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\nWe are changing this by documenting the diversity, through accurate naming and gathering of information about garden plants. The information will be used in key RHS outputs such as the horticultural database, the project to produce an online resource about the UK’s garden plants and the work of our herbarium.","image":"/getmedia/4f3298b9-8cbe-4669-8128-6a4dabe0a339/Web-Use-MAR0010051.jpg?width=940&height=631&ext=.jpg","url":"","urlLabel":""},"type":"IntroWithImage"}"> \n
\nWork to enhance our collection involves exploring new ways of preserving cultivated plant material, increasing our coverage of plants in cultivation, encouraging breeders and raisers of new plants to provide reference specimens, and digitising our specimens to make them available online.","image":"/getmedia/2bbe4cdd-ac97-4210-a53f-c16399f2edde/Web-Use-MAR0037972.jpg?width=940&height=627&ext=.jpg","url":"//www.fenfa9.com/science/conservation-biodiversity/conserving-garden-plants/rhs-herbarium","urlLabel":"Our herbarium"},"type":"IntroWithImage"}"> \n
\nWe are carrying out in-depth studies of garden plants so we can maximise their benefits and improve the environment, human health and wellbeing. ","image":"/getmedia/06221c86-59d5-4927-b0c9-11c0b95d525c/General-shot-of-different-styles-of-small-front-gardens_PUB0025202.jpg?width=940&height=627&ext=.jpg","urlLabel":"Greening Great Britian","url":"//www.fenfa9.com/science/gardening-in-a-changing-world/greening-grey-britain/urban-planting"},"type":"IntroWithImage"}"> Our most important horticultural data and information are brought together in the RHS Horticultural Database which holds everything you could ever wish to know about flowers, fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants.
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\nIt is crucial to our vision that the information we hold is safeguarded, consolidated, developed and shared. To enable our vision we are developing an inventory of cultivated plants in the UK linked to our digitised herbarium specimens we're also recording all ecosystem services provided by different cultivated plants.

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\nWe register new cultivars for some of the UK’s most popular garden and house plants, including daffodils and orchids.
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\nOur Botanists are working to get a better understanding of invasive plant species and provide advice to gardeners and the Government.","image":"/getmedia/27fc73e3-87e6-4e2f-b94a-b25fef069821/Web-Use-MAR0053294.jpg?width=940&height=627&ext=.jpg","url":"//www.fenfa9.com/science/conservation-biodiversity/invasive-plants","urlLabel":"Invasive garden plants"},"type":"IntroWithImage"}">