PlantNetwork Newsletter No.12 Nov 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
• Killarney in September
• The PlantNet Directory
• HLF Application
• Focus groups
• PlantNet spring conference and AGM
• Plant Collections as Genetic Resources
• PlantNet Directory of Botanical Collections in Britain and Ireland
• EuroGard 2000 - 2nd European Botanic Gardens Congress
• People: Appointments, Vacancies and Awards
• Conservation
• Summary of Conventions
• Compliance with the CBD
• Restoration of Plant Collections
• Plant Records
• Essential Taxonomy and Nomenclature for Plant Records
• Index of Collectors’ Codes
• Article on the importance of plant records: can you help?
• Trees
• Managing Veteran and Heritage Trees
• News from gardens
• How will our Gardens Grow? 
• ‘Garden of the Islands’ in Jersey
• Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens
• Visitor Centre at Ventnor Botanic Garden
• Peppermint Oil Repels Mosquitoes
• Bristol Zoo Gardens Funds Local Flora Conservation 
• Winterbourne Botanical Centre at University of Birmingham Botanic Garden 
• Research at the University of Manchester Botanical Chinese Medicinal Herb Garden at University of Bristol Botanic Garden
• Sorbus offer to University of Bristol Alumni
• Certificate of Voluntary Contribution at University of Exhibition of RHS Drawings in Dundee
• Progress at the National Botanic Garden of Wales
• Walled Kitchen Garden at Tatton Park
• Clumber Vineries
• Walled Garden at Wimpole Hall
• Hanbury Hall
• Ending the Use of Peat in National Trust Gardens
• Zoo Federation Plant Group
• Support for Plant Conservation
• Partnerships for People & Plants - 1st European Botanic Garden Education Congress
• PlantNet News goes North of the Arctic Circle
• Making a Difference - New South Wales Regional Botanic Gardens Inaugural Conference: August 1999
• Proceedings of the Fifth International Botanic Gardens Conservation Congress 
• Publications
• Diary