Plants and hanging baskets brought early summer brilliance to a Witney trading estate.

The flowers at the Bromag Estate, Burford Road, attracted visitors to Thursday's open day for the Holyrood Gardens project.

May Pimm tends flowers on the estate

It was set up in 1987 at Holyrood House in South Leigh, a residential home for 20 adults with learning disabilities, but is now based on a business estate.

Juliet Cornford, of the Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust, said: "It has grown and flourished at the new site.

"The project now runs a market stall in Witney outside the main post office on Tuesdays, selling plants and hanging baskets and hand-made wreaths at Christmas. It also does lawn-mowing, garden clearance, pruning, planting, digging and garden design."

Although it retains the name of Holyrood Gardens, the project has moved into a wide range of horticultural practices and offers training for employment.

Picture: Damian Halliwell