PlantNetwork Newsletter No.10 Feb 1999

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 PlantNet
• The way ahead
• Publicity
• AGM and PlantNet spring meeting: 9–11 April 1999
• PlantNet Directory of Plant Collections of Britain and Ireland
• Upcoming meetings
• Topics for Modern Botanic Gardens
• PlantNet Plant Records Group - Inaugural Meeting
• Tree Planting and Establishment 
• Restoration of Plant Collections
• Fourth International Conifer Conference
• People: Honours and Appointments
• Conservation
• Conventions
• Systematics 1999
• Herbarium Techniques and Management
• News from gardens
• Eden Update
• Pastures New for the Harcourt Arboretum
• Winterbourne Botanical Centre at University of Birmingham Botanic Garden
• Plant Power Poster
• Ethnographic Research in Gardens
• Plants Introduced from Canada: can you help?
• Education and Training
• Botanic Garden Education Network
• The Power for Change: Botanic Gardens as Centres of Excellence for Education for Sustainability
• David Douglas: 1799–1834
• International botanic gardens
• Grinling Gibbons and ‘Dutch Rushes’
• Jardí Botànic de Barcelona
• Diary