A group of Horsham gardening friends have received a letter of thanks from a cancer research institute for their voluntary efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The group had been growing, bunching and selling flowers for charity for about five years – with this year’s efforts going towards Ballarat’s Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute.
The keen gardening contingent donated $1400 after their yearly Mother’s Day fundraiser to an institute that was founded following 14-year-old Fiona Elsey’s death due to cancer in 1991.
Institute director Dr George Kannourakis passed on his thanks in a letter to the gardeners for their efforts in selling more than 250 bunches of flowers.