During Flower Show week, Farnham Mill looked forward to connecting with fellow flower enthusiasts, gardeners, sharing their latest creations and continuing to inspire a love for all things green and blooming.
With a passion for the natural beauty of flora and over a decade of experience that some of our Farnham Mill residents have in horticulture, we combined our very own artistic flair with deep botanical knowledge and created our very own stunning floral displays that captivate and inspire audiences.
Our Flower Show week started this Monday morning, with a creative session making a floral photo frame as well as flower 3d printing. All ready for a very flowery photoshoot on a beautiful sunny day. A lovely Monday morning at Farnham Mill.
A couple of miles, in the minibus, to the beautiful historic site of Waverley Abbey House. It was our first Farnham Mill outing there, we enjoyed the buildings, the scenery, the warm sunshine, and a lovely visit to the café.
Monday afternoon tea at Farnham Mill. We love the chance to gather together to enjoy a cuppa and chef’s home-made cakes. Today we joined in with a fun flowery quiz to test our knowledge of the garden.
Bringing the Chelsea Flower Show to Farnham Mill with our very own flower morning. A game of floral bingo and a cuppa served in our best ‘’Flower China’’ at our beautifully decorated flowery table.
In the afternoon, the dementia choir met at Farnham Mill, bringing together residents from all 4 homes under Woodlands and Hill Brow Ltd. These remarkable individuals have developed close relationships and use music, including their favourite hymns and songs, to connect. The choir session now always ends with a lively dance, as well as refreshments, providing an opportunity for these friends to reconnect and socialise.
A lovely flowery Wednesday at Farnham Mill as we started the morning with an A-Z of flowers word game. Some tricky letters but we managed every letter except x. After we enjoyed the sights of the wildflowers growing around the pond in the gardens. We are incredibly proud of our beautiful gardens and delighted to see all the plants that have arrived ready for planting in pots and baskets.
Something for everyone this afternoon at Farnham Mill, we enjoyed a variety of activities and choices. We enjoyed giant games, with our friends from Lord Wandsworth College, baking cheese scones with Steve and physio with our lovely Aila.
The sunflower is very important to Woodlands and Hill Brow as it is the symbol of loyalty, adoration, and longevity, and so for Flower Show week Farnham Mill residents created beautiful sunflowers out of paper plates. We used real sunflower seeds for the middle of some of them so they can decorate the garden and be enjoyed by the birds and squirrels. Others will be displayed indoors for all to see. It gives us such a sense of pride along with an opportunity to work together creating something so pretty.
Everyone is talking about Chelsea Flower Show but here at Farnham Mill we have got our very own fabulous display of flowers following an afternoon of intense activity at flower arranging club.
Some of the residents here at Farnham Mill decided to opt for a relaxed afternoon enjoying the sunshine on the balcony and listening to the sounds of nature.
A chilled Friday morning, with the opportunity to enjoy a relaxing hand massage and some therapeutic nail care. Others joined in with arts and crafts making floral bookmarks to keep that page marked in their latest read.
The perfect blend of light exercise with added social engagement and fun for our ladies and gents. A game of balloon badminton is always a firm favourite at Farnham Mill.
The company of friends is so important to us all at Farnham Mill. A Saturday morning gathering in the lounge for a flower themed morning of word games and a singalong.
Flower cupcakes for our special Farnham Mill floral afternoon tea.
Carrying on with the tradition, at Farnham Mill, of Sunday being ‘a day of rest’ we enjoyed the peace and quiet of the gardens on this glorious day, a game of dominoes in the lounge and some time spent choosing a book to read on the sunny balcony.
We enjoyed a really fun, happy Sunday afternoon. We avoided the snakes and climbed the ladders as we gathered for a giant board game in the lounge.
