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Photo credits

The photos on this site are illustrative images from free image libraries. They do not show our own products or our own company. Below you can see who made each photo, where it comes from and under which licence we use it.

Raw materials

Photo	What you see	Creator	Source	Licence	Changes
	Loose, fibrous sphagnum peat in close-up, mid-brown in warm evening light Attribution required. Photo: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed. The adapted version is available under the same licence.	Ragesoss	Wikimedia Commons	CC BY-SA 3.0	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Two compressed blocks of coir pith on a drying floor of loose, fine, reddish-brown coir pith	Rajesh M	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Medium-coarse pieces of tree bark with layered flakes, seen from above	Tasha k	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Expanded perlite granules filling the frame, with a few yellowish granules among them Attribution required. "Perlite1" by KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed. The adapted version is available under the same licence.	KENPEI	Wikimedia Commons	CC BY-SA 3.0	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Loose wood fibres in woolly tufts, filling the frame	Øyvind Holmstad	Wikimedia Commons	CC0 1.0	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Freshly cut peat sods, wet and almost black, in close-up, with small pools of water between them	Pix Tresa	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Cut coir chips in close-up: pale, orange-brown cubes of coconut husk with loose fibres Attribution required. Photo: Coconutsl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed. The adapted version is available under the same licence.	Coconutsl	Wikimedia Commons	CC BY-SA 4.0	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.

Additives

Photo	What you see	Creator	Source	Licence	Changes
	Round fertiliser granules in beige, pink and purplish brown, in close-up	Wanasanan Phonnaun	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Small heap of round, ochre-coloured fertiliser granules on a black surface	Zemos	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Pressed, olive-brown fertiliser pellets made from sheep's wool, filling the frame in bright sunlight Attribution required. Photo: RolfSr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed. The adapted version is available under the same licence.	RolfSr	Wikimedia Commons	CC BY-SA 4.0	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Fine white powder with a small hollow in it, slightly crystalline up close	Jonathan Borba	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Angular granules of fired clay, grey-brown to ochre, in warm evening light Attribution required. "Arcillite, larger grains" by Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed. The adapted version is available under the same licence.	Ragesoss	Wikimedia Commons	CC BY-SA 3.0	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Wet, almost black soil with fibres in extreme close-up, glistening with moisture	Artem Podrez	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.

Mixes

Photo	What you see	Creator	Source	Licence	Changes
	Brown, fibrous potting mix with white granules scattered through it, in close-up	feey	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Dark, peaty potting mix with fibres and small clods	Santosh Kumar	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Warm brown, crumbly substrate with pale fibre strands in close-up, with a germinating seed at the centre	Nikolett Emmert	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Plug tray of fine, dark brown substrate with a newly germinated seedling in every cell, in close-up	Devi Puspita Amartha Yahya	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Coarse, dark brown mix of bark pieces, twigs, root fragments and fibres, seen from directly above	Zoshua Colah	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Hand letting dark potting mix with small white granules fall back into a black plastic tub full of soil	Zoe Richardson	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Black, crumbly soil in a wooden-framed vegetable bed with rows of young seedlings, seen from low to the ground	Markus Spiske	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Green hand trowel full of airy potting mix with small white granules on a zinc worktop, beside a small green-glazed pot	Neslihan Gunaydin	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Black nursery pot of dark, coarse, fibrous substrate with a seedling at the centre, in close-up	Geri Jean	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Large heap of dark compost in bright sunlight at a composting site, with machinery behind it Attribution required. Photo: Ckgurney, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed. The adapted version is available under the same licence.	Ckgurney	Wikimedia Commons	CC BY-SA 3.0	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.

Packaging and transport

Photo	What you see	Creator	Source	Licence	Changes
	Dozens of filled white big bags with dark lifting loops, stacked outdoors under a blue sky	Liosha Shyp	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Stacked compressed bales wrapped in pale, greenish-white film, with no printing	Ries Bosch	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Open black plastic bag of dark potting mix with a white scoop in it, standing on pale gravel	Karola G (Kaboompics)	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Fine, brown, loose material in a steel processing machine, in close-up	Paul Abel	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Tall stacks of empty wooden pallet crates in a yard in front of a brick shed, with an old red tractor among them	Aleksander Dumała	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Yellow wheel loader loading steaming compost into a green tipping trailer behind a tractor, among tall heaps of compost	Mark Stebnicki	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.

Services

Photo	What you see	Creator	Source	Licence	Changes
	Clear rack of glass test tubes, one of them holding a rooted plant cutting in water	Mikhail Nilov	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Two hands holding up a young plant with small yellow flowers and a root ball of dark substrate, in a plastic greenhouse	Pasquale Farro	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.

Crops

Photo	What you see	Creator	Source	Licence	Changes
	Modern glasshouse full of green plants on support stakes, backlit, with a misting system running	Katrien Van crombrugghe	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Greenhouse full of flowering bedding plants in red, yellow, pink and blue-purple, with long rows of hanging pots above	Rebecca Niver	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Outdoor nursery with a field of potted irises edged by trees; in the middle a gardener with a straw hat and a hose	Alex Lian	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Rows of young shrubs with orange-red buds in black pots outdoors, with the substrate visible in the pots	Anna Khomutova	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Bench full of black plug trays with young lettuce and vegetable plants in green and red, in a plastic greenhouse	Zoe Richardson	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Young vegetable plants in round black pots of dark potting mix, set close together, seen from above	Markus Spiske	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Flowering azaleas, white with a pink edge, in terracotta pots on a wire-mesh bench	Anna Zhilina	Pexels	Pexels License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Row of small citrus trees with ripe yellow fruit in large terracotta pots on a stone ledge against a pale wall	Anita Austvika	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Two hands in yellow work gloves firming a young plant into dark, loose soil, with a hand trowel	Erwin Bosman	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.
	Polytunnel full of houseplants: large jade plants and other succulents in black nursery pots on gravel	Tommy Bond	Unsplash	Unsplash License	Cropped and resized; colour lightly corrected where needed.

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