Suppliers who contributed to shopping channel QVC's Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Day 2015 activities have helped raise in excess of £50,000 for the charity.
To raise the funds, presenter Richard Jackson hosted four Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Day programmes on QVC, which ran for an unprecedented six hours over three days back in March.

During the broadcasts a minimum of £1 was donated from each unit sold by all the contributing suppliers to the special shows.

Plants2Gardens - just one of the suppliers involved in the shopping channel's support of Garden Re‐Leaf Day ‐ raised over £10,000 alone. Earlier this month Greenfingers head of fundraising, Linda Petrons, visited Plants2Gardens managing director, Ken Evans, to collect a cheque for £10,989.

On receiving the cheque Linda Petrons commented: "What can we say...we are completely blown away by the incredible amount of money raised by the QVC programmes. Thank you so much to Plants2Gardens for their extremely generous donation and to all the other suppliers for kindly donating money from all the products they sold. Thanks also of course to QVC for giving us so much airtime!"

Other suppliers involved in providing products for the special shows included Hayloft, Montrose of Guernsey, De Jager, Unwins, Golden Gark, Wet & Forget, Bernini Fountains, Gripeeze gloves, Lawn Magic and Langdon European, as well as presenter Richard Jackson's own Garden Care Range.

Mr Jackson, who is also the founder president of Greenfingers, said: "Our success with fundraising through the QVC shows could not have happened without the generosity of our suppliers, or indeed the viewers that purchased the products - many of which sold out in minutes. The money we have together raised is quite simply a life changing amount for the children and families that use our hospice gardens ‐ thank you!"

This year's Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Day took place on March 27 and saw garden centres, nurseries, suppliers and grower uniting to raise funds for the charity.

Other activities included a 20-plus mile Thames walk, the 'glovies' campaign, which took social media by storm and many individual events organised by garden centres across the country.

The final figure from Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Day 2015 will be announced later in the year, along with details on how funds from this year's activities will contribute to children's hospice gardens across the country.