Peatlands Expert Richard Lindsay Featured in Gardens Illustrated

December 31, 2021

Garden’s Illustrated magazine has added peatlands expert Richard Lindsay to their “Horticultural Who’s Who”, highlighting the growing understanding of the importance of peat in the fight against climate change.

Richard, head of conservation research at the University of East London, is involved with a number of environmental and research groups working to raise awareness of the importance of restoring and preserving peatlands. This includes work he’s done to help map the peat levels at the Marches Mosses.

As he explains, “Peatlands are the Cinderella habitat – unnoticed and undervalued – but they do so much for us. Just the top 30cm of a hectare of peatland can contain as much carbon as a hectare of rain forest, and a typical peat bog is three to ten metres deep. It’s Nature’s ultimate carbon-capture system.”

Richard’s inclusion in the Gardens Illustrated Who’s Who is another example of the connection between gardening and protecting our precious peatlands: every bag of peat-free compost we buy for our gardens means more peat is left in a peatbog – where it belongs to help us all preserve our planet. So please join the fight by going peat-free!