'Stupid' to grow petunias in peat, says Alys Fowler

Speaking at the Beth Chatto Symposium at University of Essex, garden writer and broadcaster Alys Fowler said the peat bog system is a "beautiful beast" but there is no "binding legislation" to stop them being mined.

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