PlantNetwork Newsletter No.17 Jul 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
• Board meeting at Chester
• Development Subcommittee
• Conservation issues
• Workshops and meetings
• Training workshops
• Congratulations
• FFI/PlantNet conference
• Wood Recycling, Composting and Endangered Trees
• PlantNet Technical Training Days
• Cultivation and Propagation of Alpine Plants
• Cultivation and Maintenance of Glasshouse Plants
• PlantNet conference
• Design and Display of Plant Collections
• AGM
• Plant Records Workshop
• Minutes of Fifth PlantNet AGM
• New membership categories
• BGEN/PlantNet conference
• From 4 to 94. New Audiences for a New Century
• Plant records and mapping
• Locating and Mapping Plants
• BG-BASE User’s Manual
• Plant Records and Mapping at the Scott Arboretum
• Inventory in Progress at Cruickshank Botanic Garden
• Options for Managing Plant Records: card indexes to databases
• Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Catalogue of Plants 2001
• Trees
• Recent Reintroductions and Tree Establishment at Kew
• Public Access in Arboreta
• Global Trees Campaign weekend at Hilliers
• SoundWood
• A Growing Oak Collection
• An Introduction to Wood Waste in the UK
• Trees in Danger Leaflet
• Tree News Magazine
• Courses
• BSc (Hons) Management of Specialist Plant Resources at Writtle
• BSc (Hons) Plantsmanship at Scottish Agricultural College
• Summer Schools at Chelsea Physic Garden
• Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
• MA in Conservation of Landscapes and Gardens
• Appointments, vacancies and grants
• News from gardens
• Fern Collection at Brodsworth
• Cool Fernery to be Restored at Chelsea
• Indian Plant Collection at University of Birmingham Botanic Garden at Winterbourne
• Chinese Herb Garden at Bristol Botanic Garden
• Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens – Summer News
• Botanic Gardens Promoted at Gardeners’ World Live
• Dry Garden Opens at RHS Garden Hyde Hall
• Sir Joseph Banks’s Rock Garden at Chelsea
• National Trust Plant Conservation at Knightshayes
• Geological Gardens
• Fossil Tree Trunks at Syon Park
• Glass Pavilions at Sheffield Botanical Gardens
• National Trust Peat-Free Compost 
• Friends
• Members of PlantNet
• Meeting in 2002
• Friends and RBGE move closer together
• New scheme for the Friends of Ness Botanic Gardens
• Friends of Westonbirt Arboretum
• Help wanted
• Pulham rock work
• Plants for Bristol Zoo Gardens
• Seeking Support for Systematics
• Education
• Botanic Gardens Education Network
• Science
• Schools Outreach Centre at University of Manchester Botanical Experimental Grounds
• NESTA Science Education Database
• Exhibits and Packs from the BBSRC
• The Medicine Makers at Ness Botanic Gardens
• UK Science and Discovery Centre Network
• ScienceWorlds.co.uk
• Science Year 2001
• Conservation
• Strategies and Action Plans for Conservation
• Towards a Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
• Adoption of EU Biodiversity Action Plans
• BGCI/IABG European Botanic Gardens Consortium
• UK Biodiversity Action Plan
• Access to genetic resources and benefit sharing in the UK
• Planta Europa - European Plant Conservation Strategy
• International partnerships between botanic gardens
• Lijiang Botanic Garden and Research Station
• Bristol and George Botanic Gardens in Partnership
• Publications
• Conferences and exhibitions
• Species Recovery Programme - Tenth anniversary conference
• Science for Plant Conservation
• Fifth Annual Plant Group Conference - Federation of Zoological Gardens of Britain and Ireland
• Rhodo’02
• Connecting with Plants – Lessons for Life 5th BGCI International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens
• Eurogard III
• Second World Botanic Gardens Congress
• Myth & Magic
• Travelling: Sculpture and Basketry
• onetree
• Garden as Gallery
• Art in the Garden
• Diary