Member of Penryn College's Interact Club joined firefighters, council staff and representatives from Falmouth and Penryn's Memory Cafes to exercise their green fingers last week.

The youngsters were invited to Gyllyngdune Gardens in Falmouth on Thursday where they braved the showery weather to help plant up the memory garden which is designed for people with dementia and their families.

The Penryn and Falmouth dementia-friendly project is a partnership between Penryn Rotary Club, Falmouth Town Council and Cormac's parks and gardens team which aims to make people aware of what dementia is and how it affects families.

Back in September, schoolchildren joined firefighters and the Cormac gardens' team, along with the town council's visitor and community engagement officer, Jacqui, to rip out last year's memory garden in preparation for last week's re-planting.

After a morning's hard work the two beds at the top end of Princess Pavilion's gardens had been filled with plants. Students and memory cafe volunteers will be back every month to maintain the gardens, again with the help of Cormac.