From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

I'm thinking about trillions.

Prompted not just because these treasured spring of femurals are coming into their season,

but by the disturbing news in a report just published that found that 32 percent of all North American Trillium species

or varieties are threatened with extinction. My guest is Amy Highland, the Director

of Collections and Conservation Lead at Mount Cuba Center, a botanic garden and

native plant conservation nonprofit in Delaware, one of three

organizations behind the findings.

More in a moment, but first these messages.

Programming and underwriting support from Royal Botanic Gardens, publishers of

QPACA books, small gift books, illustrated from Q's vast collection of botanic

art, the most recent book, Fungai, about the strange and singular world of

mushrooms, toadstools, and their kin, in bookstores now.

Underwriting support from color blends, supplying top quality,

spring blooming, Dutch flower bulbs to landscape professionals and ambitious home gardeners.

More information on the web colorblends.com. As Mount Cuba centers director of collections and

conservation lead Amy Highland, a graduate of Purdue's Public Corticulture Program, has traveled

throughout the temperate forests of North America to find rare plants in need of conservation.

She's here today to talk trillions and also how we as gardeners can be more involved in

conservation of native plants overall.

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