Finding Peat

[Wood~Ant]

As some of you know, I grow a small collection of carnivorous plants. These require a mixture of moss peat and fine sand to grow in, as they cannot grow in any compost containing soil or fertilizers.
I have found one garden centre which sells a large bale of peat, but not one that sell a small sized bale, as I don't need that much and peat left in my shed for longer than a year dries out and turns rock hard.

Some specialist nurseries sell a peat based compost for carnivorous plants, but as peat is not being sold so much in an effort to protect our environment, why don't garden centres just sell smaller bales instead of the large 100Kg bags I have found to be the only size available? 

I will have to buy some peat soon, as a few of my plants are already pushing at the sides of their pots and will need the extra space to grow. 

[crockatt]

I have a Venus flytrap I bought last year and to my surprise it is still alive, it has just finished flowering; but I want to pot it up, but cannot find the right stuff, mum keeps telling me to use spent compost but do not want to risk it, maybe get stuff on line, will have to check it out.

[Wood~Ant]

You can use sphagnum moss as a medium to grown sundews and Venus Fly Traps in. So if you have any boggy land nearby look out for it, although like most things the plants may be protected if the moss is growing on a conservation site.