Denmead care home residents enjoy some gardening preparation for summer

This beautiful and well established ‘care home in the woods’ is known to offer a wide range of interesting and engaging activities. Known also to always have a fragrant array of fresh flowers within the home and as much colour as the season allows outside. The walkway borders and garden beds are currently adorned with crocuses, daffodils, hellebores and a few winter aconites nestle amongst the shrubs.

The planters near the entrance are a riot of blooms large and small, with primroses are doing well.

Residents and staff recently enjoyed a lovely gardening session, planting seeds and preparing for the warmer days ahead. There is certainly environmental awareness as they reused egg boxes as seed trays in a simple, eco-friendly way to start their little summer garden.

Gardening brings back so many wonderful memories and is a beautiful way to relax, connect, and spend time together. Gardening is one of a great many stimulating, purposeful and They will nurture the seeds and look forward to watching them grow.

The gardening and maintenance team John and Steve work hard in all weathers, but residents have certainly enjoyed ‘doing their bit’.

General Manager Abbie Johnston said ‘I am immensely proud of Denmead Grange, it is a beautiful home, full of happy people and a spot of gardening is something many of our residents have enjoyed for most of their lives. It really is just wonderful to have such a variety of activities to enjoy with our residents.’

Denmead Grange care home is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering personalised c

are across its care homes and hospitals. Denmead Grange provides residential and dementia care for 60 residents from respite care to long term stays.