All ages came together at Gyllyngdune Gardens on Friday to plant a special memory garden for people with dementia and their families.

Children from Constantine School and Penryn College joined members of the Memory Cafes from Penryn and Falmouth, the towns' mayors, and crew members of Falmouth Fire Station's black watch, to dig in and bed down a variety of plants for the garden.

This is the second year that the project has run, expanding from last year when the planting was done by white watch and the Falmouth Memory Cafe, who returned every six weeks afterwards to tend to the garden.

It is a project run in partnership between Falmouth Town Council and Cormac, and supported by £500 from the Royal Horticultural Society's initiative, Greening Grey Britain, which aims at promoting the health and wellbeing of older people through gardening.

Jacqui Owen, visitor and community engagement officer with Cormac, said: "I thought it was important to involve the schools as well, and create an intergenerational project.

"It's been a fantastic project and the whole design of the beds is based around the Memory Friends logo of a blue forget-me-not. The design is predominantly whites, blues and yellows."

Maryla Caddy of Falmouth Memory Cafe said: "I feel it's quite important for these sort of events to get lonely and isolated people into the community.

"To get them to interact and to have a bit of life, to get out somewhere and look forward to something."