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More ferries are to sail directly from Ireland to the European mainland in a move to circumvent the traditional trade route over mainland England and Wales.
Horticulture businesses are experiencing "incredible frustration" at the new Irish Sea border arrangements, a trade body has said.
For Beth Lunney the impact of Brexit and the Irish Sea border started to become clear in late November.
The NI agriculture minister has asked his counterparts in London and Dublin to take a joint approach to post-Brexit problems in the horticulture sector.
Many plants and seeds can no longer be shipped from Great Britain to Northern Ireland under the terms of the Brexit withdrawal deal.
North Yorkshire-based commercial nursery, Johnsons Of Whixley, says it has had to stop supplying plants to Northern Ireland after new Brexit restrictions came into play in January.
One of the UK’s leading commercial nurseries has had to stop supplying plants to Northern Ireland after new Brexit restrictions came into force in January.
Ban on plants being moved across Irish Sea is major setback for tree-planting programmes in region.
“It’s a disaster. They’re just stopping any exports from mainland UK over to Northern Ireland. We can’t get any trees over from any of the nurseries that would usually deal with."
Fields of flowers worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are being left to rot in Cornwall.
The world's largest daffodil grower says it has been forced to let hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of flowers rot – as it can't get pickers due to Brexit.
Red tape means Neil Alcock’s Seiont Nurseries in Caernarfon has a four-day marathon via France, Holland and England – at £280 a trolley instead of £100
Lord Frost, Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister, is reportedly considering allowing “lighter touch” controls on imports from 1 April.
The timetable for the major new controls that have already been imposed and those that have been delayed
But as a lockdown boom drives demand, retailers are warning of a looming cactus crisis. Brexit is being blamed. / The British Cactus and Succulent Society said bureaucracy and border checks may ruin the hobby.
In a “normal year” around 150 pickers would harvest the daffodils, but this year they have just 30.
EU said agreement on common rules ‘on the table’ - but UK would probably have to drop prized right to diverge
A major daffodil grower in the fens say they only have a fifth of their usual number of pickers this year because of Brexit.
Red tape and a labour shortage leave retailers and millions of lockdown gardeners with scant pickings.
Plant and seed importers are asking why they are bothering with additional post-Brexit paperwork and expense when their plants are not always being inspected under new import controls.
Firms across four different sectors share their stories of rising costs, extra paperwork and packages that never arrive.
The renewed tension in Northern Ireland could have far-reaching implications for the future of the United Kingdom - and post-Brexit relations with the EU.
A survey of garden centres in Flemish Brabant has found that many of them are currently suffering from a shortage of flowers, trees and plants for sale to their green-fingered customers.
Shoppers frustrated by delays, shortages and rising costs.