Bibliography
Appendix
1: UK Mushroom Producers
Appendix 2: Peat
suppliers to the amateur gardening market
Appendix 3: British peat extraction sites
Appendix 4: Planner contacts
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Appendix 1: UK Mushroom
Producers39
James A Gooding Elite Mushrooms Flixton Mushrooms
Monahan Middlebrook Woodlands Mushroom Farm Orchard Mushrooms
Tas Valley Mushrooms J Rothwell & Son Hughes Mushrooms
Pond Chase Nurseries Capel Mushrooms McGeary Mushroom Farms
Winterpick Mushrooms Layer Mills Mill Mushrooms
Chesswood Produces Magee’s Nurseries Drinkwater’s
Mushrooms
Blue Prince Mushrooms H G Bird Harpers Hill Mushrooms
Halfland Mushrooms Greenmyre Mushroom Farm Fiddleford Musrooms
Kentdown Mushrooms Springfield Mushrooms Birnam Mushrooms
Southdown Mushrooms Aylesbury Mushrooms Chislet Mushrooms
Baron Jackson Welsh Mushrooms
Appendix 2: Peat suppliers to the amateur gardening
market
Garden Centres
Dobbies Garden Centres plc
Head Office: Melville Nursery, Lasswade, Midlothian, EH18 1AZ,
Tel: 0131 663 6778,
Fax: 0131 654 2548, Email: postmaster@dobbies.com
, Website: www.dobbies.com
Klondyke Garden Centres Ltd
Head office: Beancross Road, Polmont, FK2 0XS, Tel: (01324)
711727,
Website: www.klondyke.co.uk
Notcutts Garden Centres
The Nursery, Cumberland Street, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 4AF,
383344,
Website: www.notcutts.co.uk
Wyevale Garden Centres
Head office: King Acre Road, Hereford, HR4 0SE, Tel: 0800 413213,
Website: www.wyevale.co.uk
DIY Chains
B&Q
Head Office: Portswood House, 1 Hampshire Corporate Park, Chandlers
Ford, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO53 3YX, Website: www.diy.com
Homebase
Homebase Ltd, Customer Relations Department, Beddington House,
Railway Approach, Wallington, SM6 0HB, Tel: 020 8784 7200, Fax:
020 8784 7755
Email: enquiries@homebase.co.uk , Website: www.homebase.co.uk
Focus Wickes
Head office: Gawsworth House, Westmere Drive, Crewe, Cheshire,
CW1 6XB,
Tel: 0800 436 436, Email: info@focusdiy.co.uk , Website: www.focusdiy.co.uk
Supermarkets
Tesco40
Head office: Tesco House, Delamare Rd, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire,
EN8 9SL, Tel: 01992 632222 Website: www.tesco.com
J Sainsbury plc41
Head office: Holborn Place, 33 Holborn, London EC1N 2HT, Tel:
0207 695 6227,
Website: www.j-sainsbury.co.uk
Safeway
Head Office: 6 Millington Rd, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 4AY, Tel:
01622 712987,
Website: www.safeway.co.uk
ASDA
ASDA House, Southbank, Great Wilson Street, Leeds, LS11 5AD,
Tel: 0500 100055,
Fax: 0113 241 7732, Website: www.asda.co.uk
Appendix 3: British peat extraction sites
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Appendix 4: Planner contacts
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