PlantNetwork Newsletter No.16 Mar 2001

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
• Spring Conference and AGM 2001
• PlantNet Strategy
• Funding
• Conservation
• Expanding membership categories
• Company matters
• BGEN/PlantNet conference
• From 4 to 94 - New Audiences for a New Century
• Fifth Annual General Meeting of PlantNet
• FFI/PlantNet conference
• Wood Recycling, Composting and Endangered Trees
• Appointments, vacancies and grants
• Harnessing Business Support - Donations? Sponsorship? Commercial Partnerships
• Trees
• Recent Reintroductions and Tree Establishment at Kew
• Public Access in Arboreta
• Wood Database
• Global Trees Campaign – Update
• Wellingtonia Avenue at Biddulph Grange
• Walk in the Woods
• Tree Planting at Dunham Massey
• Plant records and labelling
• Options for Managing Plant Records: from card indexes to databases
• Label Embossing Service Offered by Tregothnan
• Data Management for Plant Collections. A Handbook of Best Practice
• Education
• Botanic Gardens Education Network
•  ‘Glassroom’ at Durham University Botanic Garden
• News from gardens 
• The Eden Project: Eden is germinating
• Certificate in Higher Education in Botanic Garden Practice
• Monkey puzzle survey
• New Species Rose Garden for Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• Benmore Botanic Garden
• Progress at the National Botanic Garden of Wales
• Backyard Biodiversity Day
• Birmingham Conservation Partnership
• National Lily Collection: a joint venture
• Greenway: a diverse plant collection
• Treborth Botanic Garden
• Restoration at Trebah Garden
• Volunteers at Down House
• International Year of Volunteers 2001
• Friends
• Publications
• National Trust Gardens Year 2001 - Rooted in history, growing for ever
• Return of the Natives
• Garden Culture in the 21st Century
• Alien Species – Friends or Foes?
• Conservation of Wild Plants
• European Committee for Conservation of Bryophytes
• Two Exhibitions on London Gardens
• From the Ground Up – three centuries of London town gardens 
• Small but Perfectly Formed – London Town Gardens, Past and Present
• The BA Festival of Science: Science and Society
• Fifth Annual Plant Group Conference
• Conferences and exhibitions
• Diary