PlantNetwork Newsletter No.4 August 1996

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.

• PlantNet is launched! - From the Chairman
• Executive Committee
• A strategy for plant collections and the exchange of data
• Next workshop
• Membership and participation
• PlantNet workshop
• Marketing & Retailing in your Garden
• Directory of Plant Collections in Britain and Ireland
• First European Botanic Garden Conference
• News from sites
• RBGE on TV
• Awards to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• National Botanic Garden of Wales - Work to start at Middleton Hall
• Building at Glasnevin
• People & Awards
• Hortus Britannicus
• Remarkable flowerings
• Moor Bank Garden
• Ethnobotanical collections: do you have any?
• Horticultural developments involving National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside
• The Museum Gardens in York
• The Yorkshire Gardens Trust
• Botanical Horticulture – a reply!
• Choice of Plants for Landscaping
• Update on the Fitzroya Project
• Conifer Conservation at Bedgebury
• Kilmacurragh Arboretum
• A call for Berberidopsis corallina
• Far & Wide
• Meeting reports
• Plant Collections: Their Management and Future Use
• First General Meeting of Plantnet
• Publications
• Diary