No. 31, August 2006

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Contents of issue No. 31, August 2006

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
  • Minutes of the Tenth Annual General Meeting held on 19 April 2006 at the Swallow St George Hotel, Harrogate.
  • Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC)
  • Upcoming Meetings:
    • PlantNetwork Tree Forum at Hergest Croft Garden
    • PlantNetwork Conference: Data Capture and Dissemination for Gardens and Arboreta
  • Reports of PlantNetwork Meetings
    • Sustainability of Horticultural Practices
    • Reconciling Old Collections with New Ideas
    • Garden Maintenance on a Low Budget
    • Focusing your Glasshouse Collections
    • Plant Health Guidelines booklet
  • Appointments, Awards, Staff & Training
    • Grants for Horticulturists
  • News
    • New Director at Kew in October
    • Treborth Botanic Garden
    • English Nature becomes Natural England
    • Bill Malecki
    • Historic and Botanic Garden Bursary Scheme
    • PlantNetwork Target 8 Project
    • Plant Diversity Challenge: 4 years – 16 targets – 1 challenge
    • Grow Wild to Know Wild
    • Decline in Bee and Plant Diversity
    • Wildlife Gardening Forum
    • Growing Heritage Action Plan
    • The Global Crop Diversity Trust
    • Darwin Projects
    • Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: Target 14 Workshop
    • BGCI’s Plant Search
    • Education at Castle Howard Arboretum
    • Out-of-Classroom Learning
    • Eco-Sensor Project at Glasnevin
    • Children’s Education Garden at Hilliers
    • Ty’r Blodau in Swansea Botanical Gardens
    • Savill Garden Visitor Centre
    • Jodrell Extension at Kew
    • New Buildings at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden
    • New Visitor Centre at Ness Gardens
    • Herbarium Extension in Edinburgh
    • Plant Diversity Building for Cambridge
    • Durham Botanic Garden Expands
    • Palmer’s Leys at the Harcourt Arboretum
    • Howick Arboretum Opens to the Public
    • New Bristol Botanic Garden Opens
    • Sheffield Park and Home Park Reunited
    • Hermitage Restored at Bicton Park
    • Restoration of Croome Park Landscape
    • Cragside Cascades Again
    • Wollemi Pines in Britain and Ireland
    • Do you have a healthy Leyland hedge?
    • Do you grow Melliodendron or Eucryphia?
    • Museums Without Roofs
    • Trees that Made Britain
    • Water for Life at Birmingham Botanical Gardens
    • International Climate Change Meeting
    • ‘Working with the Weather’ at Winterbourne
    • Clematis zemuensis growing on the wall of the mansion at Wakehurst Place has flowered for the first time since 1979.
    • At the National Botanic Garden of Wales, plants of Grevillea nudiflora and Banksia speciosa are in flower.
    • Plants of Lagerstroemia in Hampshire, at Hinton Ampner and the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, began flowering in late July, which is early for the UK.
    • Prairie Garden at Sheffield Botanical Gardens
    • Shetland Botanic Garden
    • Huge Orchid at Bicton Park
    • Queen Mother’s Garden in Edinburgh
    • From Wild Wood to Window Box
    • Kitchen Garden at Fulham Palace
    • National Green Roof Conference
    • Garden for the Royal College of Physicians
    • Physic Garden at Muncaster
    • New Study on CITES and Medicinal Plants
    • Kew Herbarium Catalogue Online
  • EXHIBITIONS & CONFERENCES
    • How Kew Grew
    • Soqotra – Land of the Dragon’s Blood Tree (RBG Edinburgh)
    • BA Festival of Science: Norwich Research Park
    • Sheffield Botanical Gardens: Art in the Gardens
    • Walled Kitchen Gardens Network Forum
    • Linnaeus Tercentenary 2007
    • The Nature of Success: Success for Nature: BGCI in association with the University of Oxford Botanic Garden. 6th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens
    • Fourth European Botanic Garden Congress
    • 3rd Global Botanic Gardens Congress