PlantNetwork Newsletter No.20 Aug 2002

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 
• Changes to the Board
• Conferences and workshops
• Technical Training Days 
• PlantNet meetings
• Design and Display of Plant Collections
• Training in Heritage and Botanical Horticulture
• Supporting Botanic Gardens: Staff, Friends and Volunteers
• Growing and Displaying Tropical Plants
• The Information Trail - How do you collect good data?
• Accession Labelling
• Waking a Sleeping Beauty
• Appointments & Vacancies 
• BGEN & Education
• Relationships - BGEN Annual Conference 2002
• Plant Biology as Science
• National Tell A Story Day
• Heritage and history
• Heritage Parks and Gardens Register
• Kew Nominated for World Heritage Site
• Banks’s Closest Descendant Visits Castlewellan
• Gardens of Tyntesfield 
• Parks and Gardens Data Partnership
• State of the Historic Environment Report
• News from gardens
• Conifers in New Zealand
• Local Heroes at Logan
• New Space at University of Birmingham Botanic Garden
• RHS Plant Trials and Awards
• Congratulations on Show Success
• Belfast Botanic Gardens won the cup at Tatton Park Show
• BBC Gardeners’ World Live – down at the local
• Glasnevin at the Chelsea Flower Show
• New Community Garden in Glasgow
• Suggestions for Hardy Exotic Planting?
• Biodiversity Strategy for England
• The Forum
• English Nature
• Conservation
• Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
• European Plant Conservation Strategy
• Saving the Plants of Europe
• Review of ex situ Collections in Botanic Gardens
• What on Earth? The Threat to the Science
•  Underpinning Conservation
• Forthcoming meetings
• Gardens: Heaven or Hell for Wildlife?
• Plant Conservation and Grassland/Paddock Enrichment
• Science and the Quality of Life
• Plants and Animals from the Library at Blickling
• Walled Kitchen Gardens: their restoration and future role
• Benmore Moss and Lichen Sanctuary
• Mosses – Plant Identification Workshop
• Plantweave – Modern Stories, Ancient Skills
• Waterlily House Anniversary
• International Maple Symposium
• Bridging the Barriers between Man and Nature
• Women in Gardening
• 2nd Education Congress for European Botanic Gardens
• Eurogard 3
• Botanic Gardens – A World of Resources and Heritage for Humankind
• Publications
• Diary