No. 41, March 2011

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Contents of issue No. 41, March 2011

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
  • PlantNetwork meetings in 2011
    • Propagation Challenges and Successes
    • Volunteers in Gardens and Arboreta
    • Can’t See the Trees for the Grass
  • Reports of meetings
    • Phytogeographic Planting
    • Contemporary Issues for Gardens and Plant Collections
  • Appointments, awards & training
  • Plant conservation and biodiversity
  • Plant health and invasive plants
  • BGEN & education
  • Anniversaries
    • Some Anniversaries and Years in 2011
    • Ness Celebrates Bulley Anniversary
    • Centenary Crevice Garden at Wisley
    • Kelways 160 Years
  • Other news from gardens
    • Recent Changes at Syon Park
    • Hot Rocks for Eden
    • Climate Week: 21–27 March 2011
    • Refurbishment of Glass at Glasgow
    • Plants for Dyffryn
    • Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge
    • Fuchsias at Amsterdam Botanic Garden
    • Japanese Plants in UK Gardens
    • Cultivation of Parasitic Plants
    • Medinilla Design
    • Abutilon pitcairnense Flowers at Glasnevin
    • Global Survey of ex situ Zelkova Collections
    • National Fruit Collection
    • Botanical Symbol Set and Font
    • Australasian Planting at Dundee
    • Gardens on Google Street View
    • Kilmacurragh Tasmania Expedition
    • Brodie Daffodil Conservation Project
    • Digitalis in the Harris Garden
    • International Garden Photographer of the Year
    • Grass Works
  • Publications
    • Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden 1501-1900 – By Stephen Harris (2011) Bodleian Library, 152 pages. Hardback £29.99 ISBN: 9781851243433.
    • Vincent’s Gardens. Paintings and drawings by Van Gogh – By Ralph Skea (2011) Thames & Hudson, 112 pages, hardback £12.95 ISBN 9780500238776.
    • Plant Pests – By David V Alford (2011) Collins New Naturalist, 500 pages, hardback £50, paperback £30 ISBN 978-0-00-733849-8 hardback; ISBN 978-0-00-733848-1 paperback.
    • Alpines, from Mountain to Garden - By Richard Wilford (2010) Kew Publishing, 260 pages, hardback £29. ISBN: 978 1 84246 172 3.
    • EuroGard V: Botanic Gardens in the Age of Climate Change – Biodiversity and Conservation (2011) 20 (2) Special issue, guest edited by Leif Schulman, of 18 papers from the 5th European Botanic Gardens Congress held in Finland in 2009.
    • A REDD+ Manual for Botanic Gardens – Compiled by Catrin Probert, Suzanne Sharrock & Natasha Ali (2011) Botanic Gardens Conservation International, 17 pages, paperback.
    • ISBN: 978-1-905164-34-9.
    • The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes – By Sasha Duerr (2010) Timber Press, 171 pages, paperback £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-60469-071-2
    • The Kew Plant Glossary: an illustrated dictionary of plant identification terms – By Henk J Beentje (2010) Kew Publishing, 170 pages, paperback £18. ISBN: 978 1 84246 422 9.
    • Designing with Grasses – Neil Lucas (2011) Timber Press, 276 pages, hardback £20 ISBN: 978-0-88192-938-6.
    • Phlox. A natural history and gardener’s guide – By James H Locklear (2011) £35 ISBN 978-0-88192-934-8.
    • The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, 1716–1783 – By Jane Brown (2011) Chatto & Windus, 400 pages, hardback £20 ISBN: 0701182121
    • The Founding Gardeners: How the revolutionary generation created an American Eden – By Andrea Wulf (2011) William Heinemann, 384 pages, hardback £20. ISBN: 0434019100.
    • Marianne North: a very intrepid painter – By Michelle Payne (2011) Kew Publishing, 96 pages, 190 colour botanical paintings, paperback £12. ISBN: 978 1 84246 430 4
    • Flowering Plants: a concise pictorial guide – General editor Leon Gray (2011) Kew Publishing, 288 pages, paperback £16.00. ISBN: 978 1 84246 438 0.
    • Sibbaldia. The Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture
    • Occasional Papers from the RHS Lindley Library
    • Postcards from the Lindley Library
    • Award for RHS Lindley Library
    • Digital Biodiversity Library for Europe
  • Courses, conferences & talks
    • Designed Landscapes at Risk and their Conservation
    • Tropical Plant Identification
    • Garden Organic Gardening Conference
    • Online Engagement
    • History, Development and Styles of Japanese Gardens
    • A Garden for a Thousand Years
    • Wildlife Gardening Conference
    • Materia Medica in the 19th Century: pharmacognosy, botany and empire
    • International Trials Conference 2011
    • RBGE Certificate in Practical Field Botany
    • Planet Under Pressure
    • EuroGard VI – European Botanic Gardens in a Changing World
    • Education and the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
    • Fifth Global Botanic Gardens Congress
  • Displays & exhibitions
    • A Year in Tradescants’ Garden
    • History of the Rock Garden
    • The Paradise of the World: conflict and society in the Caribbean
    • Blooming Marvellous
    • Australia Landscape
    • Baskets and Belonging: Indigenous Australian histories
    • James Duncan of Benmore
    • Kew at Chelsea
    • Picturing Plants: Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration
    • Secret Garden, Botanical Brush, From Eye to Hand and Hidden Treasure
    • Moore at Hatfield
    • Frink at Leicester
    • Atomise!
    • Private Paradise
    • First Time Out
    • Closer View: paintings, prints and micrographs
    • Botanical Watercolours
    • Images of Nature