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Raspberry and Solomon's Seal Plants (CT11) 5d - If you have raspberry plants/canes, I'm hoping for some that will be ready earlier or later than my existing one, which from memory produce in August. I'm told one could have raspberries from June to December, who knew?! Also if you have yellow raspberry canes, I'd be very happy to have a couple. Finally, if you have any spare Solomon's Seal plants, I'd love to give them a good home. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Immersion stick blender (CT11) 7d - Hi, if you have an immersion stick blender that's cluttering up your space, I'd love to give it a good home. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

rufa bamboo - clumping type (CT11) Expired 40d - This is a rufa bamboo so it clumps, rather than runs. It needs a new home - quickly so the roots don't dry out. It's heavy too 1m x 1m clump. Want to re-home it? › shop › plants › bamboo › fargeisa › fargesia-rufa Fargesia rufa - Big Plant Nursery Fargesia rufa, the Chinese Fountain Bamboo is a small to medium sized, non invasive, clump forming bamboo. Fargesia rufa has lush green leaves all year and is useful to gardeners having a dense bushy habit developing into a compact arching specimen in tight non-invasive clumps. It has rapid growth -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Wood for Outdoor Bench, Plant Labels or Plastic Cutlery (CT11) Withdrawn 40d - I need to replace a couple of planks in an outdoor garden bench. Do you have any appropriate wood that's between 1m - 2m long? If you have any plant labels that need a home, they'd be welcome here. Alternatively, if you've used some plastic cutlery and are about to throw it out, I could re-purpose them. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Ebay Packaging (CT11) Expired 40d - It's a shopping bag of brown paper, used padded envelopes and hard card envelopes. There's also something that looks like an artificial straw-like noodles to pad something. Can you make use of any of it? -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

plant cuttings/seedlings, toaster, air fryer (CT11) Gifted 64d - Cuttings are of pineapple guava [edible flowers & fruit, if you're lucky!] eleagnus ebbingei & eleagnus angustifolia - both are nitrogen-fixing and have edible berries, one in Spring and one in autumn Seedlings are tiny volunteers - honey euphorbia & large hellebore [] Air fryer is a friend's - circular with green parts so I think it's a Tefal Actifry. Toaster is Krups 2-slice, black and silver ... one slot is slightly at a slant - and it still works well. -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Electric Coffee Grinder & Embroidery Thread (CT11) Received 89d - I'd love to give your unwanted electric coffee grinder, and / or any embroidery thread a loving new home. The grinder could be specifically one for coffee or a general grinder. NB I need something to grind dry ingredients - NOT a blender. I'd be happy to receive any colour of embroidery thread. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Packing Boxes (CT11) Gifted 108d - Various sizes - see photo. Take some or all - before I squash them for recycling! -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

old pillows / ebay packaging / 4 packing boxes (CT11) Gifted 114d - Can you make use of 3 well-filled old pillows, from smoke-free home? They'd be ideal for pets. A shopping bag of padded envelopes, card envelopes, padding paper, and bubble wrap 1 medium packing box that fits around 3 boxes roughly 12 x 8 x 10 inches. [I know my hand span in inches, not cms!] -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Small Slow Cooker or Pressure Cooker - Working (CT11) Expired 185d - If you have a small slow cooker or a pressure cooker you're no longer using, my mum would love to give it a good home. If it's a slow cooker, she will need the more modern kind ie one that has an inner bowl that can be washed. Her fingers are arthritic so she doesn't feel safe washing anything very heavy. Many thanks. -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Pasta Machine (CT11) Expired 185d - If you have a pasta machine you're no longer using - and it works - I'd love to give it a new home. I'm looking for the kind that rolls the pasta dough thinly, ready to be cut. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Scoby To Make Kombucha (CT11) Gifted 206d - You can make your own scoby and mine is now big enough to divide. Would you like to give half of it a good home? It lives on sweet tea. The info is here /. Ideally you will give me your phone number when you get in touch. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = FREE, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Thai chilli plant (CT11) Gifted 224d - It's time to bring my chilli plants indoors. We had edible, small chillies this year - smaller than the bought variety ... and heavy hitters. There are still some on the plant. Do you want it give it a winter home - instructions on the internet - and have chillies earlier in 2024? Do please give me your phone number when you enquire! Thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

cuttings -viburnum bodnantense dawn, fig Bordeaux rouge, oli (CT11) Gifted 239d - Viburnum bodnantense dawn has perfumed flowers on bare branches in the winter. The fig Bordeaux Rouge does well on our south-facing wall. The olive could be used for cuttings or the leaves for tea. All plants are organic. Stick the cuttings into the ground in dappled shade, keep them moist and they may root for Spring or Autumn planting. -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Cuttings - White Currants, Perennial Calceolaria (CT11) Gifted 240d - White currant cuttings ... stick in soil & they might be rooted for Spring. Calceolaria - evergreen perennial with 3 months of bright yellow flowers. They've only just finished so I'm pruning. Would you like cuttings to grow your own? Ideally you'll give me your phone number when contacting me. Many thanks. -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

laptop bag (CT11) Received 241d - Have you got a men's laptop bag that you're no longer using? I'd love to give it a give home. It needs to have a strap to wear across the body. Any colour will do. The laptop bag will ideally be 40x30x7 cm. Many thanks. -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Organic Leaves For Tea - Lemon Verbena (CT11) Gifted 245d - The smell of the leaves is so gorgeous, and they're organic. So ... you can either come get leaves for tea, or cuttings to grow your own. I googled and one link for tea is below. Lemon verbena can grow into a big bush. I've pruned and staked mine so that it grows like a lollipop bush, at nose height. Great for smells, tea and wildlife. For your own plant, put cuttings in soil and hope some will root by Spring! I'd prefer to have your telephone number when you contact me. Many thanks / -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Ebay Packaging (CT11) Gifted 248d - A shopping bag of used bubble wrap, padded envelopes, cardboard envelopes, different types of packaging to put around fragile items, small boxes. If you're interested, please give me your phone number when you respond. Many thanks. -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Clothes Pegs (CT11) Received 249d - If you have clothes pegs doing nothing, I'd love to give them a good home. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please remember to check your account for 'Chat' messages from other members and/or site vounteers. Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

wheelchair for outdoor use (CT11) Expired 285d - Do you happen to have a wheelchair that's suitable for outdoor use by a very light person? I promise it will be given a much-loved home! Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Clove Currant Cuttings & Winter Flowering Buddleia (CT11) Gifted 289d - Clove currants, AKA buffalo currants AKA ribes odoratum ... lovely yellow flowers that smell of clove ... turn to edible berries. NB these are cuttings. Stick them in the soil and they are likely to root for autumn or Spring planting. Please give me your phone number when you contact me. Winter flowering buddleia has scented flowers. These too are cutttings and will need to be rooted. -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Cut Pieces of Mare's Tail / Horsetail - The Plant (CT11) Expired 294d - If you have any mare's tail / horsetail or know where I can get a handful, I'd be grateful. I'm after pieces of the plant to use in a garden remedy. The type I want is Equisetum arvense, an invasive, deep-rooted perennial according to the RHS ... so I want a handful to boil up, not plant! :)] Many thanks! -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Clip Lamp - Clip Needs Repair (CT11) Expired 295d - See photo - the clip has broken [piece in centre] - and we don't like the colour enough to mend it! :) If the ads are to be believed, something like gorilla glue might do the trick? Do you have a home for it? Please give me your phone number when you contact me. Thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Photo of free Clip Lamp - Clip Needs Repair (CT11)

Semi-Ripe Cuttings From Spring-Flowering Tamarisk Tree (CT11) Received 300d - If you've got a Spring-flowering tamarisk tree, now's the time to prune it. If you've got some semi-woody cuttings, I'd love to have 3 so I can propagate it. Many thanks › watch?v=vuXKk_lYuGk Tamarisk Cuttings Root in Water - YouTube It's easy and fun to grow tamarisk cuttings by simply putting them in a bottle of water for a while, and then watching the roots grow. Once water roots are developed, the cutting can be gently planted out in potting mix--without disturbing the roots. -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Red Currant, Red Gooseberry, Josterberry Cuttings (CT11) Expired 301d - Cuttings done today, Thursday. Leave them to root in the ground for Autumn or Spring planting. Do please give me your phone number when you enquire. They need to be collected ASAP. -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Organic Sage Prunings, Bare Root Plants & Cuttings (CT11) Expired 302d - A huge heap of pruned organic sage - leaves and spent flowers. Bring a bag or sack ... depending on how much you want! A couple of tomatillo cuttings - if you want to root them [I understand they have roots all along their stems, like tomatoes]. Bare root hardy geraniums - pale pink - now finished flowering. Great ground cover and edible leaves and flowers. Bare root Autumn Sedum Joy plants. Do please give me your phone number when you enquire! -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Bare Root Plants (CT11) Gifted 313d - Would you like to re-home any of these bare root, baby plants Summer Jasmine Lonicera Ritida Coronilla Glauca or Valentina [not variegated] - evergreen and winter flowering Do please give me your phone number when you contact me. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Low Growing Hardy Geranium Division (CT11) Expired 342d - If you have low-growing, small-leaved, hardy geraniums, particularly any with blue flowers or white flowers, I'd be grateful for a rooted piece. I have lots of taller types. Now I'd like some lower geraniums with smaller leaves. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

Bare Root Plants - Summer Raspberry & Aloe Vera (CT11) Gifted 344d - Approx 6 bare root summer raspberry plants [1-2 ft tall], and 2 bare root big-ish aloe vera plants. Need a good home very soon. Please give me your phone number when responding. Many thanks -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.

cuttings of calycanthus aphrodite (CT11) Gifted 361d - It's the wrong time of the year to take these cuttings. And I've done it. Would you like to root some? The bark can be used as a type of cinammon, apparently. And this is supposed to be a scented flower though I haven't yet smelled it myself. It does look gorgeous. If you want some cuttings, you need to collect ASAP. Give me your mobile number and tell me when you could collect today or tomorrow. Many thanks. › plants › 352540 › i-calycanthus-i-aphrodite › Calycanthus 'Aphrodite'|sweetshrub 'Aphrodite'/RHS Gardening Calycanthus 'Aphrodite' sweetshrub 'Aphrodite' A multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub to 3m high with oval to oblong glossy green leaves that turn yellow in autumn. Large, fragrant, deep red to purple flowers up to 10cm in diameter are borne from late spring into summer -- MODERATORS MESSAGE -- Please check the items offered are suitable before any potentially wasted journeys are undertaken. Remember EVERYTHING on Freegle must be for FREE - Freegle = Free, Giving, Locally, Easily.