PlantNetwork Newsletter No.24 Feb 2004

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 
• PlantNet meetings
• Plant Records for Conservation
• Tour of Gardens and Arboreta in Southwest Ireland
• Foreign Bugs - Managing pests & diseases in a world of increasing imports
• Pools of Diversity - Management and maintenance of water gardens
• Appointments, vacancies & awards
• Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
• Conference report - Implementing the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
• Plant Diversity Challenge
• Threatened Plants of Britain and Ireland
• Consultation on Target 14 of the GSPC
• Lower plants
• Elfin Forest at Benmore
• Cryptogam Reserve at Wakehurst
• Diaphanous Bladder Fern Found in Cornwall
• Victorian Fernery at Greenway
• Education and training
• Lanta
• Fundraising
• Successful Collaboration
• BGEN Training Day & AGM at Writtle
• BGEN Annual Conference: Ways into Learning
• Science Communication
• Have Fun in the Climbers & Creepers at Kew!
• New Visitor Centre at Wakehurst Place
• Shelf-Life at Chelsea
• Interpretation from scratch at the University of Dundee Botanic Garden
• Botanical Birmingham
• Fen Display at Cambridge University Botanic Garden
• Interpretation at Benmore
• News from gardens
• University of Bristol Botanic Garden - Restructuring of Core Collections
• National Botanic Garden of Wales
• Discussions continue
• Geographic Beds in Birmingham
• Mousetail at Kew
• Botanical Family Borders at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden
• The National Trust: Plant Collections Curator
• Plant Records in Bhutan
• NCCPG Demeter Project
• Digital Botanical Illustration
• Richard Spruce on the Web
• UK Biodiversity Partnership Conference
• Scottish Biodiversity Forum
• Plant Identification Courses at Cambridge
• Nature Enhanced
• Camellia, Magnolia & Rhododendron Festival
• Garden Leisure and Tourism
• Second World Botanic Gardens Congress
• Conservation of Wild Plants
• Ecology and Management of Rhododendron ponticum: invasive alien or neglected native?
• Loving the Aliens?
• Ferns for the 21st Century
• British Lichen Society Maritime Workshop
• British Bryological Society AGM and Symposium
• A Day in the Herbarium
• Herbarium Open Day
• Plants from Nepal given to the Herbarium at RBGE
• Anniversaries
• George Forrest
• William Forsyth
• 2004 International Year of Rice – at Eden
• 25 years for the Winter Garden at Cambridge University Botanic Garden 
• Exhibitions, meetings and conferences
• RHS Bicentenary 1804–2004
• Home and Garden
• Crystal Palace at Sydenham
• Publications
• Diary