A REVAMPED garden at a nursing home in Ledbury has scooped gold at this year's Ledbury in Bloom competition.

Ledbury Nursing Home, which is owned and run by Shaw Healthcare, has spent the last year redeveloping its patio and garden area after consulting residents on how they would like to see the space transformed.

This included extending and cleaning the patio and installing a new bird bath, a selection of new shrubs and flowers and a special raised bed.

A panel of judges spent time visiting the home and gardens, and described the newly-extended garden and the centre’s hanging baskets as “outstanding”.

The team were recently presented with the gold award at a presentation ceremony at Burgage Hall in Ledbury.

Nursing home manager, Lorraine Cooling, said: “We are absolutely delighted to win this gold award. The garden is a very important area to our residents, somewhere they all like to spend time enjoying the flowers and the views over the village. We made sure our residents were involved in the development of the garden from the very start and many of them submitted their own ideas and suggestions.

”Our activity coordinator, Anita Kinnear, was also a real driving force behind the transformation, painting colourful artwork along the corridor leading into the garden from the home.

“The judging process was quite thorough, and the team spent a lot of time talking them through the changes that we had made, and how they would benefit our residents.

”This award is a fantastic recognition of the hard work and creativity everyone at the home has put into making the garden an even more enjoyable place for all our service users. We’re now hoping to develop a sensory garden at the home in the future.

“We held a garden party with a strawberry tea for all the residents, their families and friends when the new garden was finished. We might have to hold another one now that we’ve won this award."

Ledbury Nursing Home provides respite and nursing care and is part of the Ledbury Community Care Centre.