Pictured: SKY1's new show Mount Pleasant stars Sally Lindsay and Daniel Ryan - and, in the background, some of Derbyshire-based Plantscape's planters

Staff at a Derbyshire floral features are enjoying seeing the fruits of their labour in the limelight after their products appeared on a new hit TV show.

Workers at Plantscape, based in Hulland, near Ashbourne, have been glued to Mount Pleasant, a six-part comedy drama screened on Sky1 and starring Sally Lindsay, Liza Tarbuck and Angela Griffin.

But while most of the show's half-a-million-strong audience are watching the action in the foreground, staff have their eyes trained on the background, ready to spot their own products planted up with brightly coloured primroses and ivys.

The show, penned by Shameless writer Sarah Hooper, was filmed in Manchester earlier this year, with some of the outside action taking place in a street in Chorlton.

In order to make it look the part for TV audiences, the street was given a makeover by the show's makers, Tiger Aspect Productions, which rented a series of products from Plantscape, including 12 hanging baskets and floor-standing multi-tier planters.

Mark Stone, managing director of Plantscape, said: "The street in question is called Beech Road, and we were asked to provide our planters to help it look more colourful and attractive on screen.

"It's good fun looking out for them, and they certainly look the part. What's great for us is that although filming is now over, the hanging baskets are still there, because Tiger Aspect bought them and donated them to the local traders to say thank you for letting them film there."

It is not the first time Plantscape's products have hit the silver screen. Two of its multi-tier planters, positioned outside HMP Wandsworth Prison in London, once appeared on an episode of ITV's long-running cop show The Bill.