WORKERS with a charity which offers work to adults with learning disabilities have won a silver medal at a prestigious flower show.

Northdale Horticulture, in Northallerton, was awarded the medal for its magical pocket garden display at this year’s Harrogate Spring Flower Show.

The enchanted fairy garden, which measures one metre by one metre, included a tiny Romany caravan, miniature allotment and a pint-sized merry-go-round and fairy house - all set in a colourful landscape of flowers and plants.

The garden has been brought back to Northdale Horticulture’s premises on Yafforth Road, and recreated in the charity’s shop for customers.

Throughout summer there will also be fairy doors for children to decorate in the charity’s new pop-up tea room and then place in the site’s woodland.

Garden designer Jane Corbett from the charity, which offers work and training to adults with disabilities, said it was a real team effort.

She said: “It has been an amazing achievement and one that has brought the whole of the Northdale team together.

“The wood work department made all the fairy adornments, the art studio decorated the Romany caravan, the nursery grew the plants and the landscaping team went to the showground to build it.

“Winning the silver medal really gave our trainees a sense of achievement.

“It will be wonderful for children to come down and visit us during the summer, look at the garden and fill our woods with fairy doors too. A real celebration of the magical world of fairies.”

Northdale Horticulture is open Monday to Friday from 9am until 5pm and weekends from 10am until 4pm.