Bulwell care home residents embrace flower power for Chelsea show
Residents at Hall Park Care Home in Bulwell have been saying it with flowers as they enjoyed this month’s Chelsea Flower Show.
As well as watching the show on TV, they also held their own competition for green-fingered residents.
Created and run by the Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show is the one of the world’s most famous flower shows with stunning garden designs and gorgeous floral displays.
Hall Park residents took part in flower-based activities throughout the week including a flower arranging competition, reminiscing about their gardens/flowers in the home’s garden, virtual visits to famous gardens on YouTube and a flower quiz which everyone really enjoyed. Jodie Rakhra, general manager at Hall Park said: "Their collective knowledge about flowers and shrubs gained from years of gardening experience was very impressive.
“Our garden is a much-loved space, our residents really enjoy looking after the plants and flowers and watching them grow and change through the seasons.
It has been wonderful to see all the beautiful garden designs at Chelsea, it has given us real inspiration to try some new planting schemes and see what we can achieve in our own garden.”
Lorna Reed, a resident at Hall Park added: “I just love to watch the Chelsea Flower Show, to me it is the absolute highlight of the gardening year.
"I don’t know how they manage to come up with such innovative designs each year but it is just so lovely to see all the gorgeous blooms and beautiful colours.”
For more details on Hall Park, visit barchester.com/home/hall-park-care-home