Gardens
What do we do
- General maintenance - mowing, strimming, hedge cutting, pruning, watering, weeding and making areas tidy
- Develop areas/landscaping - replanting borders in key locations
- Liaise with/coordinate events with external partners
- Maintain our 11,000+ trees
- Maintain highways in and around campus
- Support large construction projects, advising on landscape design and technical expertise
- Supporting the Sustainability team to develop biodiversity on campus
- Gritting during cold weather
Estates' Gardens team projects across campus
Our commitment to trees and hedgerows
Explore our Tree & Hedgerow Statement of Principles to see how the University protects and sustains its current and future tree and hedgerow stock, following best practice in arboriculture.
Celebrating our campus landscape improvements
From new wildflower meadows to lake restoration, the Gardens Team has delivered a huge range of projects to enhance biodiversity and improve outdoor spaces across campus. Here’s a snapshot of the work completed between 2020 and 2025, showing the scale, impact and care behind every planting, renovation and restoration.
7,942 m2
New wildflower habitat created
2,135
New trees
planted
1,956 m2
Lake and pond areas restored
1,468 m
New hedgerow planted
1,350 m
Hedge-laying completed
300 m2
Coppice areas renovated
285 m
Hedgerow
restored
96 m2
Rainwater harvesting
22.5 m2
New green wall created
14
Bug hotels
installed