by Kirstie Newell | Oct 11, 2023 | In the Garden, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
This week our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home enjoyed getting outside in the fine weather to do some gardening. Our ladies and gent loved getting involved together tidying up and getting the garden ready for autumn. After all our hard work we sat down...
by Kirstie Newell | Sep 8, 2022 | In the Garden, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Time in the garden Last week some of our residents joined in for gardening club here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. We enjoyed watering our beautiful plants and seeing how much our vegetable crop has grown. It was such a lovely afternoon in the sun, with...
by Kirstie Newell | Aug 28, 2022 | In the Garden, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
As part of this year’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, our residents and staff at The Old Downs Residential Care Home entered a fun competition running across all Nellsar’s 13 Homes, to see who could create the best royal-themed garden. The judging criteria were:...
by Kirstie Newell | Jul 13, 2022 | In the Garden, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Last week some of our residents joined in for our gardening club at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Our ladies and gents loved watering our freshly grown vegetables and beautiful flowers, which all look full of health. Everyone enjoyed walking around the garden...
by Kirstie Newell | Jun 23, 2022 | In the Garden, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
On Tuesday 14 June a group of our residents and staff from The Old Downs Residential Care Home took a minibus trip out to a local garden centre to buy plants for our garden. We bought a range of vegetable and herb plants including tomato, cucumber, courgette,...
by Kirstie Newell | May 4, 2022 | In the Garden, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Some of our residents enjoyed joining in for our Gardening Club on Tuesday 26 April here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Everybody thoroughly enjoyed choosing and planting the flowers to go into our lovely hanging baskets. It was a lovely sunny day and we...