PlantNetwork Newsletter No.15 Dec 2000

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
• BGEN/PlantNet joint conference 2001
• From 4 to 94 - New Audiences for a New Century
• Fourth Annual General Meeting of PlantNet
• Minutes of the AGM 12 May 2000
• Appointments, Grants and Awards
• Trees
• Recent Reintroductions and Tree Establishment at Kew
• Sward Management in Arboreta
• Public Access in Arboreta
• Tree Diversity and Agroforestry on the Peruvian Amazon
• International Conifer Conservation Programme - An Irish Experience
• Plant Records
• Plant Records Procedures – Accessioning a Living Collection
• Education
• Botanic Gardens Education Network
• Publications
• Report of Botanical Collections as Genetic Resources
• Report of Friends of Botanic Gardens meeting
• Horticulture in zoos
• Dublin Zoo Doubles in Size
• Planting for Exotic Effects
• Forthcoming conferences and courses
• EuroBionet Project at RBG Edinburgh
• Garden Culture in the 21st Century
• Conservation of Wild Plants
• 4th Symposium of the European Committee for Conservation of Bryophytes
• UK Systematics Forum
• Linnean Taxonomy in the 21st Century
• Herbarium Techniques 
• Diary