The typical member is a botanic garden, seed bank or other botanical institution. BGCI members also include botanic gardens, seed banks or botanical institutions that are being established or created, with an interest in developing their activities for the purpose of plant conservation and wish to seek the benefits that BGCI membership provides.

Current BGCI members can manage their membership in Sheep, BGCI’s membership management system.

Our community, however, embraces a wider range of stakeholders, including networks of botanic gardens, associations of friends of botanic gardens and similar institutions with an interest in the work of botanic gardens in conservation. See all of our members here.

BGCI Member News

Questionairre on Victoria amazonica and V. cruziana

Francisco Lopez is a student on the Kew Diploma in Horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and is writing his final dissertation about the Giant Water Lily (Victoria amazonica and V. cruziana).

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Survey: Sansevieria collections in Botanic Gardens

I am a student on the Kew Diploma in Horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and am writing my final dissertation about Kew’s Sansevieria collection (reclassified as Dracaena).

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Dr Murphy Westwood on the Shifting Social Role of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta

Globally, at least one-fifth of the world's plant species are threatened with extinction, making the work of botanic gardens and their experts in ex situ and in situ conservation all the more vital for our shared future

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