A HANLEY Castle business has helped a television gardener to create a garden for the Chelsea Flower Show.

Diarmuid Gavin, who appears on BBC2's Home Front, designed a garden featuring an outdoor office for the show but needed some sponsorship to realise the design.

A friend of Mr Gavin passed on his plea to Jim and Sally Pettipher, who run environmental business development company Green and Gold. They managed to enlist computer firm Microsoft to provide wireless software for the garden's outdoor office.

The Hanley Castle business was credited on last week's edition of Diarmuid's Big Adventure, a six-part programme on BBC2 following the gardener's progress.

Mrs Pettipher said: "We were really, really pleased. It was a fun thing to be involved with."

The Chelsea Flower Show runs from May 25-28 at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.