No. 45, July 2014


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.  If you would like to receive your own copy join us.

  • From the Chairman
  • PlantNetwork Directory of Botanical Collections
  • Future meetings 2014
    • Plant Pests and Diseases
    • Rethinking Plant Records
  • Recent Past PlantNetwork Meetings
    • Managing and enhancing the visitor experience in botanic and historic gardens
    • Garden and landscape masterplanning
  • Appointments, Awards & Training
    • Royal Society makes David Rae its horticultural first
    • Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum
    • St Andrews Botanic Garden Trust
    • Ness Botanic Garden
    • RHS Plant Selection Committee
    • Threave Estate and Gardens
    • Chelsea Physic Garden
    • International Fellowship Programme at the World Forestry Centre
    • Grow careers
    • Grants for Horticulturists
    • Salaries and rates guidelines for garden staff
    • YoungHort update
  • Conservation
    • Barcode for Wildlife Project
    • First list of threatened cultivars in UK and Ireland
    • Native Plants Project at University of Dundee Botanic Garden
  • Plant Health
    • Authoritative scientific names for Plants & Fungi: and its significance to plant health
    • Solution to Oak Processionary Moth
    • Environmental Audit Committee  Fourteenth Report Invasive non-native species
  • Research
    • Japan Hotspot Project
    • Wondo Genet College Arboretum Restoration Project
  • News from Gardens
    • Westonbirt new Welcome Building
    • National Tree Collections of Scotland at Glasgow Botanic Gardens
    • Historic Cottage learning centre at the Royal
    • Rare ‘Dragon Leaf’ plant flowers at Wakehurst
    • Logan Botanic Garden green energy glasshouse
    • Threave Garden AGM trials
  • Publications
    • Letters from the golden age of British gardening
    • The New Sylva Gabriel Hemery’s
    • Scottish Gardener
    • Wild Flora Guide / Wild Flora Mixtures Maintenance Guide
    • Where Do Camels Belong? The story and science of invasive species
    • Paxton’s Protégé: The Milner White Gardening Dynasty
    • The Genus Erythronium (Botanical Magazine Monograph)
    • Blue Orchid and Big Tree: Plant Hunters William and Thomas Lobb and the Victorian Mania for the Exotic
    • The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook
  • Course, Conferences and Talks
    • HTA Garden Futures Conference
    • Capability Brown Festival 2016