PlantNetwork Newsletter No.29 Nov 2005

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 PlantNetwork
• Autumn conference
• Global Partnership for Plant Conservation 
• PlantNetwork’s Target 8 Project
• Website: www.plantnetwork.org
• Hosting PlantNetwork meetings
• Upcoming meetings
• Orchid Propagation
• Sustainability of Horticultural Practices
• Conservation
• Plantnetwork Target 8 Project
• Threatened Plants in Britain
• New Threatened List for Irish Plants
• Target 8 Project at Dundee Botanic Garden
• Conservation of Meadow Clary
• Carex buxbaumii – extinct in the wild, but alive in captivity
• Saving Bromes from Extinction
• A Garden to Adopt the Deptford Pink?
• National Trust Conservation Strategy
• Flora locale Advisory Notes
• Appointments and Awards
• New Botanical Art Award in Scotland
• Diana Aitchison Fund
• Ian Leese Travel Fund
• BGEN & education
• From the Chair of BGEN
• Stimulating Plant Science Teaching
• Biodiversity Poster
• Promoting a Career in Plant Science
• Sir Harold Hillier Education Garden
• Reports of PlantNetwork Meetings
• Historic and Cultural Significance of Plants in Cultivation
• Development Plans for Arboreta: linking the past, present and future
• Propagation of Glasshouse Plants
• Reducing Risk when Importing Exotic Plants into Collections
• News from gardens
• Maple Rotary Glade at Westonbirt
• Westonbirt Anniversary Maple Cultivars
• Monocot Checklist
• Digital Automated Identification System (DAISY)
• World Grass Species Databases
• European Rose Database
• In Search of Lost Scots Roses
• Coppice at Sheffield Botanical Gardens
• Botanical Developments at Paignton Zoo
• Naturalistic Planting at Trentham
• New Tropical House for Wales
• Global Warming Research at Ness
• Map Restored at RBGE
• Report of the National Trust for Scotland Conference - Shaping Continuity: International Perspectives on Tomorrow’s Historic Gardens and Landscapes
• Fibonacci Paving at Leicester Botanic Garden
• Herbarium at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens
• Santa Claus Visits Glasnevin
• International
• Nezahat Gökyğit Botanik Bahçesi
• Global Partnership for Plant Conservation - Report of the Plants 2010 conference
• Publications
• Exhibitions & conferences
• The Echo
• Botanical Drawings Inspiring Design
• Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew
• Images of the Garden VIII
• Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
• Moss Identification
• Talks at Kew
• Growing Heritage
• Eurogard IV
• The Nature of Success: Success for Nature