Residents at Shawford Springs care home in Compton celebrated National Gardening Week from May 1-7. 

Ever since it was first celebrated in 2012, National Gardening Week has grown in popularity. 

The week raises awareness of the difference gardens and gardening can make to everyone’s lives and helps to inspire people.

The theme for this year’s National Gardening Week was to celebrate His Majesty King Charles III and his love of horticulture and the environment.  

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Residents took part to create colourful raised beds with red, white and blue themes to decorate the home ready for the coronation.

It was also the ideal time to launch Shawford Springs Gardening Club. The next project will to be to plant some seasonal vegetables.

Julie House, general manager at Shawford Springs, said: “Our garden is a much loved space, residents really enjoy looking after the plants and flowers, watching them grow and change through the seasons. May is such a fantastic time to be outside enjoying the garden, many of our flowers are coming into bloom now so we all had great fun creating our colourful containers for the coronation. Seeing all of the trees in blossom is such a tonic for us all too.”