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March 21, 2025March 21, 2025

Grounds Nursery Springing Into Life!

The campus is springing into life and so is the Grounds Nursery! So much excellent skilled work goes on behind the scenes; propagating and grafting […]

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November 29, 2024November 29, 2024

Donation of Aloe Vera Plants to Paignton Zoo

The Grounds team have recently donated around 30 large Aloe vera plants to Paignton Zoo for planting into their arid display glasshouse. The gardeners at […]

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November 15, 2024

What is seed saving and why is it important?

This autumn the Grounds team and budding volunteers have been seed saving from a range of the plants and trees that happily grow on our […]

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August 19, 2022

The Sunniest Sunflower!

All members of the Grounds Team took part in an in-house Sunflower growing competition this year. The Sunflowers were grown from seed and were then […]

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March 27, 2018

First Mini Harvest – Grounds Nursery Home Grown Cut Flowers

We are delighted to announce that we have our first mini harvest of Antirrhinums which have been grown in the Grounds Nursery! These flowers will […]

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