We have a number of upcoming workshops for Collection Holders: SEED WORKSHOP: 15 Sept 10am-12.30pm at RHS Wisley, Surrey PHOTOGRAPHY: 28 Sept 10am-3.30pm at Holehird Gardens, Cumbria HERBARIUM: 16 Nov 10am-3.30pm at RHS Wisley, Surrey We also currently arranging workshops in Micropropagation, Botanical Art, Plant records and Plant Health, and will keep you informed when these are finalised. To book a place on …
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, …
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 …
Our Collection Holder Terry Baker (The Botanic Nursery) is currently working on a monograph of the genus Digitalis. He is also intending to build up a digital photographic database and produce herbarium specimens. To this end, he is looking for material (seeds or plants) from reliable, wild collected sources for the following species: Digitalis chalcantha Digitalis thapsi …
We are pleased to announce a series of free workshops for Collection Holders in 2017: Research Workshop: Thursday 2nd February, RHS Lindley Library, Wisley. The deadline to register for this workshop is Tuesday 10th January. See the Research Workshop agenda Social media workshop: 20th March, RHS Wisley. Herbarium Workshop: Thursday 18th May, RHS Wisley. Photography workshop: …
Readers may have already heard about Persephone, the online plant recording system developed for Plant Heritage. Around 100 collections are now recorded on the system and this is now a recommended option for recording National Collections, if the user is not already using a database (such as IrisBG, BGBase or Demeter). Use of Persephone by …
Collection Holders are now invited to apply for the 2017 Bursary, kindly provided by Brother UK Limited. The Bursary will provide grants to help improve your National Collection, in particular for (though not limited to): Assistance with research to improve the Collection Horticultural training relevant to improving the Collection Capital Projects to improve the collection Assistance …
Thanks to all the Collection Holders and Collection coordinators who attended our 2016 conference on November 23rd at RHS Wisley. The presentations and additional material from the day are now available to download, click on the images below to download the files as pdf: Speakers presentations Collection Holders presentations Additional material from the conference can …
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The National Collection Holder for Primula (British floral variants), Dr Margaret Webster is a coauthor of a landmark paper published in the latest issue of Nature Plants scientific journal: http://www.nature.com/articles/nplants2016188 Margaret has spent over 20 years collecting and researching the various floral mutants of primrose. In 2005, she submitted a PhD thesis on Floral Morphogenesis in Primula. The reproductive system of primula …
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REMINDER Directory 2017 Entry Forms Don’t forget to return your Directory 2017 Entry Form by Friday 21 October 2016. An email was sent to all Collection holders on 26 September 2016. If you are unable to find the email please send an email to membership@plantheritage.org.uk, so we can resend it to you. Many thanks to …
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