PlantNetwork Newsletter No.9 Dec 1998

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
• The way ahead
• Hands-on
• Meetings
• Upcoming meetings
• Topics for Modern Botanic Gardens
• Restoration of Plant Collections
• Plant Records
• PlantNet Plant Records Group
• BG-Recorder2
• UK Database of Historic Parks and Gardens
• Data on Plants in Zoos
• PlantNet Directory of Plant Collections of Britain and Ireland
• Trees
• PlantNet Tree Forum: fulfilling our objectives
• Tree Planting and Establishment
• Fourth International Conifer Conference
• Tree Council TLC
• David Douglas
• Taxonomy
• Plant Names Project
• Systematics to the Fore - Web of Life
• Report of the Third International Symposium on the Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants
• Conservation
• Plant Collections in the Twenty-first Century: CBD, CITES and Agenda 21
• Fifth International Botanic Gardens Conservation Congress: Plants, People and Planet Earth – the role of botanic gardens in sustainable living
• CITES and Botanical Institutions
• People
• News from gardens
• North American Beds at Buckingham Palace
• Where have all the Franklinias gone?
• Horticultural Developments in Dublin Zoo
• Improvements for Harlow Carr Botanical Gardens
• University of Dundee Botanic Garden New Directions
• New Study Centre at Birmingham Botanical Gardens
• China and Scotland – a beneficial exchange
• Collections at Rosemoor
• Lady Anne Berry Visits RHS Rosemoor
• Horticulture For All
• Genetic Engineering Gets a Trail
• Zoo Federation Plant TAG
• The Human Touch: informal education in botanic gardens
• BGEN Annual Conference at Trinity College, Camarthen
• Landfill Tax Credits
• International gardens
• Moscow University Botanic Garden
• Frank Kingdon Ward’s Collections on Mount Victoria – where are they now?
• Publications
• Diary