The Central Botanical Garden of the NAS of Belarus holds the 7-th International Conference "Floriculture: History, Theory, Practice" on May 24–26, 2016. The conference is attended by over 40 scientists from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan and China. 36 botanical gardens present their materials at the conference.

Modern garden trends, tendencies of flower decoration of urban landscapes, the development of collections in botanical gardens and many other issues of selection and breeding of ornamental plants are raised at the conference.