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PlantNet - The Plant Collections Network of Britain and Ireland

Introduction

PlantNet is the national network of botanic gardens, arboreta and other documented plant collections

• promoting botanical collections in Britain and Ireland as a national resource for
• research, conservation and education

facilitating networking and training among holders of plant collections through a programme of

conferences and workshops and a regular newsletter.

PlantNet liaises with a range of national and international organisations, including the European Botanic Gardens Consortium and Botanic Gardens Conservation International.

Meetings

PlantNet organises conferences, workshops and practical staff training days. Past meetings have included:

• Locating and Mapping Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, November 2001
• Wood Recycling, Composting and Endangered Trees, Westonbirt Arboretum, August 2001
• Options for Managing Plant Records: card indexes to databases, Cambridge Botanic Garden, May 2001
• Public Access in Arboreta, Dawyck Botanic Garden, June 2001
• From 4 to 94. New Audiences for a New Century, Magdalen College, Oxford, April 2001
• Recent Reintroductions and Tree Establishment, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, March 2001
• Friends of Botanic Gardens, University of Leicester Botanic Garden, 2000
• Botanical Collections as Genetic Resources, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2000
• Restoration of Plant Collections, Killarney, 1999
• Topics for Modern Botanic Gardens, National Botanic Garden of Wales, 1999
• Plant Collections in the Twenty-first Century: CBD, CITES and Agenda 21, Ness Botanic Gardens, 1998
• A World Under Glass, Belfast Botanic Gardens, 1998
• Tender and Southern-hemisphere Plants, Ventnor Botanic Garden, Isle of Wight, 1997
• Plant Records and Databases, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 1997
• Marketing and Retailing in your Garden, Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden Wisley, 1996
• Plant Collections: Their Management and Future Use, University of Oxford Botanic Garden, 1996
• Working with Friends and Volunteers, Ness Botanic Garden, 1995
• Managing a Collection of Ericaceous Plants, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 1995
• Commercialisation: Ethics and Intellectual Property Rights, Chelsea Physic Garden, 1995

Forthcoming meetings in 2002:

• PlantNet Glasshouse Forum, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 3 April
• Design and Display of Plant Collections, RHS Garden Rosemoor, 22–24 April
• Accession Labelling, PlantNet Plant Records Group, RHS Garden Rosemoor, 25 April
• Waking a Sleeping Beauty, PlantNet Tree Forum, West Dean Arboretum, 11 June
• Careers and Training in Amenity and Botanical Horticulture, Writtle College, 17–19 September
• Supporting Botanic Gardens, Ventnor Botanic Garden, 1/2 October

Further information from

Judith Cheney, PlantNet Administrator
c/o University Computing Service
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street
Cambridge CB2 3QH
Tel & Fax 01223 763901
email: jc151@cam.ac.uk

Members

• Batsford Arboretum
• Bedgebury National Pinetum
• Belfast Botanic Gardens
• Benmore Botanic Garden
• Bicton College Garden & Arboretum
• Bicton Park Botanical Gardens
• Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses
• Bristol Zoological Gardens
• Brogdale Horticultural Trust
• Buckingham Palace Garden
• Cambridge University Botanic Garden
• Chelsea Physic Garden
• Chester Zoological Gardens
• Commonwealth Potato Collection
• Cruickshank Botanic Garden, University of Aberdeen
• Dawyck Botanic Garden
• Duthie Park Winter Garden
• Dyffryn Gardens
• Eden Project
• English Heritage
• Friends of Bristol University Botanic Garden
• Friends of Thwaite Hall Gardens, University of Hull
• Friends of Leicester University Botanic Garden
• Friends of Ventnor Botanic Garden
• Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• Glenveagh National Park
• Granada Arboretum
• Harewood House Trust
• Harris Garden, University of Reading
• Henry Doubleday Research Association
• Highgrove
• Irish Garden Plant Society
• John F Kennedy Arboretum
• Kylemore Walled Gardens
• Legoland Windsor Park
• Liverpool City Council Botanical Collection
• Living Rainforest
• Logan Botanic Garden
• Longstock Park Gardens
• Marks Hall Arboretum
• National Arboretum, Castlewellan
• National Botanic Garden of Wales
• National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
• National Trust
• National Trust for Scotland
• NCCPG
• Ness Botanic Gardens, University of Liverpool
• Newhaven Botanic Garden
• North Wales Arboretum Trust
• Oxford University Parks
• Paignton Zoological & Botanical Gardens
• Plantlife
• Portmeirion Gardens
• Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
• Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
• Royal Horticultural Society Garden, Harlow Carr
• Royal Horticultural Society Garden, Hyde Hall
• Royal Horticultural Society Garden, Rosemoor
• Royal Horticultural Society Garden, Wisley
• Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
• Sheffield Botanical Gardens
• Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum
• Staunton Country Park
• Swansea Botanic Garden, Plantasia & Clyne
• Syon Park
• Talbot Botanic Garden, Malahide
• Trebah Garden Trust
• Treborth Botanic Garden, Bangor
• Tresco Abbey Gardens
• Trinity College Botanic Garden, Dublin
• University of Birmingham Botanic Garden
• University of Bristol Botanic Garden
• University of Dundee Botanic Garden
• University of Durham Botanic Garden
• University of Hull Thwaite Gardens
• University of Leicester Botanic Garden
• University of Manchester Botanical & Exp. Grounds
• University of Oxford Botanic Garden
• Ventnor Botanic Garden
• Royal Botanic Gardens Kew at Wakehurst Place
• West Dean Gardens & Arboretum
• Westonbirt National Arboretum
• Wildscreen @Bristol
• Windsor Great Park & Savill Garden
• Yorkshire Museum Gardens

Personal members from:

• Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, Biddulph Grange, Borde Hill Gardens, Clinton-Baker Arboretum University of Hertfordshire,
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Chumleigh Gardens & Burgess Park, Craigie Horticultural Centre, Docwra’s Manor, Dublin Zoological Gardens, Far Grange Arboretum, Lacock Abbey, Kingston Maurward College, Mount Usher Gardens,
• The Place for Plants, Quinta Arboretum, St Andrews Botanic Garden, Stapeley Water Gardens, Tregothnan Garden,
• Tregrehan, Wye College National Fruit Collections

With advice and support from:

• Botanic Gardens Conservation International
• Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust