Green-fingered Grace Hills creates a ‘Garden of Eden’ in Kirkstall

A Kirkstall resident has turned her city street into a real-life ‘Garden of Eden’ by planting its verges with wildflowers and fruit trees.

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00:00Hi, I'm Grace Hills and I live here in Kirkstall and we have created the Garden of Eden on

00:06our street with the neighbours and the neighbours' kids. We have transformed the grass verges

00:12into wildflower meadows that connect up, which is amazing for the pollinators, for bees and

00:17butterflies in this area. We've done this because we really care about the environment,

00:21care about the climate and ecological emergency that's happening right now, and we want to

00:25do something to help the pollinators, to make positive change in the community. I think

00:33so much of the green message is things that you can't do, things that you're not allowed

00:37to do, but we want to show what a green vision and a green environment and community can

00:43look like, because there's so many positive things and it's brought the community together.

00:47We've planted trees and flowers and we've grown vegetables. So I would really love to

00:52see this elsewhere in the country and hope that it inspires other people to go out there

00:57and do some guerrilla gardening.