PlantNetwork Newsletter No.28 Aug 2005

PlantNetwork publishes a regular newsletter containing news and information from botanic gardens, arboreta and holders of other documented plant collections in Britain and Ireland. This newsletter is only available to members of PlantNetwork. Institutional members receive several copies of the Newsletter for circulation amongst their staff.

• From the Chairman of PlantNetwork
• Website
• Threatened species project
• Skills and training
• Historic plant collections
• Plant Health Guidelines
• Minutes of 2005 AGM
• Design and Display Booklet
• Upcoming meetings
• Historic and Cultural Significance of Plants in Cultivation
• Development Plans for Arboreta
• Propagation of Glasshouse Plants
• Plant Health and Reducing Risk
• Conservation
• Practical Plant Conservation Conference
• PlantNetwork Targets for Conservation of Threatened Species in Britain and Ireland
• Practical Horticulture Supporting Conservation
• PlantNetwork Target 8 Project
• New Red Data List for Britain
• Halting Biodiversity Loss by 2010 – joining up action
• Go Native! Planting for Biodiversity
• Important Plant Areas in the UK
• Biodiversity – what on earth is it?
• Reports of PlantNetwork Meetings 
• Tree Forum on Wilson’s Legacy
• Germination of Conifer Seeds by the Forestry Commission
• Conservation
• Project Wilson – Conserving the Heritage
• Sanctuary for Nebrodi at Dawyck
• Liriodendron Collection
• Willows in Scotland
• Verification at Westonbirt
• Staff, Awards & Skills
• Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust
• Careers, Occupations and Skills Survey
• Historic and Botanic Garden Bursary Scheme
• National Trust Move
• Grants for Horticulturists
• Churchill Fellowships
• Education & community
• BGEN Training Days with John Veverka at Chester Zoo in 2005
• Plant Cultures: an educational resource for botanic gardens
• Growing Success: Hillhead Children’s Garden
• News from gardens
• New Garden at the V&A
• Poetry Trail in Birmingham
• GreenSpace Summer Celebration
• At Belfast Botanic Garden
• Flowering of Abutilon pitcairnense at Trinity Botanic Garden
• Palms Outdoors in Ireland
• Protea Flowers Outdoors in Cambridge
• Will Rare Cycad Cone at Glasnevin?
• World Garden At Lullingstone Castle
• American Roots at Painshill
• Visits to Thenford and Broughton Grange
• Kibble Palace Coming Back
• New Alpine House at Kew
• Borde Hill is ‘Garden of the Year’
• Progress at Trentham
• Dyffryn Gardens: green light for second phase
• Garden History Institute at Hestercombe
• In Henry’s Footsteps: China 2004
• Collecting in the Antipodes
• International Year of Deserts and Desertification 2006
• Cambridge and Kroussia Sharing Skills
• Seeking CBD-friendly Case Studies
• BGCI Membership
• Signed Up to the International Agenda?
• Darwin Initiative Projects
• Publications
• Exhibitions & conferences
• Private Places: Garden Photography
• Apothecaries’ Artists
• A Feast of Fruit and Flowers 
• A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art
• Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew
• What Did the Plant Hunters Do for Us?
• BA Festival of Science
• Belize at Glasnevin
• Plants 2010 - Global Partnership for Plant Conservation
• Walled Kitchen Gardens Forum - Research, Recording and Renovation
• Rainforest Gathering
• Shaping Continuity: international perspectives on tomorrow’s historic gardens and landscapes
• Kew Series on TV