Over 30 delegates met at Cambridge University Botanic Garden to get back to basics and look at records systems, share experiences and learn about recommended minimum data to enable gardens to keep useful records. Discussion focused on comparing databases, label systems, records to keep and many other topics.
Resources booklet: May 2018 Plant Records Training Day
Resources booklet for the Plant Records Training Day held on 17th May 2018 at Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Plant records: what, when, and where
Peter Atkinson, Plant Records Officer, Cambridge University Botanic Garden
The English Heritage Plant Collection: what is recorded, how and when
Christopher Weddell, Senior Gardens Advisor, English Heritage
Would a Rosa ‘by any other name… smell as sweet’?
Lauren Gardiner, Curator, Cambridge University Herbarium
Managing plant records, reflections of a data wrangler
Rupert Wilson, Principal Data Manager, Horticultural Information and Advice, RHS Garden Wisley
New Botanical Plant Labels
Helen Thompson, Senior Horticulturist, Plant Records – Gardens Department, RBGE
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Sam Brockington, Curator of Cambridge University Botanic Garden
