PlantNetwork Newsletter No.13 Feb 2000

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
• Update
• Development Subcommittee
• EuroGard 2000
• Spring conference: Botanical Collections as Genetic Resources
• Annual General Meeting and nominations for the Board
• Openings
• Final thoughts
• Upcoming meetings
• Botanical Collections as Genetic Resources
• Plant Records Procedures – Accessioning a Living Collection
• Reports of meetings
• Essential Taxonomy and Nomenclature for Plant Records
• Trees
• Sward Management in Arboreta
• PlantNet and the FFI/WCMC Global Trees Campaign
• National Trust Historic Lime Nursery
• Mexican Oaks
• People: Appointments, Vacancies and Awards
• International Year of Volunteers: 2001
• News from gardens
• Ness Botanic Gardens – the future
• Gardens at Bicton College
• Kitchen Gardens of the National Trust
• Peat-free Trials in National Trust Gardens
• Fountain Society
• Conferences
• A Celebration of Pelargonium: from molecular systematics to horticulture
• Herbarium Techniques and Management
• Nature’s Treasurehouses?
• EuroGard 2000
• Biodiversity 2000
• Exhibitions
• Botanics in Focus!
• Illustrations from Flora Londiniensis
• Millennium Medicinal Plants
• Timely Cures: Pharmaceutical Plants at the Millennium
• Partnerships for People & Plants
• Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge
• Science Open Day
• Fern Flora Worldwide Threats and Responses
• Publicaitons
• Conservation
• A new catalogue of the plants growing in the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum
• Partnerships Within and Beyond the Garden
• Strategies for Survival: Ex Situ Plant Conservation
• Diary