PlantNetwork Newsletter No.27 Mar 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
• Directory of Botanical Collections in Britain and Ireland
• Target 8 project
• Spring conference
• Reporting back to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
• Subscription rates for 2005/06
• PlantNetwork meetings
• AGM
• Practical Plant Conservation
• Visit to Thenford 
• Historic and Cultural Significance of Plants in Cultivation
• Conservation of Wilson’s Legacy
• Appointments, awards & skills
• Congratulations
• RHS Fellowship in Horticultural Taxonomy
• Skills and Careers Survey
• Bursary Scheme to Tackle Gardens Skills Shortage
• Grants for Horticulturists
• Conservation
• PlantNetwork Target 8 Project: Progress
• Primroses at Rosemoor: emblems of biodiversity
• The 2010 Biodiversity Target
• Wildlife Gardening Forum
• Biodiversity News
• CBD
• BGCI Plant Search
• Reports of PlantNetwork meetings
• Winter Gardens
• Conifer Propagation
• News from gardens
• Glasshouses
• Asian Kitchen Garden
• Plant Cultures
• Batsford Arboretum
• Meet The Mutants
• Belfast's Blooming Giant
• New Japanese Garden for Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses
• Old Botanic Garden Site in Edinburgh
• Seeking Weigela Cultivars
• Friends of Winterbourne Garden
• An Offer of Labels
• Education
• BGEN Training Days in 2005
• BGEN Annual Conference 2005
• BGCI 6th International Education Congress, 2006 
• Plants & Us
• Publications 
• Conferences & exhibitions
• Pastures New: renaissance of a British meadow
• Evergreen
• Art at Ingliston
• Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew
• Native Flora for the Future
• Windows on the World
• Kew at Chelsea: Message in a Bottle
• 2010 Targets and Beyond
• The Science Behind Biodiversity
• Trees in a Changing Climate
• NCCPG at BBC Gardeners’ World Live
• Zoo Horticultural Conference
• Loving the Aliens?
• The Nature of Success. Success for Nature
• Diary