Eco-friendly initiatives at a Mansfield care home are being highlighted to celebrate World Conservation Day.

HC-One’s Berry Hill Park Care Home has been using its garden for several environmentally-friendly plans.

A gardening club has adopted several Green initiatives and ongoing projects include installing quirky bug houses to help foster biodiversity, and creating a wildflower garden.

Members of the gardening club cleaned out pots for planting, weeded, raked in new compost for raised garden beds, and watered new plants.

Berry Hill Park residents also visited a garden centre to buy new plants.

Planters have been added to the garden for wildflowers, to help attract wildlife.

The bug houses were hand-painted by residents and tied to tree branches.

The project was led by the home’s wellbeing coordinator, Claire Brown, after speaking to residents about refreshing the garden.

She said hedgehogs from nearby woods have been spotted in the garden and the home plans to set up a ‘hedgehog hive’ to attract further of the mammals. A wildlife expert from Mansfield Woodhouse will also visit Berry Hill Park with hedgehogs.

Yvonne Challoner, a resident at the home, said: “The wildflowers look so pretty in the garden. They make me feel so much better when I am feeling down.

“I like to see the wildlife. They are very self-sufficient and look after their young and themselves.”

Claire added: “At Berry Hill Park, we are fortunate to have such a large garden, surrounded by trees.

“A few weeks ago, I was taking Yvonne into the garden, where she saw a lovely wildflower growing on a mole hill.

“After hearing of Yvonne’s enthusiasm for wildflowers, we thought that we could make a wildflower garden.

“Wildlife enjoy our garden and we like to watch them. Some residents have bird feeders so they can see the birds and squirrels from their bedroom windows.

“We try to incorporate the garden into our activity planner, such as potting plants, deadheading flowers, watering plants, and painting bug houses. We’re now looking at biodiversity, and we’re currently listing the many wildflowers, birds, insects, and wild animals that live in our garden.”