PlantNetwork Newsletter No.8 July 1998

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
• The way ahead
• Belfast conference
• Future events
• Upcoming meetings
• Plant Collections in the Twenty-first Century: CBD, CITES and Agenda 21
• Directories
• PlantNet Directory of Plant Collections
• New AABGA Directory of Plant Collections
• News from gardens
• Living Plant Collections: collaboration between PlantNet members
• New Future for Probus Gardens
• Tracing Standard Portfolios at the Wisley Herbarium
• Report of Workshop on Garden Records
• A Site for Endangered Conifers?
• John F Kennedy Arboretum
• Tree Management in Botanical Plant Collections
• New Medlar in Cultivation
• News from Wakehurst Place
• Egyptian plants – can you help?
• Bomarea at Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• A Caribbean Garden in Liverpool
• Azara Study
• Sheffield Botanical Gardens
• Discoveries and Requests for Staunton Country Park
• The Eden Project
• Collections at Stevens Park, Dudley
• Spear Lily Flowers in the Kibble Palace
• Conferences
• Report on the Planta Europa conference
• BGCI/IABG European Botanic Gardens Consortium
• European Threatened Plants in European Botanic Gardens
• Fifth International Botanic Gardens Conservation Congress - Plants, People and Planet Earth – the role of botanic gardens in sustainable living
• Annual Conference of the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta
• Diamond Fuchsia Festival 
• People and Awards
• Publications
• Exhibitions
• Drawing from Nature: art and illustration in the natural history sciences
• Weekend Orchid Fair at Glasgow Botanic Gardens 
• Mark Catesby’s Natural History of America: The Watercolours from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle
• Perspectives: photographic investigations of James Small, botanist
• Medicinal Plants at Moor Bank
• Art and Healing in Ghana: pictures of a journey into herbal medicine