Lemon Tree Trust featured in new book celebrating the power of gardens to change lives
Gardens That Can Save the World, a new book by award-winning garden designer Lottie Delamain, features Lemon Tree Trust and we are honoured to be included.
The book, published on 12 March by Thames & Hudson, brings together 65 projects from around the world, exploring how gardens and growing can address some of the most pressing challenges people face today, from climate change and food insecurity to isolation, displacement and trauma.
Lemon Tree Trust features in the EMPOWER chapter, under the heading Grow plants to connect you to home, which gathers stories of gardens growing in some of the world’s most difficult circumstances, including refugee camps and conflict zones in Iraq, Gaza, Ukraine and beyond. The chapter focuses in particular on our Garden of the Month initiative, which runs across nine refugee and internally displaced persons camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The initiative supports displaced communities to create and tend their own garden spaces, recognising that growing things, however modest the plot, can restore a sense of dignity, agency and belonging when so much else has been lost.
Lottie writes of how the Garden of the Month award brings “much needed pride, joy and wellbeing in stark and uncertain times” and reflects on what gardeners in displacement choose to grow: not only food, but flowers that carry memory, beauty and a sense of home.
The 2026 Lemon Tree Trust Cooking Competitions have brought together people from different cultural backgrounds to share the dishes and food traditions that are important to them this October. Across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, our annual competition fixture continues to celebrate the diversity of local communities, while supporting people to connect through growing, preparing … Continued
Harvest time can be a good opportunity to get together, share what we are growing, making or cooking and raise funds for Lemon Tree Trust. Whether you share homegrown produce, enjoy a meal with friends or organise a garden gathering, there are plenty of simple ways to bring people together and support our work. Whether … Continued
Lemon Tree Trust supporter Katie Cox recently raised £1,000 for our work, plus £250 in Gift Aid, by organising an arts and crafts fundraising event at her home and in her garden. Katie is pictured above wearing a rather fabulous green shirt covered in lemons. Katie’s donation was made during our Tree & Plant Appeal, … Continued