Spring Plant Sale raises thousands for New Heli Appeal

Cornwall Air Ambulance opened its doors for the annual Spring Plant Sale on Saturday 18^th May.

Around 700 green-fingered visitors attended, raising over £5000 for the charity. As well as picking up plants, visitors also took the opportunity to meet the crew, see the helicopter up close, enter the Grand Draw to win a MINI and grab a bargain from the pop-up charity shop.

Falmouth Shout entertained the masses, performing sea shanties and Rapid Relief Team returned once again with a tasty barbecue.

Gemma Kidd, In-house Events Fundraising Officer, said: “The Spring Plant Sale continues to be one of our most popular and well supported events. Thank you to all who came along.

“We are so grateful to the many local garden centres and nurseries who have donated to the sale- a huge thank you to all of them.

“Cornwall Air Ambulance carries out more the 800 lifesaving missions each year. All the money raised at the Spring Plant Sale will go towards keeping the air ambulance flying and saving lives across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.”

Local nurseries and garden centres kindly donated plants for the sale, thank you to the following:

Anthony Woodland Garden

Blackacre Nurseries

Bodmin Plant & Herb Nursery

Browns Nurseries

Cedar Croft Plants

Cornish Rose Company, The

Falmouth Garden Centre

Fentongollan Farm

Golden Bank Nurseries

Goonhavern Garden Centre

Hardy Exotics

Hidden Valley Gardens

Homeleigh Garden Centre (Bude)

Kernock Park Plants

Lower Kenneggy Nurseries

Lower Trenowth Farm

Millenium Plants

Mole Valley Farmers

Old Withy Garden Nursery

Penventon Nursery

Rising Sun Nurseries

Roseland Plant Centre

Sustainable Furniture

Trebah Gardens

Tregothnan

Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens

Treseders Wall Cottage Nursery

Trevisker Garden Centre

Trewidden Gardens