Mission:
Collect, display, select elite plants, and educate the public on landscape plants in rural, suburban, and urban landscape situations. Four major areas of concentration have been approved: 1) to obtain, establish, maintain, expand, introduce, and evaluate collections of woody and herbaceous plant material in a landscape setting for researchers, horticulturists, landscape architects, nursery persons, educators, and the general public; 2) to document and label plant material so others can locate and utilize germplasm in the National Arboretum holdings; 3) to develop strategies and disseminate information to the nursery industry, gardeners, and the public on utilizing integrated pest management techniques in creating environmentally acceptable landscapes and; 4) to develop display gardens for the education of the public.