PlantNetwork Newsletter No.30 Mar 2006

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
• Making plant conservation a reality
• How your garden can get involved
• PlantNetwork meetings in 2006
• Strategy Plan
• Upcoming Meetings
• Sustainability of Horticultural Practices
• Tree Forum at Quinta Arboretum
• Training Day at Dundee Botanic Garden
• Glasshouse Forum at Glasnevin
• Tree Forum at Hergest Croft
• Electronic Data Capture and Dissemination
• Plant health information 
• Reports of PlantNetwork Meetings
• Orchid Propagation Day
• Appointments, Awards & Training
• Cultivating Quality
• Cultivating Skills
• Historic and Botanic Gardens Bursary Scheme
• Conservation
• PlantNetwork Target 8 Project
• Plant Diversity Challenge:
• ENSCONET Website
• Vascular Plants in Britain: the new Red List and the UK BAP List
• Lower Plants and Fungi in Scotland
• Lichens at Rosemoor
• Anniversaries 
• BGEN & education
• An Introduction to Fundraising Promotion Strategies
• BGEN Resources Directory 2005
• Drawing Attractions Resource Packs
• Children’s Zone at Wakehurst Place
• Educational Activities at NBG Wales
• News from gardens
• Double Walled Garden at NBG Wales
• Order Beds at Glasnevin
• New University of Bristol Botanic Garden
• New Evolutionary Garden at Dundee
• Plants of the Avon Gorge Showcased at
• Bristol Suspension Bridge
• Back to the Garden at Chelsea Physic
• Buildings to Visit at Kew
• Avocados at West Dean
• Rhubarb
• Tea at Tregothnan
• Glasshouse Restoration at Cambridge
• Beech Hedge Centenary
• Fifty Years at Westonbirt Arboretum
• Ness & the RHS
• Changes at Winterbourne
• Glasnevin and Trinity Sign Research Agreement
• Living Medicine World Garden
• DNA Barcode for Plants
• Gorillas at Chelsea Flower Show
• Ship’s Treasure at National Archives
• Innovation in Display or Use of Water
• Speciation in Kentia Palms
• International
• USA PlantCollections Project  – a community solution to data access
• AABGA becomes APGA
• Visitors and Conservation Research in Belize
• International Biodiversity Day
• Expedition to Siberia
• Publications
• Exhibitions & conferences
• Painting the West Country House and Garden
• Nathaniel Bacon: Artist, Gentleman and Gardener
• Biodiversity: what on earth is it?
• Spirit of Trees
• Celebration of the English Garden
• No End to the Banana
• Well Fashioned: Eco Style in the UK
• Edinburgh International Science Festival
• Irish Botany – An introduction to the Irish flora
• Rungiah and Govindoo – South Indian Botanical Drawings (1825–53); Rudolf Stingel – New Work
• Jurassic Bark! Evolution of the Plant Kingdom
• Compost Demonstration Workshops
• Irish Native Plants
• Cow Parade – in Edinburgh!
• Sustainability Week
• A Celebration of China
• Scottish Biodiversity Week
• Back in Time: Heritage Year at Kew
• Exhibition by the Garden Photographers Association
• Evolution of the Walled Garden 1650–2000
• People, Science & Society
• Growing Heritage
• The Nature of Success: Success for Nature
• Fourth European Botanic Garden Congress - Botanic Gardens and the 2010 Challenge
• 3rd Global Botanic Gardens Congress -Building a sustainable future: the role of botanic gardens