Plant Records Group

PlantNetwork Plant Records Group is the longest running forum, and addresses issues of record-keeping, data management, mapping and all matters associated with documenting plant collections. Practical workshops are arranged to allow members to meet, compare notes and discuss problems. It was formed in 1997 under the leadership of Becky Govier.

Workshops of the PlantNetwork Plant Records Group, as with the other Forum groups, are only open to members of PlantNetwork – all members of PlantNetwork are welcome to attend. There is a small charge (usually ca. £10) for attending to cover the costs of lunch.

Contact the Plant Records Group through Rupert Wilson, RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB. (rupertwilson@rhs.org.uk).

Plant Record Systems

Sheffield Botanical Gardens, 18 November 2008
A meeting devised to consider a range of databases for plant record systems (mostly Access-based or similar). Discussions about record keeping, datasharing and expertise exchange were all considered.
Includes summary from PlantNetwork Newsletter No. 37, December 2008

Practical Field Records

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, September 21 2007
This meeting was generously supported by the Garfield Weston Foundation

Electronic Data Capture and Dissemination

University of Hertfordshire, at the Science Learning Centre, Bayfordbury, 7 to 9 November 2006
A conference to share information and experience from recent advances in technology for mapping, managing and interpreting plant collections in gardens and arboreta

Plant Records for Conservation

Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses, March 2004

The Information Trail. How do you collect good data?

Westonbirt Arboretum 12 November 2002

Accession Labelling

Royal Horicultural Society Rosemoor, April 2002

Locating and Mapping Plants

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, November 2001

Options for Managing Plant Records: card indexes to databases

Cambridge Botanic Garden, May 2001

Plant records procedures – accessioning

University Botanic Garden, Winterborne, Birmingham, April 2000

Plant records

National Botanic Garden of Wales, April 1999