It’s a snip! Girl’s haircut for cancer charity

A seven year old schoolgirl from South Molton is going to have all her long locks cut off on April 1st, but this is no April Fools’ joke! Caitlin Buckingham (pictured right) is doing it all for The Little Princess Trust.

The charity supports children with cancer, including making wigs for them, which cost around £550 each to create.

Caitlin is not only donating her hair, she is also hoping to raise enough money for at least one wig. “I’m happy knowing that I’m sharing my hair with another child,” she said.

Her mum Rachel added, “She has always had lovely thick, beautiful hair. She’s such a kind, thoughtful little girl and I am so immensely proud of her for doing this.”

The Little Princess Trust provides real hair wigs, free of charge, to children and young people who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or other conditions such as Alopecia.

Caitlin’s ‘Big Haircut’ is taking place at Halo Hair & Beauty in East Street, South Molton. You can read how she got on in the May edition of Molton Monthly magazine.

If you would like to make a donation to Caitlin’s fundraising appeal, please go to: justgiving.com/page/rachelbuckingham-1675115087031

Jobs to do in March

1. Continue to deadhead winter-flowering pansies and other winter bedding. Pansies will carry on into the spring and even to early summer if you stop them setting seed.

2. Prune bush and climbing roses. Cut to an outward facing bud to encourage an open-centred shape, cuts should be no more than 5mm above a bud and should slope downwards away from it.

3. Hardy annuals can be sown in pots or modules to provide colour in the garden. In mild areas you can sow directly outside.

4. Onion sets, shallots and potatoes can be planted this month.

5. March is quite a tough time for birds, they will have eaten all but the last of the berries and there are not many insects out yet, so putting out some food will really help them as they are about to start breeding.

The Queen’s Green Canopy was created to mark the Platinum Jubilee. In the first planting season from October 2021 to March 2022 over a million trees were planted in Her Majesty’s name to create a living legacy - it has now been extended to this spring.

In our garden at the nursery, we are planting 70 trees for the Queen’s Canopy, we will upload our planting project to their interactive map before the end of this month. Until next month, Jenny Howells

March Opening Times

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Sunday 10-4

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