York Gate Garden Adel: Look inside the tiny one-acre garden in Leeds that's a magical hidden gem
Tucked away in north Leeds is magical one-acre garden that is one of the city’s true hidden gems.
York Gate Garden in Adel is a tiny garden created by the Spencer family in 1951 – they’d originally moved to the property to keep horses, but decided to make a garden there. Now one of four gardens run by the Perennial charity, it is open to visitors between April and October each year, offering a range of plants, trees, shrubs and bulbs for members of the public to enjoy.
Mark Jackson, York Gate’s garden manager, said: “We’re custodians of a very important small garden. It’s incredible what we pack in - there’s a great diversity and range of plants, varieties and species.
“One of the things that is really nice is the intimacy that connects us with people with ordinary gardens. They can walk round here and get ideas and inspiration.”
Watch the video above as we look around the tiny garden and meet some of the people who help to run it.