Presentations

Welcome and introduction

Matthew Jebb, National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin; PlantNetwork Chairman

Mixed marriages or multiculturalism: the British flora considered. A 350-year study of the flora of Cambridgeshire

Professor John Parker, Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Scottish rare plants

Heather McHaffie & David Knott, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Plantlife and Cambridge University Botanic Garden: in collaborative pursuit of Target 8

Tim Pankhurst, Plantlife Fenlands Officer

Studies in Cambridge University Botanic Garden on the impact of flora on breeding success in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and great tits (Parus major)

Julia Mackenzie, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Tour of Clare College Gardens

Steve Elstub, Head Gardener, Clare College

Magnesian limestone, meadows and woodland

Steve Ansdell, University of Durham Botanic Garden

Experimental meadows

Mima Taylor, Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield

The ever-changing landscape at Hyde Hall

James Nolan, Royal Horticultural Society Garden Hyde Hall

Meeting the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation at Harcourt Arboretum

Louise Allen & Piers Newth, University of Oxford Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum

Management and cultivation of native plant species and plant communities in a university botanic garden - aims and experiences

Nigel Brown, Treborth Botanic Garden, Bangor University

From Ben Lawers to the sea

Alasdair Hood, University of Dundee Botanic Garden

PlantNetwork Target 8 Project: progress and promotion

Matthew Jebb, PlantNetwork Chairman; & National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

The changing nature of native-plant displays

Tim Upson, Superintendent, Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Native plantings for a new botanic garden

Nick Wray, University of Bristol Botanic Garden

Development and maintenance of a native collection for display at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

Noeleen Smyth, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

Living on the Edge at the Millennium Seed Bank

David Hardman, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wakehurst Place

Using Plant Conservation Day and native plants to inspire visitors

Edwin Mole, Bristol Zoo Gardens

Wild Cornwall - Eden celebrates biodiversity

Darren Topps, Patrick Massey & Jo Thomas, Eden Project

Plants in your palm: handheld interpretation in botanic gardens

Michael Saunders & Angela McFarlane, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Visit to Kingfishers Bridge

Andrew Green, Roger Beecroft, James Cadbury, Stephen Tomkins

Native plant displays

• Benmore Botanic Garden – Rare plant Trail: Wet and Wild
• Dawyck Botanic Garden – Rare plant Trail: Cool Customers
• Logan Botanic Garden – Rare plant Trail: Local Heroes
• Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Rare plant Trail: Rock garden area for Target 8 species
• Bristol Zoo Gardens – Avon Gorge & Downs
• Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Native Display Beds
• Durham University Botanic Garden – Magnesian limestone, meadows and woodland
• Eden Project – Wild Cornwall
• National Botanic Gardens of Ireland – Native Beds
• Royal Botanic Gardens Kew – The Parterre Beds
• University of Bristol Botanic Garden – Rare and Native threatened Plants
• University of Dundee Botanic Garden – Ben Lawers to the sea

Gardens with Plans for new Native Displays

• National Botanic Gardens of Wales
• National Botanic Gardens of Ireland

The new native planting area is still being discussed at the gardens.
It will comprise a limited number of ecological habitat displays, and a pot collection which will attempt to cover as much of the flora as possible.
Habitats will include:
WOODLAND

• Atlantic Oak woodland (Sessile Oak, Holly, Arbutus) merging into a display of Alpines / Lusitanians
• Oak-Hazel (Pedunculate Oak) woodland merging into Hazel scrub, merging into Exposed calcareous rock. Burren pavement, with Dry Stone Wall (Limestone).
• Ash-hazel woodland merging into Dry calcareous grassland (Esker);calcareous scree and loose rock.
• Mixed lowland Cherry-Oak-Ash
• Willow-alder Carr (existing): Willow collection, merging into marsh.
• Birch-Pine-S.aucuparia upland woodland merging into montane heath.

WETLANDS

• Freshwater Lake Pond
• Watercourse, Riparian vegetation
• Fen Raised bog
• Blanket bog

AGM

Minutes of the 12th Annual General Meeting of PlantNetwork

held at 5.00pm on Tuesday 1 April 2008, Latimer Room, Clare College, University of Cambridge