…up to 50 tonnes of salt and grit are used by Grounds staff to keep the campus roads and main footpaths open for students and […]
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You can take a guided tour of the Streatham Campus. Our experienced guide will lead you through the botanical gardens, past lakes and woodland, with […]
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The Grounds Team sell logs between October and March inclusive. They can either be delivered to your home or you can collect from Streatham Campus. […]
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We have non-invasive tree health detecting equipment called Picus? On this print out of a giant, mature tree in St Germans, only the smaller areas […]
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A book describing the history of the grounds of the University (published in 1969) can be read online?
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University of Exeter Grounds Team also have their own Instagram account. Some of the pictures you may have seen on here, some you won’t! Please […]
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The University manages approximately 10,000 trees on its campuses and they are all maintained by the Grounds Team’s skilled aborists.
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Many of the water features on campus, which are now valuable wildlife habitats, are man-made? This is the Lafrowda pond in October 1975, a year […]
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In the early summer months, you can enjoy our wildflower meadows at the rear of Laver, Streatham Court courtyard and at Rowancroft? There is even […]
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Biological control keeps the University’s Nursery plants free from pests and diseases. No chemicals are used.