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Green Fingered Businesses
Gardening had long been a very British pastime, but now it's bigger than ever.
Our growing affluence and a burgeoning consumer culture feeds interest in dozens of gardening magazines and TV and radio programmes. Gardening personalities like Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock have become A-list celebrities.
Thousands of garden centres throughout the land are teeming every weekend. Almost everyone has an opinion on decking versus water features.
And so today gardening is big business too.
Everything that we use to make our gardens bloom has a business behind it, from turf to fencing, bulbs to border plants, pots to weedkiller. And that's before we've started on barbecues or garden furniture.
In fact it's estimated that we spend a total of £5 billion on our gardens each year in the UK - £110 million a year just on decking, for example.
But at the same time, a combination of new laws and organic-minded consumers are changing the face of this gardening business. There is a whole new range of green products for the green-fingered, offered by a variegated range of businesses.
In this programme Heather talks to some of the people behind this business about the high stakes and amazing changes in this fast-growing corner of consumer culture.
The programme includes an interview with Stefano Sogni of Zelari Piante and a report on top soil production by British Sugar.
Guests
Stephen Woodhams
Woodhams
Ian Hodgson
Editor of RHS magazine The Garden
James Harris
Pro Turf
Larry Snell
The Oxford Bee Company
David Pitman
Wiggly Wigglers
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