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Encouraging youngsters The RHS Campaign for School Gardening inspires and supports schools to provide children with gardening opportunities to start growing to enhance their skills and boost their development. The RHS’s previous work with schools has shown that the direct benefits of gardening for children are wide-ranging, including improved physical and mental well-being, building life skills such as confidence, teamwork and communication, teaching about the environment and sustainability, plus helping them to engage with their surroundings better and to develop a sense of responsibility.

Mr Fothergill’s is pleased to be supplying We are supplying seeds for level four. the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Schools applying for this level will receive a with seeds for its Campaign for Schools box of Mr Fothergill’s seeds containing 47 Gardening. Schools can register with the varieties of flowers and vegetables selected campaign: to cover a number of themes. These include (https://schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/ easy salads, easy vegetables, indoor crops, about-us) and receive a range of free peas and beans, plants for containers and gardening equipment and consumables. flowers for wildlife.

facebook.com/MrFothergills @mrfothergill linkedin.com/company/mr-fothergill’s-seeds-ltd New salesperson and territory changes Essex-based Louis King has been appointed territory manager for Kent and most of London by Mr Fothergill’s. He comes to us from a similar rôle with Unilever. 1 Prior to this, Louis lived in Sweden for eight years, where he was a semi-professional footballer. Louis King, territory Announcing the appointment, joint-managing manager for South director David Carey said “This is an additional East & London territory manager appointment, bringing us up to 16 in our field teams. We believe we have the largest UK seed-dedicated field-team in the market and our team expansion is in keeping with our belief in being ‘traditional’ seedsmen, and 2 the importance of customer service and seed stand management. 4 This belief has been reflected in 6 several sales successes in recent years”. 5 Louis King is being introduced to our Kent and London stockists. In his 3 leisure time he continues his keen interest in football and gym work. The appointment of Louis has 8 increased the number of 10 sale staff that we now have 7 9 looking after our customers. The map gives a rough guide to what part of the UK everyone covers. 12 KEY 14 1-3 The Denholm Agency 9. Jon-Paul Schofi eld 13 4. Larry White 10. Kevin Sullivan 11 5. Sylvia Thomas 11. Larry White 6. Julie Emmett 12. Mark Cottingham 7. Larry White 13. Stuart Clements 8. Chris Owen 14. Louis King It’s a testing time for seeds As part of our ongoing commitment to quality assurance, we have both our own on-site seed testing laboratory and trial ground, where the vigour and trueness-to- type of our varieties are continually assessed to ensure we offer our customers only the very best seeds. Expansion is afoot in 2017; we have recently taken delivery of two new, state- of-the-art incubators, and are seeking two new members of staff - one to assist in the laboratory and one to learn the workings of our trial ground. Our team of ‘backroom’ boys and girls ensures we can continue to offer seeds gardeners can trust.

For more information visit www.mr-fothergills-trade.co.uk Supporting relief work in Chernobyl We have once again donated vegetable seeds to the victims of the world’s worst Chernobyl Children’s Appeal, set up by Peterborough nuclear power accident, which couple John and Rosie Sandall to support families of happened in the former USSR in April 1986. The Sandalls have visited Chernobyl in Ukraine twice yearly for the last two decades, taking with them much-needed supplies and funds raised solely by themselves; in that time they have also helped to fund a sanatorium. Mr Fothergill’s has been giving vegetable seeds to the cause for several years, with tomatoes, squashes and cucumbers being particularly popular with the families who grow them. “We are delighted to play a part in the great work Rosie and John continue to do for the people of Chernobyl, who are still in need 30 years after the dreadful incident”, said David Carey. Patience is a virtue - rewarded by Paradise!

Despite having been a professional grower for more than 50 years, Mr Fothergill’s trials manager Brian Talman still enjoys a horticultural challenge. During those years he has learned the value of patience, and nowhere more so than with his experience of Strelitzia reginae, also known as bird of paradise. Strelitzia reginae Brian sowed the seed of the fl amboyant South African native back in 2008, and “It has been growing in general waited for it to germinate in his greenhouse; purpose compost all that time”, the process took two years, but fi nally green explains Brian, “and it even managed shoots emerged. He has been nurturing the to survive being frosted once, despite plants ever since, and in December 2016 he its tenderness. It’s great to see it was rewarded when the fi rst fl ower appeared fl owering after all that time!” on a 2m tall plant - six years after it fi rst Strelitzia reginae is available in the emerged. Johnsons World Botanics range. Pictured: Carol Parsons laboratory supervisor and Mr Fothergill’s trials manager Brian Talman

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