IrisBG Coffee Chats
- Cultivating Collaborative Conservation | February Coffee Chat 2025
- Combating the illegal trade of cacti and succulents | November Coffee Chat 2024
- A Director's Perspective: Plant Records Professionals Add Institutional Value | October Coffee Chat 2024
- New Features & Efficiency Tips | September Coffee Chat 2024
- Improved Record Keeping with the IrisBG - ArcGIS Mobile | August Coffee Chat 2024
- Engaging Garden Explorer Tours | May Coffee Chat 2024
IrisBG Community Spotlight
- Meet Emily Conn | Manager of Plant Records & Horticulture, Lincoln Park Zoo
- Meet Laura Civolani & Sam Gower | Plant Records Officers, Birmingham Botanical Garden
- Meet Gregory Payton | Curator of Living Collections, The Dawes Arboretum
- Meet John Bentley | President, Friends of the Melton Botanic Garden
- Meet James Miller | Plant Records Officer, Sheffield Botanical Gardens
- Meet Emily Hazell | From Birmingham Botanical Gardens to Chelsea Physics Garden
IrisBG Blog
- Growing Together: Key Takeaways from the 8th Global Botanic Garden Conference in Singapore
- Releasing a botanical collection's potential (BGCI Webinar Series: 2022-07-28:)
- Citizen Science Data: iNaturalist Observations in the ArcGIS Living Atlas
- 2024 -06 | APGA 2024: Rooted in Resilience
- 2023-06 | APGA 2023: New Horizons
- Five Reasons to Keep Plant Records
The Sustainability Index Webinar-series (with APGA)
- 2022-07-26: Energy Efficiency/ Usage | Sustainability Index Webinar
- Introducing the Public Garden Sustainability Index Webinar-series
- 2021-12-14: Business planning: Make informed sustainable decisions | Sustainability Index Webinar
- 2021-11-09: Empower and include for a better future | Sustainability Index Webinar
- 2021-10-18: Why water management matters | Sustainability Index Webinar
- 2021-09-14: Are you prepared for a natural disaster? | Sustainability Index Webinar
2020 Plant Records Conference
- Summary: Virtual 2020 Plant Records Conference
- IrisBG – What's new 2020
- Q&A: We have answered the questions you asked during the conference
- Keynote: Accumulation versus collection – documentation makes a difference | prof. Maximilian Weigend, Uni. of Bonn
- 1st challenge: Get on tour: how to design good tours [in Garden Explorer] | Åsa Krüger and Stina Weststrand, Gothenburg Botanical Garden
- 2nd challenge: Volunteers and Plant Records | Alison Vry, Westonbirt Arboretum