PlantNetwork Newsletter No.25 Aug 2004

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
• Recent meetings and publications
• Changes to our name
• Global Strategy For Plant Conservation 
• What can YOU do for the GSPC? 
• Change of name for PlantNet
• Minutes of the 2004 AGM
• PlantNet meetings
• Establishing an Arboretum in Harsh Conditions
• Implementing the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
• Plant Records for Conservation
• Foreign Bugs: managing pests & diseases in a world of increasing imports
• Pools of Diversity: management and maintenance of water gardens
• Appointments & awards
• Career, salary and skills surveys
• Careers, occupations and skills required for the management and maintenance of botanic and heritage gardens
• The Skills Shortage in Parks: a summary of research
• Conservation
• PlantNet and Plant Diversity Challenge
• Plant Conservation on the Web
• ‘Target 8 Project’ - Threatened Species in ex situ Collections
• It’s a Wrap!
• Sustaining Biodiversity
• Taxonomy
• What can Taxonomy do for YOU?
• …and what can YOU do for Taxonomy?
• Education
• BGEN Annual conference: Ways into Learning
• News from gardens
• New Visitor Centres
• New Extensions
• New Glass
• Orchid House Redesigned at Treborth
• Peat Replacement
• Palm House Rises Again
• Filling the New Palm House
• Pulhamite Rockworks
• Elm Planting at Belfast Botanic Gardens
• Elm Map
• Westonbirt Interactive Map
• Repair at Sheffield Park
• Legal Geographies of Plant Hunting
• Treborth and the National Botanic Garden of Lesotho
•  ‘Rare Specimen’ at Castle Howard Arboretum
• Agaves in Flower!
• A Stink in Cambridge!
• Victoria Waterlily Flowers Outdoors
• Exhibitions
• Christopher Dresser 1834–1904 - A Design Revolution
• Two Centuries of Plant Introductions
• Joseph Banks and the Eton Botanists
• Global Gardeners: Plant Collecting by Veitch & Sons
• DNA in the Garden
• Sculpture in Context
• A Passion for Flowers
• New Views of Kew
• Earth from the Air
• Gardening Changing Lives - How Does Her Garden Grow?
• Courses and conferences
• Herbaceous Borders, Historic Perspectives
• Canopy Season at Eden
• Wetland Habitat Creation and Conservation
• Conservation of Wild Plants
• A Day in the Herbarium
• Botany for Beginners
• Communicate
• British Bryological Society Symposium
• LBAPs and Lead Partners Working Together
• Walled Kitchen Garden Network
• Publications
• Diary