Seniors try hand at pots and plants

Jim Sherman, 92, is a bit of a green thumb. 142889 Pictures: STEWART CHAMBERS

By CASEY NEILL

GREEN thumbs have got a workout at Uniting AgeWell in Noble Park.
About 12 people from the planned activity group, called Scott Club, potted a cherry tomato on Monday 31 August.
Uniting AgeWell’s Leanne Bydes said Bunnings Springvale team member Andreja brought along the pots and plants and lent a hand.
“Then she revamped all our pots – put new soil and new little plants in, just to spruce it all up,” she said.
“It was fantastic. It will be an ongoing thing with Bunnings now,” she said.
Ms Bydes said the clients were enthusiastic.
“Some of them wanted to do more than one, and they did them for others that weren’t so capable of doing it,” she said.
The Scott Club takes its name from the Uniting Church that stood in Scott Street, Dandenong, and ran a similar program.