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Things don’t always go according to plan when it comes to gardening, do they?   In August, when our team were due to be taking a well-earned break following a busy period of Annual Garden Competitions, the borewell mechanism in the Azadi Community Garden in Domiz 1 camp stopped working.   While the majority of shelters in … Continued

Following the success of our 2022 Garden Competitions, Aveen Ibrahem, our Operations Manager in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, organised a garden party for our dedicated team of coordinators and gardeners who work across nine camps for displaced people in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and who are all displaced themselves.   We celebrated everyone’s hard … Continued

We have awarded prizes to 99 winning gardens in our 2022 Lemon Tree Trust (LTT) annual garden competitions.   Competitions took place in nine refugee and IDP (internally displaced people) camps across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) this year with 11 gardens from each camp being awarded prizes. To take part, residents simply needed to … Continued

A selection of our fun ‘Lenny Lemon’ family gardening activities, developed in conjunction with the Royal Horticultural Society, are now available in Ukrainian. The activities can be enjoyed at home or school and are suitable for ages 3+. Activities include: Make a ladybird and bug home Drinking trays for birds Grow snapdragons Make and follow … Continued

It was our pleasure to join O’s Refugee Aid Team and others on an aid convoy on World Refugee Day in northern France on 20 June. Lemon Tree Trust donated sleeping bags, basketball hoops and balls, phone chargers and seed packets to specialist teams working directly with displaced people living in temporary camps in Calais and Dunkirk. The trip also … Continued

The team behind FLORXLzine – Carmen Sheridan, Hannah Jones and Emma Brown – have raised £1000 for the Lemon Tree Trust through sales of the print publication. The first issue of the zine was launched in November 2021 to celebrate plants, gardens and horticulture and the team have gone on to publish two more. They … Continued