Update : over £900 raised in final tally.

It is a charity collection like no other.

A bucket for Macmillan Cancer Support, brimming with donations, as the Frome DIY chain Homebase puts out plants which would otherwise be left to rot.

It is the genius idea of Frome charity collector Peter Taylor, who already had links with the gardening store which closed on March 25.

Why leave all the plants and flowers rotting inside the store?

Put them outside on the pavement, and with safe social distancing in force, ask the public to help themselves.

Then very politely ask if they might consider a donation to the for vital cancer charity.

Pete told Nub News; " I have to say people have been very generous, we have been given £300 so far.

" Everyone has pretty much donated, but even if they didn't so much better than having these plants rotting away in the store."

Homebase's charity work for Macmillan is impressive. Last year collections in store raised, just in the one site, around £12,000.

Pete himself was involved in the Macmillan World's Biggest Coffee Morning appeal in Homebase back in September, which raised a record UK amount of £2,500.

Pete said: " Now these nurses who already do incredible work are being asked to back up NHS nurses, so we have even more reason to be grateful. Just glad to do my bit."

Pete also said he was taking a few of the plants to give to some of the nurses he knows " Just to cheer them up."