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About us and the work we do

草榴社区地址 of Exeter’s 草榴社区地址 and St Luke’s Campuses are acknowledged as the most beautiful and botanically interesting of any UK University.

草榴社区地址 Campus is described by The Times as the ‘best-gardened campus in Britain’ and by The Independent as having a ‘sublime’ setting.

The 草榴社区地址 Campus is a registered botanic garden and both campuses display examples of the University’s National Collection of Azara (a South American evergreen shrub).

The area of the University's estates totals 153 hectares:  草榴社区地址 Campus 114 hectares, St Luke's Campus 8 hectares, off campus grounds 6 hectares and sports pitches at Topsham Sports Ground and Duckes Meadow Sports Ground 25 hectares. 

A team of 34 staff work on the grounds, nursery and outdoor sports facilities throughout the year. The work of the Grounds staff includes:

• the care of specialist plant collections
• botanical specimen propagation
• tree and arboricultural works
• pot and bedding plant production
• football, hockey, rugby, lacrosse, cricket and tennis playing surface maintenance
• preparing, planting and maintaining plant beds across campus
• indoor plants maintenance service
• litter management across campus
• ensuring roads and major pedestrian areas are gritted when necessary over the winter months.

We are responsible for the upkeep of all of the grounds various outdoor environments - ponds and watercourses, a cherry orchard, wildflower meadows and the wooded areas of the Taddiforde/Hoopern Valley.  We take care to protect the biodiversity of the campus.

Our team of arborists look after the 10,000 trees on campus, ensuring the trees are safe, healthy and well maintained.  We also have one of only a handful of Picus scanners in Devon.  This system takes a non-invasive scan of a cross-section of the trunk of the tree and detects areas of decay and damage which are often impossible to see from the outside.