Sybil Spencer

With her husband and son she created the York Gate Garden.

After the deaths of her son and her husband she cared for the garden for twelve years leaving it to a charity to be shared by visitors.

[1] In 1951 the York Gate house at Adel near Leeds was purchased.

A garden was built consisting of different "rooms" in the Arts and Crafts style.

[2] Like her, Robin was a skilled plantsperson, but he had also collected an old water pump, griffin statues and cruck beams for the garden which were recycled from a local chapel.