by Kirstie Newell | Apr 17, 2024 | Hengist Field Care Home, In the Garden
On Saturday 13 April we started up our Gardening Club again here at Hengist Field Care Home, now the weather is starting to get warmer and brighter. We planted some tomatoes, wild flowers and sunflowers, so we are looking forward to seeing how they come along and who...
by Jodie Currey | Apr 8, 2024 | Hengist Field Care Home, In the Garden
Our feathered friends What a lovely day we had on Wednesday 3 April at Hengist Field Care Home; we had the ducklings out in the paddling pool where our residents loved watching them, cuddling and towel drying them. The little ducklings were also taken round to our...
by Jodie Currey | May 11, 2023 | Hengist Field Care Home, In the Garden
The great release on Thursday 11 May Everyone at Hengist Field Care Home has enjoyed watching the fascinating transformation of the tadpoles in our pond into fully grown frogs – which most of them have now! The frogspawn came from the large pond at the front of...
by Kirstie Newell | May 9, 2023 | Hengist Field Care Home, In the Garden
On Thursday 4 May, our Hengist Field Care Home ladies got busy in the morning at our Gardening Club. Some of our green-fingered ladies were in the garden putting plants in our flower beds and making the most of the sunshine. Meanwhile, we also had a table of ladies...
by Kirstie Newell | Mar 29, 2023 | Hengist Field Care Home, In the Garden
Here at Hengist Field Care Home we are getting ready for spring! We have a new potting shed going up in our garden with plenty of tools, gloves, soil and the many seeds we brought back from our trip to Dobbies Garden Centre. So on Friday 24 March we started doing some...
by Kirstie Newell | Feb 1, 2023 | Hengist Field Care Home, In the Garden
Here at Hengist Field Care Home, we enjoyed preparing for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch by making some bird feeders for our feathered friends. This was a messy job, using peanut butter to stick bird seeds to shaped feeders, but great fun and everyone enjoyed it. We...