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Many thanks to our Yorkshire group for the wonderful 2017 AGM, based in Harrogate, with some excellent garden visits and talks. Particular thanks go to Richard Laurence, Cathryn Denby, Dean Lockwood, Simon Crawford and Ruth Wood. Plus many thanks to Pat Cooke from Floral Tours for organising the event. The weekend…
On March 20th the first Social Media workshop for Collection Holders was held at RHS Wisley. The workshop covered a range of platforms available, with Facebook and Twitter explained in more detail, and benefits brought by social media to Collection Holders and Plant Heritage. To download a copy of the presentation, click on the image below:…
The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew have recently launched a new portal, Plants of the World Online (POWO): http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org In line with Kew’s 2015 Science Strategy, the portal aims to enable users to access information on all the world’s known seed-bearing plants by 2020. With over 8.5 million items, Kew ‘s collections represent over 95% of known…
We have a couple of remaining spaces for our Herbarium workshop to be held at RHS Wisley, Surrey, on Thursday 18th May.The workshop will take place from 10am to 4pm, with lunch and opportunities to practice with the RHS Herbarium team. To see what you can expect on the day, have a look at the blog…
Eight bursaries have been awarded this year to Collection Holders in partnership with Brother UK. Now in its ninth year, over 80 Collection Holders have benefited from the Brother Bursary – a total bursary figure of £18,000. Awards were made to assist in the areas of pest and disease management, plant display and protection, promotion,…
FruitID is a volunteer community project started in 2009 to help with the identification of heritage fruit cultivars and their conservation. The website is home to a catalogue of apple varieties, with comprehensive information and pictures: http://www.fruitid.com To help with identification, they are running a DNA Fingerprinting project in collaboration with East Malling research institute…
The RHS has published its Top 10 list of plant pests and diseases reported by gardeners to the advisory service in 2016: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/advice-blogs/help-and-advice/March-2017/2016-pest-disease-top-10 Top 10 pests: 1. Slugs/snails 2. Vine weevil 3. Fuchsia gall mite 4. Glasshouse thrips 5. Woolly aphid 6. Tortrix moths 7. Box tree moth 8. Rosemary beetle 9. Viburnum beetle 10. Ants Top…
PlantNetwork, the national network of botanic gardens, arboreta and other documented plant collections in Britain and Ireland is organising a series of events for 2017: Annual conference 2017 ‘Connecting gardens; engaging people’. – 26-27 April 2017, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Plant records training day and Mount Stuart garden visit – 3-4 May 2017, Mount Stuart Garden, Isle…
Are you interested in displaying your collection for the first time at an RHS show in 2018? The RHS offers a bursary scheme designed to help first-time exhibitors that have not staged nursery exhibits at RHS Shows before. This fund enables owners of nurseries and plant collections who wish to exhibit at an RHS Show to…
The government has indicated an intention to use the Great Repeal Bill to translate into UK law items of EU law, where applicable. However, it is important to note that until Article 50 is triggered and the withdrawal process starts, it is impossible to know with certainty what the consequences of Brexit will be on…
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/lmsu-oot012317.php The Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia has launched a new digital herbarium, featuring extensive collections of flora from Eastern Europe, Siberia and the Far East, Crimea, Caucuses, Mongolia, African and South Asian countries. At the moment the herbarium contains over 500,000 digitised specimens of 9,000 plant species. To search for specimens, please visit the herbarium website here:…
BGCI (Botanic Gardens Conservation International) have launched ThreatSearch, a new database of conservation assessments: http://www.bgci.org/threat_search.php The database contains over 242,000 conservation assessments representing over 150,000 taxa. It gives access to data from global lists (IUCN Red list, genus-specific lists) and regional ones (such as country red lists).
