A PENSIONER who suffers from severe arthritis is singing her neighbour's praises after he transformed her garden from an overgrown mess into a blossoming paradise.

Brian Davis, of Grosvenor Walk, St John's, Worcester, has spent since March transforming his 74-year old neighbour Phyllis Morris's garden.

The garden had no flowerbeds and was overgrown, with an untidy privet hedge in it and pieces of stone strewn everywhere.

But now Brian, aged 58, has spruced it up by removing the hedge, making a garden seat, putting up hanging baskets, building pathways and a wall, seeding the lawn and making a gazebo.

"It really is very attractive and I'm very pleased with him. He's a very kind neighbour," said Phyllis.

"It looks so different to how it did before"

Brian has often spent all day tending to the garden and is currently adding the finishing touches to it.

He moved into the flat above Phyllis at the end of last year and offered to work on Phyllis's garden because her condition prevented her from tending it.

"I just like to see a good-looking garden and so I agreed to help her out," said Brian.

"It really is wonderful what he has done," said Phyllis's daughter Rose Hamer, of Lower Broadheath.

"He did it off his own back and, when I think of what it was like, he has done a wonderful job.

"It's not very often you will find neighbours who do that."