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Free: pelargoniums (geraniums) Outdoor/Indoor (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Just got too many. Have different sizes. Can go outside after last frosts have gone but bring back inside in September/October depending on frost. Think these are mostly red flowering ones. Easy to look after and you can take cuttings from them easily too.

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Free: Spider plants (Loughborough LE11) Withdrawn Indoor plant. Just got too many still. Easy to look after, hard to kill. Occasionally they produce tiny white flowers but mostly they are a simple indoor foliage plant. Produces offshoots that look pretty hanging down. Will need them collected fairly quickly so do get in touch soon if you would like one.

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Free: Forsythia (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Just a baby at moment but should flower next year. Like a sunny spot. They flower on previous year's growth so are normally pruned after flowering and then you can also keep them at the height you want. But you won't of course need to prune this for a couple of years..

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Free: Newspapers (Loughborough LE11) Gifted If anyone wants newspapers for pets, animal sanctuaries, projects then let me know as I have loads at the moment but need to get rid of them soon.

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Free: Dracaena plant (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Indoor foliage plant . It was a rescue plant. It had lost it's original.middle stem but you can see from the second photo that stems are growing back! Plants can be very resilient 😃

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Free: Seed potatoes (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Just got a 4 more than I need. These are earlies and chitted so ready to plant straight away.

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Free: Rhubarb crowns (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Rhubarb just starting to grow. Good time to plant. They like deep, fertile soil in sunny spot. These are only small so probably won't do much this year I think and they say not to harvest in the first year anyway. Mine really took off in its third year! Mine grew to about 6 foot wide with leaves about 2 foot wide so look for a spot in your garden with plenty of space!!

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Free: Dracaena plants - indoor (Loughborough LE11) Gifted 3 Dracaena plants. For Indoors. Dracaenas like warmth (at least 18°C/65°F), high humidity and bright but indirect light. These are rescues but have been repotted in fresh soil, slightly bigger pots and a little fertiliser. They don't have flowers but are easy to care for foliage plants. 2 have recovered well. One seems I think to have lost the middle stalk but the rest of the leaves are fine so maybe a middle stalk will grow again! See photos.

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Free: Rose plants (Loughborough LE11) Gifted 2 available. Were labelled as red! March is s good time to plant in your garden. They have been outside so fully hardened off. They will be heavy in the pots full of soil but if you wish to take them home bare rooted just bring a plastic bag and dig out the pot leaving a good smount of soil around the root ball.

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Free: Cardboard boxes (Loughborough LE11) Gifted I have several large, strong boxes, for e.g. one is 18 by 26 by 8 inches, anoher is 23 by 15 by 11 inches. Have a look at the 3 photos. Might be useful for storage or if you moving. They have had bird food drlivered in them so pretty strong! Let me know if you would like them before recycling week next week!

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Free: Egg cups with birds painted on (Loughborough LE11) Expired Unused. 4 very pretty eggs cups in a nice box, see the 5 photos. Perhaps make a nice present for someone, a nature or bird lover? The only snag is they would have to be collected today unfortunately.

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Free: Marble rolling pin and board (Loughborough LE11) Gifted These are marble designed for pastry as the marble keeps the pastry cold to make better pastry. See the 2 photos. I don't eat much pastry these days as it is not good for me now I've had gall bladder out. The board and rolling pin are extremely heavy. Suitable for the serious pastry maker! Maybe a nice xmas present for someone.

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Free: Dracaena plants (Loughborough LE11) Gifted 3 Dracaena plants. For Indoors. Dracaenas are tropical plants, so they need warmth (at least 18°C/65°F), high humidity and bright but indirect light. These are rescues but have been repotted in fresh soil, slightly bigger pots and a little fertiliser. No flowers with them but easy to care for foliage plants. 2 have recovered well and could be given as gifts! One needs some TLC for a bit longer to grow more leaves! One is variegated, (see photos), others are the more usual dark green leaves.

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Free: Door & Window Draught Seal (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Suitable for 1 door or 2 windows. See photos for details. Not sure why I've got it. Probably left over from when I did front door.

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Free: Spider plants (Loughborough LE11) Gifted ** Update: the 2 wider leaf varieties have been promised but the rest are still available** I repotted and split my plants in August, one plant split into 3 separate ones! But it means I have twice as many plants as I need now! So if anyone would like one? I have 2 of the slightly wider leaf variety, see first photo. The rest are the usual ones. I have all different sizes, with or without babies! Easy indoor plants to look after.

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Free: Dracaena plant indoor plant (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Young rescue plant. Dracaena plants like bright indirect light. Easy indoor plant to look after. Been outside in all this rain so it is looking for a nice home inside now!

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Free: Dracaena Plants (Loughborough LE11) Gifted There are 3 available. 2 smaller kinds and one taller one which has variegated leaves. They are indoor plants, though I do put mine out from time to time in summer. They are just an easy indoor plant to have. This is what Google says about them "Dracaena benefit from bright, indirect light. If given too much sun, leaves are at risk of scorch. It's a good idea to grow them in a bathroom or kitchen for humidity. Dragon plants prefer underwatering to overwatering, so let the top few centimetres of soil dry out – test with your finger – before watering again."

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Free: Forsythia- probably! (Loughborough LE11) Gifted But of an odd one this post. I got this plant as a rescue just a twig, but nothing happened. I was convinced it was dead. I was going away for Easter didn't have time to do anything. 5 or 6 weeks later it started to grow. It's now very healthy. Unfortunately I can't be 100% sure what it is now. I am fairly certain it's forsythia as the leaves look like mine. Bit of a gamble perhaps. But I only got buddleia and forsythia so am thinking it must be the latter! Lovely flowers in spring. You usually prune after it's flowered but this I'd young and won't need pruning for a while.

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Free: Rose (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Yellow rose. Was a rescue plant that looked dead but has grown and is very healthy. Its called "Garden Princess".

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Free: Rhubarb Plants (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Had these a while but I've not been well enough to get round to putting them on Freegle. They need getting in the ground asap so they don't get pot bound and can get bigger and stronger. Rhubarb likes a sunny, fertile spot. They say not to harvest any stems in the first year so the plant can establish itself but should be good for next year!

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Free: Cardboard boxes (Loughborough LE11) Gifted ** Update ** rest of boxes now promised *** Several of these have gone but still have 3 quite big, strong ones left ** Have several strong cardboard boxes. Would be suitable for storage or if you are moving house etc. Checkout the 2 photos to see if useful to you.

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Free: Bubble wrap (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Have a roll of quite strong bubble wrap if useful to anyone.

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Free: Rhubarb Plants (Loughborough LE11) Expired Young plants just starting to grow. They like a sunny spot. They advise not to harvest any stalks in the first year so the plant can get established and to always leave a third of the stalks after that, but I'll leave that up to your will power!!! They disappear in winter and grow again in spring. It's good to spread some mulch around them just before winter starts but not over the crown itself which could rot if you do that. Mine was 3 years old last year and the leaves grew to 2 feet across and the plant was 6 feet wide. So think about that when you are deciding where to plant!!

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Free: Young Forsythia Garden Plants (Loughborough LE11) Gifted 2 very young plants, one photo shows the one just sprouting a few leaves. The second photo shows one a little more advanced with a more leaves. They need to be planted as soon as possible so they can get established before any hot weather, if we get any! I can of course gift them to separate people. They produce yellow flowers in spring around this time and you'll have probably seen loads around in flower. These probably won't flower this year as they are so young but will flower a little next year and more as they grow bigger. They like a sunny spot. They lose their leaves in winter. Usually you prune large varieties directly after flowering as they flower on the previous year's growth but these won't need pruning for a while. I believe some large varieties can grow up to to 10 ft tall if you want but you can keep them small with regular trimming.

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Free: Halogen bulb for outside light (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Found this bulb. I must have bought 2 last time I needed a new bulb. I don't need it any more as changed to a different light. It's 12 cm long. The 2nd and 3rd photos show the details on the back of the card.

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Free: Spider Plants indoor plants (Loughborough LE11) Gifted I have numerous Spider plants. They are almost impossible to kill so I have loads!!!! I have little ones, large ones, ones with trailing babies and ones without. You could Google how to look after them. The only thing I would say is that mine are in a greenhouse which is heated when temps drop at night at this time of year, so you may want to repot in fresh soil when you bring into your house to avoid any little passengers. I can do a brief check before I give you the plant and I do have a little bit of soil left over from summer so could repot a few once you've chosen the plant if you have no garden to do the repotting.

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Free: Dracaena Plants (Loughborough LE11) Gifted I have 3 Dracaena house plants, if anyone would like one. Quite easy to look after. They are all supermarket rescues about to be thrown out, but are doing well. Some care instructions below, but you can Google for more: Dracaena benefit from bright, indirect light. If given too much sun, leaves are at risk of scorch. It's a good idea to grow them in a bathroom or kitchen for humidity. Dragon plants prefer underwatering to overwatering, so let the top few centimetres of soil dry out – test with your finger – before watering again. They can grow at temps between 28 and 32C but don't let temps drop below 15C.

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Free: Scoot Fox Deterrant (Loughborough LE11) Gifted I bought this as had a fox coming round and I was worried about my cat at the time who was elderly and deaf. In the end I didn't use it as the fox stopped coming round anyway and my cat passed away eventually. I have 4 boxes with 2 sachets in each. The best before date is June 23 but may still be worth a go.

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Free: Hedgehog Food (Loughborough LE11) Gifted Packet of hedgehog food. Mine seem to have stopped coming. Not seen for ages. If anyone still has any coming round or can deliver to Barrow Hedgehog Rescue then feel free to pick up from me.

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Free: Cardboard boxes (Loughborough LE11) Gifted I have 5 quite large and strong cardboard boxes, see the 5 photos, if any use to anyone. Only thing is they need to be gone by end of this week end if possible as I'm getting the room decorated that they are in!

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