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Fashion for artificial lawns could harm garden industry’s green image, seed firm warns


Johnsons Lawn Seed has warned that reports of rising sales of artificial turf could damage the garden industry’s green image and undermine the sector’s efforts to reduce its dependency on unsustainable plastic. A report in The Daily Mail, headlined ‘As plastic plants get more realistic, here’s the lazy gardener’s guide to faking it,’ told how sales of artificial turf rose by 136% at B&M stores in 2018. But Johnsons Lawn Seed, the UK’s oldest lawn seed brand, pointed out that the rising tide of plastic turf on sale at retail outlets flies in the face of consumer demand for organic and sustainable gardening products.


Johnsons Lawn Seed’s Guy Jenkins said: “It has been well documented that consumers are looking to garden in a sustainable manner and reduce their use of plastics in the garden. We believe that retail outlets should be throwing the spotlight on the environmental benefits of real lawns, instead of promoting artificial turf that only serves to cover gardens in a sea of unsustainable plastic.”


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