ENSURING THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANTS
Jane McGary (Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:02:26 PST)

Sylvia wrote,

college horticulture departments, other researchers, what have you,
and set up - well in advance of the need - an agreed upon place for
the care of our >pants? It's more likely to be taken seriously by
those whose job it is to be the trustee or executor if we've provided
precise and clear advance instructions and have set up our plans with
the people or institutions >who have agreed to take over our work.

I don't know whether I will still have a bulb collection at the
relevant time, but my current will specifies that it be given to a
particular, younger grower. I think this is safer than bequeathing
plants to an institution such as a botanical garden or horticulture
department, because as many of us have seen, specialist holdings in
institutions can suffer when the institution doesn't have a
specialist person in charge of them.

Jane McGary
Portland, Oregon, USA