The importance of growing media in horticulture and landscaping
The UK uses over 3 million cubic metres of growing media each year. Roughly a quarter of that is used by professional growers to produce plants for the UK's parks and gardens, with the rest purchased by consumers for use in their gardens. Around 1,000 jobs in the UK are provided in the manufacture of growing media. Further along the supply chain, without high quality growing media for professional growers far fewer of the £1.3 billion of plants that UK growers produce would be grown competitively in the UK.