Horticulture Week has lifted peat up the political agenda in November with seven of the top 40 stories being about the issue, culminating in a landmark poll which saw 76% of respondents say they want to keep using it.
Among other most-read stories, Brexit, new businesses, levy, health and safety and pest and disease stories featured.
What Burston leaving the bedding market might mean
12 different views presented on peat in the last week
Do you want to carry on using peat? Garden centre sold Online gardening - who's ranked highest? Peat at COP26 - commercial horticulture peat reduction proves difficult to talk about Peter Seabrook makes peat plea Gardening start-ups - who's entering the market? Garden supply company directors deny corporate manslaughter Plant royalty manager wins injunction What's peat's future after 76% vote to keep using it? Movers and people this week UPDATED Peat poll receives hundreds of responses as it nears deadline Most successful garden companies during lockdown Northern Ireland garden centre owner travelling to England to collect plants UK growers to miss IPM Essen Indoor plant retailer doubles turnover and reaches 55 garden centres Thirty new Companies House results Who is the RHS looking for to replace Sue Biggs? Roger Phillips dies aged 88 £50 an hour offered to visit garden centres What are the new breed of garden centre concessions? Defra seeks reformed AHDB levy, despite industry vote to end payment + REACTION Tree surgeon fined after 16-year-old employee sustains life-changing injuries AHDB sends grower levy payers final demand with £10.6m wind down costs identified What the horticulture industry really thinks about peat Christmas tree prices - why not to panic Are there enough trees to meet demand? Poinsettias return to Double H after five years - market overview Dobbies appoints from Sainsbury, RHS and Butlins Real Christmas trees prices compared UPDATED Garden centre for auction Garden centre crime warning after break in Chelsea Flower Show 2022 - what we know so far Garden centre plan approved Horticulture haulage issues smoothed by driver pay rises Asian hornet nests found in southern England Record year for Hillier Burston Nurseries ends wholesale bedding plant supply after 58 years
