Fat Daisy™ — The World's Grumpiest Flower

Fat Daisy and the garden gang together in rural Somerset

Somewhere in rural Somerset…

Who is Fat Daisy?

A daisy with opinions.

Fat Daisy is short, stout, rooted to the spot and deeply suspicious of unnecessary enthusiasm. He has cream petals, a golden face, two perfectly ordinary leaves and absolutely no hands — a fact people keep expecting him to overcome.

He shares the garden with creatures who are far too cheerful for his liking. The roses are vain. Kevin the snail is relentlessly friendly. The bees keep helping. The ladybird knows exactly what he is thinking. And somewhere under all that grumbling, Daisy cares rather more than he admits.

The rule of the garden is simple: humour first, heart second, lectures never. The useful bit should sneak up on you while Daisy is complaining about something else.

The garden gang

Unfortunately, he has neighbours.

Every character has their own little job in Daisy's world. Some help him. Some annoy him. Several manage both.

The main flower

Fat Daisy

Dry, weary and deeply unimpressed. He is warmer than he would like anyone to discover.

Speed: optional

Kevin the Snail

Slides into view. Says “Hello!”. Remains cheerful. Daisy has accepted that resistance is pointless.

The rose department

Crimson, Petal & Blush

Beautiful, vain and acutely aware of both facts. Daisy says they're “grumpy on the inside”.

First impressions

The Hedgehog

Spiky on the outside. Polite on the inside. Turns out appearances aren't the whole story.

Small. Useful.

The Bees

When the rain comes, they turn up. Daisy finds unsolicited kindness extremely inconvenient.

Quietly knowing

The Ladybird

Gentle, affectionate and exceptionally good at saying the thing Daisy hoped everyone would leave unsaid.

Fat Daisy in the flower-lined Somerset cottage garden

The world of Fat Daisy

A very small world with rather big opinions.

The garden is warm, familiar and a little magical — stone paths, old hedges, untidy flowers and tiny dramas happening at ground level. It is the sort of place where sadness can feel like rain, kindness can arrive carrying a leaf, and a snail can take as long as he likes.

Somerset. Sunshine. Rain. Roses. Complaints.

About the creator

Made by a dad who never thought he was creative.

Fat Daisy was not born in a studio, an agency or a writers' room. He began with Chris, a dad who would normally describe himself as thoroughly non-creative, wanting to make something special for his daughter, Eve.

Eve created the character and gave Fat Daisy his name. She is autistic, funny, perceptive and sees things in ways that constantly surprise and inspire her dad. Fat Daisy grew from that shared spark.

While Chris has been dealing with serious illness, building Daisy's little world became something positive to make for Eve: a reason to create, laugh and keep adding another character, another joke and another story.

The ambition is deliberately simple: make Eve laugh first. If Fat Daisy makes other children — and the grown-ups standing behind them — laugh too, that is a pretty lovely bonus.

For Eve. Always. 🌼

From the garden

Short films. Long opinions.

Tiny stories about friendship, sadness, first impressions and being yourself — disguised, as far as Daisy is concerned, as perfectly reasonable complaints.