THE BOTANIC ISSUE GARDENer 46 NOVEMBER The magazine for botanic garden professionals 2016 Theme: AMAZING interpretation ISSN 1446-2044 | www.bganz.org.au Editorial Committee CONTENTS JANELLE HATHERLY Managing Editor DALE ARVIDSSON 2 President’s view Curator, Brisbane John Sandham, BGANZ President Botanic Gardens 3 Editorial insights MARK FOUNTAIN Janelle Hatherly, Managing Editor Deputy Director Collections and Research, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Feature Interview ALAN MATCHETT 4 Outstanding in the field: Team Leader/Curator, Paul B. Redman, Executive Director Dunedin Botanic Garden Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania USA EAMONN FLANAGAN Executive Officer BGANZ What’s New SIOBHAN DUFFY 9 Botanic news: from home and abroad Graphic Designer Pollinating Great Ideas DISCLAIMER: Please note the views 12 What is a botanic garden? expressed in articles are not necessarily the views of BGANZ Council. We aim to Janelle Hatherly, Managing Editor BGANZ’s Botanic encourage a broad range of articles. Garden(er) and Editor GardenDrum BGANZ blog Feedback and comments on the newsletter and articles are welcome. 17 Buzzing into Pollinator Week Please email:
[email protected] Elizabeth Docking, Community Greening Officer, Botanic Gardens & Centennial Parklands COVER: Columbine 19 Hollows as Homes – a web-app Aquilegia vulgaris for conservation Wollongong Botanic Garden Photo credit: Alison Morgan Dr John Martin, Wildlife Ecologist Botanic Gardens & Centennial Parklands and Dr Adrian Davis, University of Sydney There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember: 21 Tales from the garden and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. ... There’s fennel for you, and columbines: Dr Richard Whitlow, Creative writer and teller of garden stories OPHELIA Hamlet Act 4, Scene 5 William Shakespeare The Hort.