Working on the Garden #3

Yesterday afternoon, on a very hot and sunny day, Liz, Moyo, Emma (our Envision co-ordinator) and I met up for a trip down to Homebase to buy some plants for the new flower bed we wanted to create. We knew that we wanted more colour and smells so we set out looking for the most suitable flowers- and we did, thanks to some guidance from one of the staff at Homebase. 

What seemed like a never ending walk up Kings Heath high street, we carried our purchases back to the care home with the flowers surprisingly still intact! Unfortunately Moyo had to leave us when we got back but Liz, Emma and I continued on to start our work on the flower bed.

Upon settling on where we wanted our flower bed to be, we began our intense digging session on the very unco-operative grass! Using all the tools available to us, we dug up the thick layer of grass- finding all sorts of 'treasures' underneath the surface (e.g bricks, pieces of pottery, shiny rocks, tree roots, ant eggs...).   

Once we had done the main bit of the work, the residents and the carers came out to the garden to help us turn up more soil and to actually plant in the new flowers. Everyone had their own space around the patch of soil and we all had fun working together to bring it to life.

The three of us had never done gardening before and so it was an extremely proud moment for us to see the finished flower bed. Some of the plants have yet to flower and I'm sure in the summer, the garden will look more like an explosion of colour (and more so than it has ever done in the past).  

Photos from the day:

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And here are some photos to show what the garden looks like now:

- Amy