PlantNetwork Newsletter No.22 Apr 2003

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 
• Survey of skills and employment
• PlantNet meetings
• Technical Training Days 
• Conferences and workshops
• Appointments, vacancies & awards
• The Professional Gardeners’ Guild
• Congratulations!
• Can you help? 
• GIS technology in botanic gardens and plant collections
• Kunming Camellia reticulata 
• Plant records
• International Plant Exchange Network (IPEN) – a brief description
• PlantNet Plant Records Group
• Demeter Project Update
• Fuchsias in Glamorgan
• Friends and volunteers
• Friends Hugh Ingram Bursary at University of Dundee Botanic Garden
• New Volunteer Co-ordinator at RBGE
• Friends Supporting
• Sheffield Botanical Gardens
• Transformation of the Temperate House, with help from Ventnor Botanic Garden Friends’ Society
• News from gardens 
• University of Bristol Botanic Garden to Move
• Abbotsbury SubTropical Gardens
• Anniversaries
• Species Plantarum 1753
• Sir Hans Sloane 1660–1753
• Sir Joseph Paxton 1803–65
• Kew Herbarium
• Lily House at Staunton Country Park
• Edinburgh Floral Clock
• University of Birmingham Botanic Garden at Winterbourne
• Centenary of the RHS Garden Wisley
• Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum
• Education and training
• BGEN Annual conference: Wordsmithing
• Visitor and Education Pavilion at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum
• Plants, People and Science – on the wall
• Nash Conservatory Renovated at Kew
• Glass Class at St Andrews
• New Restaurant at Westonbirt
• Centre of Excellence in Horticultural Education and Training
• Rosemoor’s Log Cabin
• The Vegetable Kingdom Opens at Ryton
• Education Manager and Centre at Westonbirt
• Lantra - Working together to meet training and skills needs
• Two from Glasnevin on a Course at Kew
• Conservation
• Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
• BGCI and the Secretariat of the CBD Sign Memorandum of Understanding
• Review of Non-native Species Group
• International Agenda for Botanic Gardens
• in Conservation
• Plant Diversity Challenge
• Darwin Initiative Awards
• Go Wild In Your Garden
• Go Wild at Kew Gardens
• Wild in Your Garden – and the BBC
• National Biodiversity Network
• Botanical Collections Managers Group
• What on Earth? The Threat to the Science Underpinning Conservation
• Exhibitions, events and meetings
• DNA in the Garden
• EuroGard III: At the Edges
• BEDUCO II: For the Love of Life
• Botanic Gardens – A World of Resources and Heritage for Humankind
• What are the Interactions Between Ecocentres, Nature Conservation and Relevant Applied Scientific Research?
• Something’s Brewing at Kew
• Bonsai at Kew
• John Hutton Balfour’s Botanical Teaching Diagrams
• A Gardener’s Labyrinth: Portraits of People, Plants and Places
• Peter Randall Page Sculpture and Drawings
• Country Cures - A collection of historical natural remedies
• Eden’s Orchestra – a celebration of music and plants
• Birmingham Society of Botanical Artists
• Publications
• Diary