PlantNetwork Newsletter No.7 Feb 1998

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
• Ventnor Conference
• Directory
• Future events and development
• Directory of Plant Collections in Britain and Ireland
• PlantNet Strategy: The Way Forward
• PlantNet Conferences
• A World under Glass
• Plant Collections in the Twenty-first Century: CBD, CITES and Agenda 21
• Reports of meetings
• Tender and Southern-hemisphere Plants
• Conferences
• Fifth International Botanic Gardens Conservation Congress: Plants, People and Planet Earth – the role of botanic gardens in sustainable living
• Planta Europa: second European conference on the Conservation of Wild Plants
• Third International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants
• UK Systematics Forum - National Strategy for Systematic Biology Research
• Eduction
• Botanic Gardens Education Network
• Anniversaries in 1998
• News from sites
• Winter Garden Unveiled at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum
• Chinese Herb Garden at University of Bristol Botanic Garden
• Restoration and Regeneration of the Sheffield Botanical Gardens
• Renovation of the Bog Garden and Rock Garden at University of Oxford Botanic Garden
• New Developments at Cambridge University Botanic Garden
• Frederick Orpen Bower (1855–1948)
• Recovery and Progress at Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens
• Restoration at Dyffryn
• National Botanic Garden of Wales
• Paeonies Sought
• Irish Roses in Glasnevin and Japan
• Edinburgh’s links with Chile continue to grow
• Fauna & Flora International - Indigenous Propagation Project: an update
• Kilmacurragh
• Library and Herbarium at Glasnevin
• Botanical Art & Illustration
• Plantsman’s Days at RHS Wisley
• Lecture Tour by Dr Kingsley Dixon
• Plants in the Post 
• People & Awards
• Publications