PlantNetwork Newsletter No.14 Aug 2000

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
• Annual General Meeting
• Charity status
• Three International Documents for Botanic Gardens
• Upcoming meetings
• Friends of Botanic Gardens
• Planting for Exotic Effects
• People: Appointments, Vacancies and Awards
• International Year of Volunteers: 2001
• Trees
• Sward Management in Arboreta
• Far Grange Country Park and Arboretum
• Endangered Trees Project: PlantNet and FFI
• Action for Globally Threatened Trees
• News from Gardens  
• Lonely Sargentodoxa cuneata Seeks Male
• Glorious Grasses at Chester Zoo
• Looking for Pittosporums – can you help?
• History of Order Beds – can you help?
• Herbarium Move in Birmingham
• Developments at Glasnevin
• Broad Walk Restoration at Kew
• Thomas Coulter Plants
• Restoration of Sheffield Botanical Gardens
• Prints on Offer for Sefton Park Palm House
• Visitor Centre Opens at Ventnor Botanic Garden
• Harlow Carr Botanical Gardens Jubilee 1950–2000
• New Fruit Garden at Harlow Carr
• To the Galapagos
• To Belize
• and to Iceland and the USA
• BGEN and PlantNet
• Plant Records
• Label Printing At Glasnevin
• RHS Horticultural Database goes live online
• Exhibitions and Conferences
• Beaming Down on Botany
• EuroGard 2000
• Creating Sparks
• Medicinal and Herbal Plants
• Flora Celtica: People and Plants in Scotland
• Botanics in Focus! Exhibition for hire
• BBSRC Exhibitions on Loan to Botanic Gardens
• Courses
• International Training Courses at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
• MA/Diploma in Garden History, University of Bristol
• Conservation of Historic Gardens & Landscapes
• Publications
• Diary