This year HC-One’s annual Gardening Competition saw a number of outstanding creations submitted from across its care homes in the UK. This year’s Gardening Competition has been even more significant in bringing joy and excitement to Residents and Colleagues, during what has been a difficult time for everyone due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This year’s green fingers award category winner, who is a Resident living in the care home is:
Christopher Trusler, St Christopher’s Care Home
Chris is delighted to have won a prize in the HC-One Gardening Competition this year. Chris spends a lot of time tending to his plants. He grows a range of flowers and herbs on his window sill. Chris also helps maintain the outside space for all of the other Residents to enjoy and he is a valued honouree of the Wellbeing Team. In his spare time, Chris grows lettuce and pansies for our Resident tortoises, Del Boy and Rodney, which he also takes care of. Next summer, Chris plans to begin planting oranges and lemons from seeds.
The judges of the HC-One Gardening Competition were incredibly grateful to all entrants for taking part and were especially impressed with this year’s prize winners. HC-One has had a great success with this year’s Gardening Competition and look forward to running the Gardening Competition in subsequent years to come.