] Up Close & Personal blog
January 4, 2024 - "How to Get a More Eco-friendly Yard, One Season at a Time," The Washington Post
January 2, 2024 - Book Review, The Northeast Native Plant Primer by Uli Lorimer, Garden and Yard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service
December 29, 2023 - Uli Lorimer's guest appearance on the Native Plants, Healthy Planet podcast on June 2 (see below) scored number 6 in the podcast's top 10 episodes of all time (beating Doug Tallamy). Listen to the hosts' discussion here.
December 25, 2023 - "A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Uli Lorimer on Ecological Resolutions"
November 22, 2023 - "New Map of U.S. Plant Zones Shows a Warmer Massachusetts," WBUR-FM, Boston
September 14, 2023; updated on September 17 - "Asters After Hours, fall's colorful masterpiece on display at Garden in the Woods," MetroWest Daily News
July 23, 2023 - "Uli Lorimer and His Northeast Native Plant Primer," Native Plant Podcast
June 2, 2023 - "Meet Native Plant Trust"; Native Plants, Healthy Planet podcast featuring Uli Lorimer, Pinelands Nursery, Columbus, NJ
May 12, 2023 - "Restoring a Rare Habitat to Protect an Unlikely Ecological Hero: Moths," WBUR-FM, Boston
April 20, 2023 - "Ask the Expert: How to Grow Native Plants in Containers," Uli Lorimer in Gardenista
Rare Plant Research and Recovery
Our status reports, recovery plans, and other resources
- This page contains three documents related to Flora Conservanda, plus recovery plans for 117 of New England's rarest plants. Open the corresponding green dropdown box to view and download files.
- State of the Plants technical report
- State of the Plants brief report
- Guidelines on reintroducing rare species
International and National Frameworks
Policies and strategies for plant conservation
Climate Change
Assessments, reports, and guidance for conservation strategies
- State of the World's Trees report, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (2021)
- Conserving Plant Diversity in New England (2021), a comprehensive strategy and mapping tool, by Native Plant Trust and The Nature Conservancy
- "Saving Plants as the Climate Changes," summary of Conserving Plant Diversity, excerpted from Native Plant News (Fall/Winter 2021).
- United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report (2022)
- Fourth National Climate Assessment, Vol. II (2018), Chapter 18: Northeast
- United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (2018)
- Open Space Institute Climate Guide (for land trusts)
