Enter the Gardens through the Clarkehouse Road gatehouse and immediately on your left nestled next to the Curator’s House, now Joni’s café, you will see a magnificent specimen of Arbutus unedo, the ‘Strawberry Tree.’ An evergreen, it is unusual in having flower and fruit at the same time, especially notable in the late autumn and early winter. An attractive and distinctive plant it was awarded the RHS AGM in 2002 and this particular example is the Yorkshire species champion.