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1 Plant Swap December 2012 saving money, reducing waste Plant Swap is a University virtual give-and-take-scheme. Plant Swap is sent out once a month. All items are free. You can swap the following in Plant Swap: Plants, shrubs, trees, tools, seeds, pots, containers, garden equipment, garden furniture and expertise Sign up to Plant Swap. kate.aydin@admin.ox.ac.uk Plant Swap rules We know you are all very busy, so we ve made some rules: Rule 1 tell Kate Aydin (kate.aydin@admin.ox.ac.uk) if your item has been taken, so she can remove it from Plant Swap promptly. Rule 2 If you tell someone you want their items, please don t let them down tell them if you change your mind / can t collect. Rule 3 If you someone and they don t get back to you it s because the item has already been taken (saves them having to answer loads of s).

2 NEW ENTRIES for December Clerodendrum trichotomum 29/11/12 Merton College has 20 Clerodendrum trichotomum (Glory trees) to give away At the moment they are just one straight stem around 1-2 feet tall We will put them into carrier bags for you Contact: Lucille (Head Gardener, Merton College) Grass (ornamental) 26/11/12 Lots of Calamagrostis x acutiflora Karl Foerster grass plants Calamagrostis are robust rhizomatous perennial grasses They form tufts of linear leaves, with erect stems bearing dense branching flowering panicles in summer Karl Foerster is a clump-forming deciduous perennial grass with flat, arching leaves to 90cm length It has bronze flowering panicles that fade to pale brown Contact: Simon Bagnall (Worcester College) simon.bagnall@worc.ox.ac.uk 2

3 PREVIOUS ENTRIES House plants Various house plants available due to moving house (dracaena marginata/cactus/spider plant) See photo below Please collect from Silvia s house in Yarnton Cyclamen Cyclamen x 1 (dark pink) Please collect from my house in Yarnton 3

4 Orchid Orchid x 1 (pink and cream) Please collect from my house in Yarnton Yucca Yucca plant x 1 Please collect from my house in Yarnton 4

5 Metal supports for grow bag canes 6 x metal supports for growbag canes (see image below) Contact: Bob Goodenough bob.goodenough@ctsu.ox.ac.uk Allotment plots Allotment plots available! Full plots and half plots Location: East Ward Allotment Association. Website: Allotments have on-site shop and a toilet Contact East Ward Allotment Association for more info or to arrange a viewing: ewaa-oxford@hotmail.co.uk 5

6 WANTED Apple seedlings / saplings I m looking for any apple seedlings/plants Contact: Lesley Algar lesley.algar@admin.ox.ac.uk Clematis or passion flowers Wanted: any cuttings from clematis or passion flower Contact: Cecilia Neilson cecilia.neilson@proctors.ox.ac.uk New plant for office The Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics are looking for a new plant Ideally size should be max. 0.7m Contact: Neil Bowerman bowerman@atm.ox.ac.uk New plants for office I m looking for office plants to make an interview room look less clinical Any unwanted plants will be given a good home Contact: Jean Christensen jean.christensen@psych.ox.ac.uk Herbs Magdalen College is looking for herb plants: Rosemary, thyme, bay, sage, mint, chives Contact: Claire Shepherd claire.shepherd@magd.ox.ac.uk Tools & gardening equipment Gardening equipment urgently needed Equipment wanted for the newly-formed OxGrow University and community allotment scheme Garden tools, wheelbarrows, wellingtons, etc anything considered Contact: Doireann Lalor oxgrow@oxfordhub.org 6

7 CARING & SHARING This page is for people to advertise if they want to swap advice or share expertise From Medical Sciences: Damion Young from Medical Sciences Division has developed a brilliant website which has free information about how to develop your allotment or veg patch. It provides advice on pest and disease control and you can even plot your veg plot on Google Maps! 7

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