Pub Date : 2011-10-31DOI: 10.24823/SIBBALDIA.2011.125
K. Hughes, Kerstin Price, Ian Lawrie
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh joined the Carbon Management-Lite Programme run by the Carbon Trust in November 2009. This paper provides details of the programme and the process of writing a Carbon Management Plan.
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Pub Date : 2011-10-31DOI: 10.23823/SIBBALDIA/2011.123
M. Calonje, J. Kay, M. Griffith
Propagation of cycads from seed can aid their conservation as it helps reduce the demand for wildcollected plants. Seed-produced plants can be used for reintroduction programmes if the parent plants are from known provenance and care is taken to avoid hybridisation. This paper discusses the techniques required for successful seed propagation of cycads, including pollen collection, storage, viability testing, manual pollination, seed collection, storage and germination.
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Pub Date : 2011-10-31DOI: 10.23823/SIBBALDIA/2011.121
Gunnar Ovstebo
Spores sourced from historic herbarium specimens have been used to introduce wild-collected material to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) living plant collection. The ability of dry habitat ferns to maintain spore viability for prolonged periods makes it possible to grow plants from the historically important RBGE herbarium collections. The factors that affect the ability of spores to germinate from herbarium collections are described. Three fern species from the Pteridaceae – Actiniopteris semiflabellata, Anogramma leptophylla and Aleuritopteris scioana – which were not previously in cultivation at RBGE were germinated from herbarium material of different ages. Germination was observed from all three species. Plants produced in this experiment were accessed into the RBGE living plant collection for future horticultural research and germination trials.
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Pub Date : 2011-10-31DOI: 10.23823/SIBBALDIA/2011.130
P. Bradley, Robert Cubey
Anecdotal evidence exists at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) to suggest that branches bearing plant labels are more prone to die-back than those without labels. During 2010–2011 a preliminary study was undertaken in order to assess the accuracy of this hypothesis and to investigate the possible causes and viable alternatives. The study focused on whether there were patterns of damage with respect to label material and wire, plant species or the location of plantings. The study involved a survey of the Living Collection in the four RBGE Gardens, a web-based questionnaire sent out to Botanic Gardens Conservation International member gardens and analysis of branch material and labelling wire. This report provides the information obtained when the hypothesis was investigated and makes recommendations. An extended version, along with the data gathered, is available in the Library at RBGE (Bradley, 2011).
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Pub Date : 2011-10-31DOI: 10.23823/SIBBALDIA/2011.119
L. Schulman, M. Hällfors
Kumpula Botanic Garden was founded in 1987 on the grounds of an old manor estate. The garden is not particularly big but it was designed and subsequently realised with ambitious scientific and educational goals. It is divided into two main parts: the geobotanical garden and the garden of cultivated plants. The plants in the geobotanical garden are grouped according to their origin and are acquired according to rigorous criteria: only wild-collected plants are accepted and the source areas have been chosen on the basis of the Bioclimatic Zone System that Finnish researchers have been developing since the 1930s. The collection is thus exceptionally valuable for research and conservation. It has already been used for statistical tests on the validity of the bioclimatic vegetation scheme on which it is based. The road from an ambitious vision to a plant collection that is of a scientifically high standard yet also aesthetically pleasing has been long and winding. Here the history and design of the garden and the build-up of the plant collection is described, concluding with a brief account of the inauguration for the general public in June 2009.
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Pub Date : 2011-10-31DOI: 10.23823/SIBBALDIA/2011.124
B. Rosen, B. Jonsell
The establishment of a network of botanic gardens in the countries which surround the Baltic Sea is described. The development, funding and terms of reference for the group are described. A list of members and a map showing their locations is also included.
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Pub Date : 2011-10-31DOI: 10.23823/SIBBALDIA/2011.128
G. Stewart
Dawyck Botanic Garden was awarded a Silver accreditation in the Green Tourism Business Scheme in December 2010. The award was the result of a sustained focus to pursue an industry award as a measure of Dawyck’s achievements in sound environmental management. The award followed the construction of a new Visitor Centre in 2008 and also built upon green initiatives already achieved by staff. This case study follows the stages of the process up to the point of the award being made.
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Pub Date : 2011-10-31DOI: 10.23823/SIBBALDIA/2011.118
S. Oldfield
Environmental news is rarely positive. Habitats continue to be destroyed worldwide and species diversity continues to decline at an alarming rate. And yet species are being saved from extinction and botanic gardens are playing a key role in this task. Adding up the conservation actions of individual botanic gardens provides a good story and one that should be told more widely.
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Pub Date : 2011-10-31DOI: 10.23823/SIBBALDIA/2011.131
G. Hardy
Robert Brown and James McNab are introduced and the purposes of their journey in 1834 are explained. Extracts from the diaries written by McNab which might be of particular interest to horticulturists are reproduced. The details of the itinerary and a seed list of species collected are also included as appendices.
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Pub Date : 2010-11-13DOI: 10.23823/SIBBALDIA/2010.142
K. Frediani
Paignton Zoo has undertaken a novel project together with a multinational plant technology group to build Europe’s first vertical growing facility. The project represents the first zoo-based sustainable growing laboratory. It is an example of how zoos and botanic gardens can demonstrate sustainability to their visitors, through reducing their own impacts on the environment and by using plant-based solutions to offset the impact of anthropogenic global change on biodiversity. Urban agriculture and High Density Vertical Growing technology should be seen as a valuable element that can help to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, most specifically goal number one: to end poverty and hunger, and goal number seven: to ensure environmental sustainability by taking pressure off habitats to service unsustainable cities through agricultural domestication or otherwise unsustainable land use.
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