No. 40, September 2010


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 PlantNetwork
  • PlantNetwork meeting in 2010 and 2011
    • Phytogeographic Planting
    • Volunteers in Gardens and Arboreta
  • Reports of PlantNetwork meetings in 2010
  • Appointments, awards & training
    • Distance Learning: a new protocol
    • New RHS Courses
    • International Diploma in Plant Conservation Strategies
    • International Diploma in Botanic Garden Education
    • RBGE Certificate in Practical Horticulture
    • Lantra Survey on Careers and Training in Historic and Botanic Gardens
    • CABE Survey of Green Space Skills
    • Susan Pearson Bursary
    • Skills for the Future
    • European Award for Trentham
    • Kilmacurragh Registered as a Botanic Garden
    • Blue Plaques on Kew Green
    • The Queen Opens the Gateway
  • Plant conservation and biodiversity
  • Plant health and invasive plants
  • BGEN & education
    • Know Your Plants – developing skills for better science, horticulture and communication
    • New Learning Centre at Harlow Carr
    • Diploma in Environmental Land-based Studies
    • International Year of Youth
    • Opening All the Gates
  • News from gardens
    • Improved Access at Hillier Gardens
    • Show Garden from Tatton to Ness
    • Winterbourne Accredited by HTA
    • Start at the Garden of Wales
    • New Contemporary Medicinal Plant Collection at University of Oxford Botanic Garden
    • Paris – what a whopper!
    • Anne Frank’s Chestnut Tree at Batsford
    • Cedar Propagation
    • International Year of Forests 2011
    • Zelkova Conservation
    • Compost Socks in Wales
    • Sloane, Chelsea and the Caribbean
    • Ballast Seed Garden in Bristol
    • Darwin’s Plants from the Voyage of the Beagle
    • Melvill Herbarium to Wales
    • Kew Herbarium
    • Insect Pollinators Initiative
    • Bee Celebration in Bristol
    • Getting Your Garden on the National Cycle Network Map
    • Expansion of Batsford Arboretum
    • Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle
    • Diverse Dianthus
    • Nature of Birmingham Lit Up
    • LawnPaper at Blackwell
    • Wild Days Out for Treborth’s 50th
    • Chinese Medicinal Herb Garden in Bristol
    • From the Savill Garden to the Bronx via Longwood Gardens
    • New Glasshouse in Abu Dhabi
    • New Phenology Website
    • Climate Change Plant Trail
    • South American Garden at Kilmacurragh
    • Sowing New Seeds
    • Seed Cathedral at Shanghai Expo
  • Publications
    • The Gardens of English Heritage – By Gillian Mawrey and Linden Groves (2010) Frances Lincoln, 216 pages, hardback, £25, ISBN: 978 0711227712.
    • Botanic Gardens: modern-day arks – By Sara Oldfield (2010) New Holland Publishers, £24.99,
    • ISBN: 978 184773 5195
    • Floral Diagrams – ByLouis P Ronse De Craene (2010) Cambridge University Press, 441 pages, hardback £75, paperback £25. ISBN 978 0521 729451.
    • Garden Florals – By Antonia Brodie (2010) V&A Pattern series, 80 pages, £7.99.
    • A Pocket Guide to the Bumblebees of Britain and Ireland – By Bryan J Pinchen (2006) Forficula Books, paperback, £5
    • Bark: an intimate look at the World’s trees – text and photographs by Cédric Pollet (2010) Frances Lincoln, 192 pages, hardback, £30. ISBN: 978 0 7112 3137 5.
    • Planting and Maintaining a Tree Collection – By Simon Toomer (2010) Timber Press, 183 pages, hardback, £20, ISBN: 978 0 88192 930 0.
    • Conifers of the World. The complete reference – By J E Eckenwalder (2009) Timber Press, 720 pages, hardback, £45, ISBN: 978 0 88192 974 4.
    • Japanese Maples. The complete guide to selection and cultivation – By J D Vertrees & Peter Gregory, 4th edition (2009), Timber Press, hardback £35. ISBN: 978 0 88192 932 4.
    • James Duncan. An Enlightened Victorian – By Andrew M Watson (2010) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 80 pages, paperback, £8, ISBN: 978 1-906129-33-0
    • Poisonous Plants: a guide for parents & childcare providers – By Elizabeth Dauncey (2010) Kew Publishing, 180 pages, hardback, £15, ISBN 978 1 84246 406 9.
    • Thoughtful Gardening – By Ed Ikin (2010) Anova National Trust Books, 192 pages, £14.99
    • ISBN: 978 1 9054 0094 2.
    • New Journal of Botany -The journal Watsonia is to be relaunched as the New Journal of Botany.
  • Courses, conferences & talks
    • Kew Mutual Improvement Society Lectures
    • Harlow Carr 60th Anniversary Talks
    • Responding to the ‘Big Society’: working
    • effectively with your community
    • From Concept to Canopy: Trees in Time and Space
    • Opening All the Gates
    • Growing Food Building Communities
    • New Targets, New Challenges
    • Bulbs not Bollards
    • Water → Horticulture → Food
    • Management of Veteran Trees: perspectives on habitat and risk management
    • Evaluation of Ornamental Plants
  • Displays & exhibitions
    • South Africa Landscape
    • Impressionist Gardens
    • From Another Kingdom – the amazing world of fungi
    • Sir Hans Sloane: discovery, travels and chocolate
    • Amazonia
    • Going Dutch
    • Bulbmania – flowers from the Kew collection
    • The Woodlanders
    • A Taste of Autumn
    • Electric Forest at Bedgebury
    • Inside the Herbarium: an exhibition in clay and cloth