According to Catherine Dawson, Chair of the Growing Media Association, latest research shows retail buyers and consequently consumers have even more responsibility to act on the environment when choosing their growing media.

She says, " Its not just about habitat loss anymore. Undisturbed peatland has been found to store more carbon than the entire biomass of the world -once you start to harvest a peat-land that carbon is emitted.

It is incumbent on garden centre managers to bring that into their thinking when choosing products to stock."