Growing for Gold

	Dear Growing for Gold participants, Thanks for signing up to Growing for Gold, the 50th anniversary celebration of RHS Britain in Bloom. We’ll be sending out your free sunflower seeds in early April, in time for your sowing events. Your seed packet will contain approximately 40 seeds, comprising roughly equal parts Helianthus annuus ‘Giant Single’; H. annuus ‘Taiyo’; H. annuus ‘Moonwalker’ and H. debilis ‘Vanilla Ice’. We hope all groups will arrange a launch event between 14 – 20 April to coincide with UK-wide Growing for Gold celebrations. Attract extra volunteersYou can now add your events to the National Gardening Week website, to help you to attract more volunteers and support for your activities. Just fill in the online form at:www.nationalgardeningweek.org.uk Publicise your eventDon’t forget to publicise your Bloom launch activity too – we’ve developed a series of Bloom 50th poster templates (see support and resources) to help you do this and also a press release that you can amend and send out to your local media. The RHS website also has advice about sowing your seeds and creating larger golden displays. We hope you have lots of fun with your launch events. Please let us know how you get on and send us your photos so that we can share your stories with other groups via our newsletters. Send your feedback and photos to: communities@rhs.org.uk. Best wishes, RHS Community Horticulture