Spring 2025 A Big Welcome To Our Daisy Garland Spring Green Shoots Project 🌱 This project has been made possible through funds raised and donated by our Daisy Garland fundraisers and supporters. We are enormously grateful to each and every one of them. March What an exciting time of year! Soon tiny leaves will appear on bare branches, daffodil buds will burst into flower and the ground will be warm enough to plant those tiny fruit and flower seeds. To get the growing season underway, Jean, our lovely Family Support Assistant (pictured below), has been busy making up our Daisy Garland Grow Boxes, soon to be winding their way to families whose children are taking part in this very special project. Each box tailor-made to suit the needs of the child receiving it. We can't wait to get the growing season underway! SARA X Spring is the time of plans and projects. Leo Tolstoy And they're off!! 70 Green Shoots spring grow boxes, winding their way to families who've signed up for this year's Green Shoots Project So lots of lovely pics of our Green Shoots growers coming soon! As you can see from the pics below, Flossie, the office pooch, took great interest in this year's grow boxes. I wonder why?!! All will be revealed soon! SARA X I had a good rummage through our recycling box and found some great 'plant pots'. Tin cans really keep the soil warm and help seeds germinate. If you are going to use tin cans it's important you rinse them well with soapy water, and you disguard any rusted cans or any with sharp edges where the seal hasn't come away smoothly. Now where are those seeds... SARA X SOWING AND GROWING TIPS Basil This highly scented flavourful herb is a must for summer. Click HERE for growing tips. Ring the changes with this keto-friendly Peach Iced Tea recipe by replacing the mint with a sprig of basil - for the recipe, click HERE Beetroot This delicious sun-loving vegetable is packed with nutrients, can be used in sweet and savoury dishes and is easy to grow. Sow every few weeks for a regular supply. Click HERE for lots of beetroot info and useful growing tips. Butternut Squash This gorgeous squash with beautiful orange flesh is a tasty addition to the table. You will find lots of advice on growing by clicking HERE And a tasty Keto Cafe recipe when you click HERE Carrot Lots of sensory fun in store when you grow carrots. Who can resist running their fingers through the feathery tops and when you do be sure to notice their carroty aroma. Click HERE for lots of useful growing information. Chilli Pepper Grow Chillies on sunny windowsills, in a greenhouse, or directly in the ground. They’re also perfect for containers and their brightly-coloured fruits are a great way to brighten up conservatories or patios. Click HERE for growing tips. Cornflower Cornflower is an easy to grow wildflower that is quick to germinate and blooms in summer, bearing masses of pretty, ruffled flowers on slender wiry stems. Cornflower blooms are edible, and the petals make lovely garnishes to salads and other dishes. For growing tips click HERE Courgettes Courgettes contain very few calories and provide useful amounts of immune system-boosting vitamin C as well as significant levels of potassium, which is key to controlling blood pressure. The soluble fibre in the skin slows down digestion, and so stabilises blood sugar and insulin levels. Soluble fibre also helps prevent constipation and relieves irritable bowel symptoms. Click HERE for lots of useful advice on growing courgettes. And click HERE for our Courgette Bread recipe. For our super yummy Courgette Rosti recipe, click HERE Courgette Chip Recipe HERE Cress This tasty all-year-round Cress is fun and easy to grow. Cress is an excellent source of vitamins C and E, with high amounts of carotenoids that become vitamin A when consumed. Click HERE for growing hints and tips. Cucumber Cucumber is delicious - especially when you've grown it yourself. Cucumber has a high water content so eating them can help keep you hydrated and the fibre boost they give you helps avoid constipation. Click HERE for some top growing tips. And click HERE for a yummy keto Pickled Cucumber with Dill recipe. For our keto Tomato Soup recipe (yes it includes cucumber) click HERE Dill Dill is a member of the celery family. It can taste citrusy and slightly grassy with notes of anise (licorice) and has been used in Ayurvedic medicine since ancient times. Ayurveda is a traditional medical system that uses a holistic approach to improve physical and mental health. Find lots of useful herby growing tips HERE Forget-Me-Knot The vibrant blue flowers of Forget-Me-Knots make them a pretty choice for brightening a spring garden. They are super easy to grow, and can be grown in the ground or a container. Forget-Me-Knots are loved by bees and butterflies, and the petals are edible too - the delicate flowers are perfect for sprinkling on top of a cake or a summer drink. Click HERE for growing tips. Nasturtium This easy-to-grow plant has the prettiest flower and will look as good in the garden as it will on your plate. Growing tips and hints HERE Night Scented Stock Simple four-petalled flowers, borne on slender grey green stems with long narrow leaves, give off a strong sweet perfume in late evening, making them extremely attractive to night-flying moths. They work well in a border as well as in pots, and can be cut for indoor flower displays. The flowers of night-scented stock are edible and can be added to salads. For sowing and growing tips, click HERE Ox Eye Daisy With their bright, cheery faces who doesn't want a garden brimming with beautiful daisies. Click HERE for all your daisy tips and hints. Radish This crunchy little treat can be sown outside from as early as March in pots, window boxes or directly in the garden. They're speedy little seeds too - taking just 6-8 weeks from the time of sowing to grow a row of rosy radish. You'll find more tips on the perfect radish crop by clicking HERE And a delicious tried and tested keto radish recipe HERE Another recipe suggestion: wash a small bunch of radish and dry well before rolling each one in softened butter and sprinkling with sea salt. Happy munching! They're absolutely delicious! The butter really compliments the peppery radish. If you haven't tried this before, go on, give it a whirl! Runner Bean These delicious and fast growing beans are a must for every garden. Pop one in the ground and watch real Jack and The Beanstalk magic happen before your very eyes! For runaway success tips and hints, click HERE Spring Onion This quick growing little onion, favoured by keto cooks, can be grown in window boxes as well as in the garden. For growing tips click HERE Sunflower These sun-loving giants are guaranteed to bring a smile to every face and are a must for every garden. Click HERE for your sunflower tips and hints, and see below for some fascinating sunflower facts 🌻 Tobacco Plant (Nicotiana) These trumpet-like, night-scented flowers make tobacco plant a great choice for planting near a seating area. They're a firm favourite here at The Daisy Garland. Some varieties also attract moths for night-time pollination. For top growing tips, click HERE Tomato Seeds can be sown in a seed tray, toilet roll centre, tin can or yoghurt pot, placed on a sunny windowsill. Pot them on into a larger pot when you see 4 true leaves (jagedy-edged leaves which appear 14 - 28 days from sowing). Good growing companions are marigolds, basil, mint and chives which will help keep aphids at bay. Click HERE for expert Tomato growing advice from Thompson and Morgan. For our keto Tomato Soup recipe (which also contains cucumber) click HERE Wallflowers Wallflowers have a special place in my heart. When I catch that sweet, almost orangey, scent I am transported back to sitting on a front door step in my Nan and Granddad's garden - nostalgic memories of days gone by. Wallflowers are biennials, which means that you sow the seeds in May, they do most of their growing between May and November, they hunker down and don't do much over the winter and then, when the weather warms up in the spring, they burst into flower. Click HERE for Wallflower growing tips. Wild Flower Seeds and Seed Balls Create a flowering meadow or just a natural patch in a window box or flower garden to encourage bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects. Find out how to do this HERE And to discover how to make your own Seed Balls, click HERE Happy Sowing Everyone! Fascinating Sunflower Facts 🌻 🌻 The entirety of a sunflower is edible. Their leaves, stalks, and roots can all be used as food, and were grown in North America before other crops like corn became common. They were milled to create flour, and their seeds roasted and eaten. 🌻 Young sunflowers follow the sun all day, and then reset their position at night to be ready for sunrise. Once fully grown, they stay facing east to attract bees and other pollinators. 🌻 On average, sunflowers grow to be between 6 to 10 feet, but they can grow much taller. The tallest sunflower ever recorded was 30 feet. 🌻 Sunflowers can absorb toxins, including toxic metals and radiation. Following the nuclear disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima, scientists planted millions of sunflowers to help those areas recover. They are remarkable plants! Credits: Walking In Nature A little interlude while we're waiting for our Green Shoots 🌱 grow boxes to arrive... Spring has sprung here in Totnes! Pots filled to the brim with brown papery bulbs of all sizes last autumn are putting on quite a show as you can see from the 5 pics below. "Here are our green shoots from the Daisy Garland 's gifted bulbs 💡🌱 and a way too early woken honey bee?.. 🐝 “ Erika "Our green shoots bulbs are starting to flower." Lorraine "Lily's Winter green shoots some finally poking through. Think we also lost some with all the wet weather " Vanessa "Ventured out into the garden. It's all about balance with us. But sun's out and we have beautiful shoots 🌱 " Sadia "Just when I was almost giving up with the last set of bulbs as nothing had been growing (I think down to the storms we have had!) … we have finally got little green shoots!! " Chloe "Tallulah's beautiful bulbs from last year are now in flower " Keriann "I'd given up hope with our DG bulbs but I've found 2 shoots." Justine "A little sunshine and Jacob's Green Shoots narcissus are appearing, thank you DG 💜" Lynn "That’s just the front, there are more at the back too! The little daffodils are the cutest!" Annie "We have beautiful little daffodils and lots of buds." Rosalind "Here they are blooming! ☺️ " Erika Meet a big handful of our 2025 Green Shoots Growers opening their spring grow boxes..... "It doesn't get cuter than this Thank you sooo much our dear Daisy Garland We will be sharing more pics wearing and using all this when the big green boom begins. " Erika and Isabelle "Tahira and her sisters want to say thank you for the package. They loved it." Leni "G was very excited to open her Green Shoots box, thank you so much!" Sarah "Thank you for Gethin’s green shoots box! He had to put the T-shirt on straight away (it might be the wrong way around but he did it himself) A lovely project for the spring Thank you xxx " Helen "Thank you so much for our wonderful Green Shoots parcel which arrived this morning. Amy is delighted with her Flossie watering can. She says it's her favourite! T shirts are lovely and of course the seeds will be great. I love the little seed balls, very cute. I'm thinking they might go on our grass bank. Mark hates cutting the grass there as not only is it raised, but on a slope so we keep talking about making it into a wild flower bed!" Amy and Julie "Not the best pics but Bear was very excited to open his box and was jumping about " Francesca "Thank you so much for our wonderful green shoots parcel Teddy and his big brother Robert have already been having fun with Rex the sausage dog and we can’t wait to get growing x x x " Lauren "We received it!!! Thank you for accepting us on this project." Sadia and Nusrah "This really made Eves day after nursery, we can’t wait to get planting Thank you so much Daisy garland for the green shoots box she particularly loves the watering can " Jenny Wow wow wow just received the green shoots package. It's absolutely delightful. Lynsey xxx "Esme is delighted with her Green Shoots box thank you so much. T shirt straight on over her nightie! She’s excited to get growing and she is particularly pleased to have sweet pea seeds again as she grew so many last year. She laughed and laughed at the watering can and rushed to fill it up! Thank you. " Mary "It was quite comical last night as poppie's autistic and she loves water play, she got very excited watering plants Thank you as green shoots really is a family thing and everyone benefits.. Poppie says thank you for her T-shirt. xxxx" Claire "George is absolutely stoked with the DG Green Shoots gifts. They arrived yesterday. He was thrilled to bits with everything. He can't wait to get planting and sewing. Love Marguerite & George xxxxxx " "Oh wow thank you so much. Homeschool schedule immediately rearranged this morning for a “gardening lesson”!! Rex has also been taken for a walk around the neighbourhood Jonty appears to be establishing a Community Watering Service Jonty (and Charlotte and Archie) are absolutely DELIGHTED to be a part of the Green Shoots this year! Watch this space " Iona. "Wow! What a wonderful surprise Daniel had after tea; a knock on the door and a parcel from The Daisy Garland. He made an immediate grab for ‘Rex’ and tried to get more closely acquainted. You’ll be pleased to know I stepped in before he could bite his nose. We are going to have a lot of fun together. Thank you so very much xxxxxx" Rosalind "Thank you so much for Amy’s Green Shoots box! She can’t wait to get started " "Thank you for our green shoots package!! We have just had a lovely half hour in the garden. Rex has gone down a treat although Sandy decided that watering the patio and himself was far more fun!" Laura and Sandy "Jamesy come home from school to a special delivery think someone's excited to get mucky in the next couple of weeks thank you guys " Sarah "Clemmie was delighted with her box and in particular the dog! Thank you! " Emily "Anna opened her Green Shoots parcel today. And tomorrow we have to go to buy more flowers pots and potting soil. Thank you." Jan "Tallulah loved her green shoots parcel " Keriann "Thank you so much for our green shoots box! I had a very tired little girl after book day yesterday, but this perked her right up. Poppy has been reading the instructions on all the seeds, and Rex slept at the end of the bed last night " Hannah "Someone’s very happy with her parcel today." Lucie and Amelia "Our Narcissus bulbs have bloomed Our green shoots box has arrived, Rex tastes amazing, think it may take a while watering the seeds This is our first time growing veggies from seed, I'm sure it can't be that difficult Any hints & tips will be appreciated. Thank you so much The Daisy Garland Team " Kim “We loved receiving our green shoots box! Can’t wait to get planting! Thank you so much The Daisy Garland xx “ Ella "Thank you for Lilys lovely green shoots package. Loving Rex . Excited to have sweet peas again they grew well with our runner beans last year. Lily going to grow the beetroot for us & looking forward to doing carrots & other flowers. " Vanessa "We've received the box, thank you very much. xx " Emma "Tia was absolutely over the moon this evening when opening her box!! She is definitely recognising your magical packages The two photos of Tia in her green top is me showing her the dog watering can.. which she is currently playing with!! The dog watering can reminded us of our dog Odin - see the last photos for dog pictures x" Chloe Rothen rocking his Green Shoots T! 🌱 Thank you to everyone at Daisy Garland for the Green Shoots Project, it helps support the whole family. Bean and her sister Poppie love it, looking forward to more bonding time "Izzie was so excited to receive her box yesterday! She loves it all (including the pretty paper!). We love the cute water can ‘Rex’! Our dog was inquisitive too! The T-shirts are perfect and Theo says thank you for his and it was so sweet of you to include him. We can’t wait to get planting (and watering!). So grateful, thank you so much! Xxxx Ps. I can’t believe you do 70 of those! PPS All my little daffodil bulbs you sent have also sprung into action, I’ll send some pics! " Annie "Just look at that face. Jacob loved his Green Shoots package today. We can't wait to get planting Thank you " Lynn "Emily absolutely loves her green shoots box and can't wait to start growing more things. Thank you very much The Daisy Garland. She is extra excited about getting her very own green shoots t-shirt and has worn it to bed and wants to take it to school tomorrow " Sarah "Thank you! I warned Isabelle it wasn't food this time and she was very happy!" Sarah "We began our sowing season with tomatoes . I did it this way last year and it worked really well. You just need make sure the tissue paper does not dry out and keep them some where warm.The fresh seeds (from the last season) can germinate within a day or two. As soon as I will see a teeny tiny little tails I will put a single seed in to a separate roll in the tray and sprinkle some compost on top. Non germinated seeds can be discarded. It can be very exiting for little growers to germinate this way peas and beans. Peas and beans would need a thicker level of wet tissue and can stay open Happy spring everybody! " Erika "Olivia was so keen to start her green shoots that she opened them and immediately planted them now to get her brother in the photos when they move into the garden! In the meantime this is her with her Uncle Jarrod modelling the t-shirt too! Thanks again team DG xx" Cath. "Thank you so much for the green shoots parcel, Arlo LOVED it, he had to wear the t shirt immediately after opening and went to plant the wild flowers immediately!!!" Poppy "We made the most of the sunny weekend and planted Eve's seeds from Daisy Garland. She really enjoyed and can't wait to watch them grow " Jenny " ❤️🌼💕Hi to you all at The Daisy Garland💕🌼❤️ I loved planting my seeds today and I love you too! Lots of love George Parkinson xoxoxoxoxoxo " "Thank you so much for our green shots box It's absolutely fabulous....... our little sausage dog thought she had a new friend that watering can is amazing Georgia with help from her big brother Jacob have spent the afternoon planting The last 2 pics are our green shoots that we planted in winter Thank you " Luanne "Emyr is so thrilled with his box, he's just opened it and is very excited. Think this is going to be a lovely project for Emyr & Grandad. Thank you all ever so much xxx " Melanie The full moon that appears during March is also known as the 'Worm Moon', named after the earthworms that re-emerge at the beginning of spring when the ground starts to thaw. "Sunny Saturday 16th March, Time to carefully place a few tiny tomato seeds onto the surface of chocolate brown compost. Recently used tin cans, washed and rinsed make great starter plant pots (see below). I just need to be mindful when it comes to watering, as there's no hole in the bottom for any excess water to escape... I covered the seeds with a sprinkling of compost, just enough to hide them, before giving them a good spray to settle the seeds into their new home. The plant labels are a good reminder what's been planted and when... I popped a plastic bag over each tin to help encourage germination and placed two of the tins in our little plastic greenhouse. The other tin's coming to the office with me in the morning to sit on our sunny kitchen windowsill. Tomato sandwiches here we come! 🍅 ... Next up: broad beans, sunflowers and marigolds... Not wanting to waste a second of this gorgeous weather, I pulled on my gardening boots, and set off to the allotment to sow some salad veg straight into the ground... It's incredible to think each little corky seed will turn into a beautiful beetroot with a mass of edible glossy green leaves. Following the instructions on the back of the seed packet, I dropped 20 well-spaced seeds into the freshly raked soil. There are still lenty more seeds in the packet but I didn't want to sow them all at once. I love beetroot, but if they all arrive at the same time it can be a bit overwhelming! So I"ll wait a few weeks between new sowings (succession sowing). Planting this way means homegrown beetroot all summer long. Again, it's hard to believe that each dot of a seed will grow into a crisp, leggy, spring onion, (or chipple as we fondly called them growing up). Again, I didn't sow the whole packet, saving some of the seeds to sow later... Finally, the Radish. 25 seeds sown, spacing each seed well so they have plenty of room to grow. It's nothing short of a miracle knowing these tiny hard seeds will turn into rosy radishes in the space of 6-8 weeks. The magic of nature ✨🌱✨ 3 rows of seeds sown 🌱🌱🌱 What satisfaction! Now for the watering-in. Rex, where are you?! ... It's so exciting to get the growing season underway! 🌱 Next stop: home for a cup of tea ☕️ Happy sowing everyone! " SARA X I’m enjoying composting at the moment! George and I emptied our bin last week and there was some lovely compost in there, so I’m starting again. I need to buy a second bin for when the first ones full as I stopped putting anything in for a few months. Now back to putting in all fruit and veg peel, egg shells and garden waste. I also put the chicken bedding in there when I clean them out so hoping it will be rocket fuel for the plants. Ella Click HERE to learn about the joys of composting! We compost everything foodwise - brown bin goes to council for their anaerobic digester (includes meat & cooked foods), raw salad & veg goes to our home compost bins x Jo "Anna's Green Shoots part two: Seeding. Watering. Cleaning." Jan "Our green shoots box has arrived, we are all very excited to see what we can grow 🌱 More pictures incoming once we start growing ❤️ ” Sarah "Sowing her Sweet Peas." Mary "We are flowering now." George and Marguerite "Jamesy got busy after school today 🌱💜 " Sarah "They have bloomed! Hahaha what a day of energy for the flowers.” Sadia "Yay they have all come up! I thought we'd only get a couple but the beginning of spring and there they are! I need more faith lol." Justine "Gethin did some planting with his carers this afternoon he’s very excited about the beans xxx" Helen "Ivy-Rose and her younger siblings Arlo and Ida-Rose planted their seeds this afternoon. A lovely little sibling activity that they could all get involved with and are so excited to see them grow. They weren’t happy with me that their daisy garland t shirts were in the wash as they’ve worn them a lot (Excuse the mess of the garden it’s currently under maintenance)" Carla "Faith's green shoots bulbs she planted in her bee flower tub looking super." Angela March 26th - Purple Day (Worldwide Epilepsy Awareness Day) "All set for a yummy Purple Day here at Daisy Garland HQ whilst raising lots of epilepsy awareness! To keep us going, we've some yummy purple-themed snacks to munch on throughout the day. Kettle's on and we're ready to rock! Happy Purple Day everyone! 💜 Sara's homemade ginger biscuits topped with purple icing and freshly picked violet and rosemary flowers To mark this very important day on our epilepsy calendar Flossie and I took a short detour en-route to the office and tied a sparkly purple ribbon to our 'Tree of Hope', planted last month marking 20 years of The Daisy Garland charity. I hope as many of you as possible will leave home today wearing/bearing something purple in support of epilepsy. Throughout the day, along with our fabulous families and supporters, myself and the team we will be pulling out all stops to shine a purple spotlight on this much-misunderstood condition. Epilepsy. Please feel free to jump on board and join us! To read more about our 'Tree of Hope' please click HERE In honour of Purple Day - two little green tomato shoots poking their noses through the soil 🌱🌱 (sown 11 days ago!) Noted with much excitement as I was waiting for the kettle to boil in the office kitchen. Please note, these are very special seeds! Sent to us by keto mum and keen gardener, Erika, who went to great lengths to lovingly extract these seeds from her last year's crop of heritage tomatoes. Hence the name on the wooden marker: Erika Tom! 😊🍅 Onwards and upwards little green shoots! If you're part of our Green Shoots project and have planted tomato seeds, please let us know how they're doing. We'd love some pics to share here on our GS page 🌱 And for one last time, Happy Purple Day everyone, and a big Daisy thank you for your interest in our work." SARA XX "Ours this morning." Erika "We have been doing some purple day planting this morning in the sunshine (with an audience of chickens) Happy Purple Day everyone Thank you for all you do for us The Daisy Garland." Ella "We are planting our seeds 🌱 lots of love Yusra and Nusrah" Teddy your daffodils are looking fabulous! "Our multiple tier pot of bulbs is doing really well 💜 “ Gail "I see green! He was so excited when i opened up the cold frame! Cress and radish!” Charles "I was very lucky. Mother's day Lily made me a beautiful card/bookmark with flowers from the garden with her Daisy Garland flower press . I'm sharing Mother's day with Lily as she's 12 today " Vanessa "We FINALLY have flowers Our sun flowers are starting to shoot " Chloe APRIL "Everything is coming through nicely. I’m happy with my tomatoes, they are looking really strong and healthy. I am trying a new variety this year called Bauna, it’s an improved version of the Shirley tomato I usually grow which is meant to give a bigger and better crop. So will see what happens!! Great to see the bulbs coming through as well, looking forward to seeing some colour in the garden after months of everything looking boring and miserable! Loved seeing the pictures of your sycamore tree, I’m sure it will grow to be magnificent for so many future generations to enjoy. There’s something nice in thinking this tiny little tree will one day be ginormous and will live for hundreds of years and be enjoyed loooooong after we’re gone.” Thomas Sara's Response: Thomas we have greenhouse envy! What wonderfully strong, healthy plantlets! 🌱 Thank you for sharing. Onwards and upwards! "We are spending the day sorting our green shoot area. It was destroyed by two storms and a Saint Bernard looking for a drink. We do still have some green shoots. This will be our 3rd year trying. We are not born with this green skill but each year we do better than the last. So we try again. Because people who live with drug resistant epilepsy are stubborn and we will always keep trying. We have carrots, courgettes and strawberries coming through and chives that we use in meals." Marie "It's only now that the little colour punchers are beginning to fade. I have to take a photo of alliums too. Isabelle's dad, Toby, planted them in our allotment. I saw their shoots are coming up." Erika "The Green Shoots wall flowers I planted last year have started to bloom Well worth the wait." Francesca "Been away in the woods for the last week, my beautiful girl did a bit of modelling with her Green Shoots daffodils... " Angela "What we have found over the last 2 years is the parallels between Green Shoots and drug-resistant epilepsy. We weren't born with the gardening skill. We weren't born with complex medical needs parent skill. But we keep going keep trying. We Keep Calm & Keto On. We Keep Calm & Green Shoot On. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Every year we are improving. But more than that we get outside and we get to focus on something else other than seizures and seizure treatment. Resilience it turns out we have developed." Marie "We were having a little photoshoot at the time and he just got up and started to walk the length of the garden " Emma THREE CHEERS for Landon - Hip Hip Hooray 👏👏 👏🎉🎉 🎉 - who took his very first steps wearing his Daisy Garland Green Shoots T-Shirt 🌱 "Isabelle's narcissi planted earlier this year from her Green Shoots box." Sarah "Easter half term. Jacob started with his seeds " Lynn "We've been having a very busy holiday working hard in our allotment. We are still eating our winter lettuce and parsley from last years planting. Isabelle's dad, Toby, cooked some delicious rhubarb crumble and Isabelle keeps an eye on alliums gifted by You, The Daisy Garland. And I am loving my herbs" Erika "Today’s a good day for sowing those little Green Shoots seeds (refer to the back of the seed packet for sowing instructions and tips). Below are my sweet pea and sunflower seedlings, seeds planted just 3 weeks ago." SARA X "Green Shoots already I've sadly made a little chart for my seedlings due dates the keto diet has trained me well in all aspects of note taking and chart making " Francesca "Here's Poppy on a Green Shoots inspired trip to the garden centre to get some supplies. She was very excited to plant some seeds and even more excited when she could see some baby plants! " Hannah "So far I've planted, cosmos, dahlia, zinnia, aster, phlox, snap dragons, cucumbers, Ice plant, snake gourd, basil, parsley, coriander and cucamelons Bear helped fill pots and then emptied them on the patio but at least he hasn't been putting dirt in his mouth... Well at least so far. I took him for a walk today (he's got a special (tomato) buggy) and I asked which way he wanted to go, he directed me to my sisters house. He giggled when I asked if he was leading me to auntie Katie's. He's made of sweetness and mischief " Francesca "Finally all well enough to do our planting Thank you so much. Amy actually adored the whole event cheering and laughing the whole time. In previous years she has been angry and disinterested. So lovely to see her enjoying something non musical/non screen based. Thank you again " Ceri-ann "Thank you so much. Annabel xx " "They are now big seeds apparently " Charles "Had a busy Easter holiday. Lily finally got round to planting her sweet peas. Lily soaked seeds in pint glass of warm water night before (found out today it's better to use a smaller glass ... Next time). Saving water from seeds to use later." Vanessa "Annabelle has been inspecting her winter Green Shoots daffodil bulbs that we planted a few months ago. They are looking beautiful in the garden. We have also been enjoying the lovely spring weather and have planted our cress and bean seeds together this week - thank you so much! X " Hannah "Tomato seedlings enjoying river view at Daisy Garland HQ" "Hi I just wanted to show you a few photos of Georgia and Oliver they have started gardening today, we have been waiting for some warmer weather... ...Georgia got up this morning and said 'I need to check on my plants I think they’ve grown' if only it were that fast lol x" Sarah "Mud and grass stew Bear has re-purposed the pot he broke its now his " Francesca "We had some fun in the garden with ‘Rex’ and planted our wild flower seed balls. Also have lots of lovely forget-me-knots from last year." Rosalind "Here's Paige visiting Inverness Botanic Gardens inspired by the Green Shoots project!" Angela "Making the most of the sunshine by making a start on the repotting of our seedlings James was super impressed with how big his beans have got in 2 weeks " Sarah A picture update on our 'Tree of Hope' for Epilepsy. Click HERE to learn more. April 14th - the very first leaf emerges... April 17th - a show of leaves against the gorgeous blue sky Flossie the office pooch loves nothing more than a photo-shoot! Trees offer immense benefits for our health and are one of the best nature-based solutions for adapting to climate change. - Kate Sheldon, CEO, Trees For Cities "Part of Anna's Green Shoots parcel were Seed balls great for bees. Thus we seeded them around our bug hotel (in the communal bee friendly area) to create all inclusive insect accommodation." Honza "Anna's Green Shoots part three: Observing. Harvesting. Eating (Cress)" Honza "What we have found over the last 2 years is the parallels between Green Shoots and drug resistant epilepsy... We Keep Calm & Keto On. We Keep Calm & Green Shoot On. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Every year we are improving. But more than that we get outside and we get to focus on something else other than seizures and seizure treatment..." Marie Watch this space for more updates coming soon 🌱 Manage Cookie Preferences