A group of green-fingered Shipley tenants have transformed their communal garden into a summer retreat.

The small band of garden enthusiasts, who live at Norwood Avenue flats, get together each year to turn an area where they live into a place everyone can enjoy. The secluded garden is surrounded by beech hedging and hosts attractive seating, fruit trees, sunflowers, stone ornaments and a water feature.

Norwood resident Pauline Kitchen has been busy keeping up to the garden for over 25 years and says it is more than just a patch of ground.

Pauline said: “The flats have had their problems with anti-social behaviour in the area but through the hard work of neighbours – both young and old – this colourful corner lifts everyone’s spirits. At this time year I just want to spend everyday in the garden and I find I can lose myself with a trowel and shovel. The garden is looking better than ever and attracting lots of birds and bees.”

Incommunities’ construction training team donated two handmade bird boxes in recognition of their work.