Johnsons of Whixley, which sells over 5 million plants per year, said in a press release yesterday that the “bureaucratic burden” of Brexit had reduced revenue, increased cost and slowed its supply chain.

Red tape and a labour shortage leave retailers and millions of lockdown gardeners with scant pickings.

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 SCOTTISH business has revealed how it missed out on a whopping £50,000 worth of EU funding due to Brexit.

The BBC has spoken to three companies that trade heavily with the UK, to find out what changes consumers can expect after Brexit.

Shoppers frustrated by delays, shortages and rising costs.

A Devon garden centre company has blamed Brexit for a staff shortage as it gives away £100,000 worth of plants for free.

Venus flytraps are in short supply following a popular Christmas advert, and due to Brexit, garden centres say.

“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."

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.

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

Ban on plants being moved across Irish Sea is major setback for tree-planting programmes in region.

Most popular house plants cost eight per cent more than before Brexit, while garden centres have cut back options.

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.

There are strict rules on moving plants, plant cuttings and fresh flowers over the Channel because the UK is now seen as a 'third country' to the EU following full Brexit on January 1, 2021

Many Brits will be forced to go without a Christmas turkey this year because of Brexit labour shortages, MPs were told this afternoon.

Britain's turkey farmers will do their best to ensure Christmas "is as normal as it can be" but shortages are likely, an industry representative has warned.

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.

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.

So far Irish exporters, particularly those involved in the export of food products, live animals, animal products, plants, or plant products, have been immune to the full impact of Brexit.

Fields of flowers worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are being left to rot in Cornwall.

The timetable for the major new controls that have already been imposed and those that have been delayed

EU proposes the UK temporarily align on plant and animal rules to remove Irish Sea checks.

A top European Union official said Wednesday that Britain could face retaliatory tariffs or other sanctions after talks failed to resolve an increasingly heated dispute over implementation of their post-Brexit trade deal in Northern Ireland.

As the impact of Brexit continues to be felt, we are starting to see what new rules on bringing young plants into the country will mean to our farmers and growers.

Lord Frost, Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister, is reportedly considering allowing “lighter touch” controls on imports from 1 April.

‘This flies in the face of common sense and the government’s commitment to high levels of animal and human health,’ say experts.

Centers do not have the staff needed to look after the plants.

British growers and sellers fear government measures starting on 30 April could result in delays and plants being damaged.

Brexit is predictably causing delays and shortages. Phytosanitary regulations for the rest of the world are now imposed on seeds and plants from the EU. Products that were harmonised with UK standards till December 2020 may no longer be acceptable.

Horticulture businesses are experiencing "incredible frustration" at the new Irish Sea border arrangements, a trade body has said.

Plant supply has been tough, while Glendoick's field-grown ericaceous plant exports have been hamstrung by post-Brexit rules not allowing plants with soil on them to go to EU countries. However, Northern Ireland is back in the market after Westminster decided to break EU rules and allow exports.

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.

A major daffodil grower in the fens say they only have a fifth of their usual number of pickers this year because of Brexit.

The UK’s milk and cream exports to the EU have dropped by 96% ‘because of the post-Brexit trade deal’s red tape’, new figures show.

Costs finally revealed, as Northern Ireland secretary claims too much ‘doom and gloom’ around Brexit. / New post-Brexit border checks set to come into force in 2024 will cost UK companies at least £330m a year, Rishi Sunak’s government has admitted.

New APHA plant health fees of up to £183 could damage UK nurseries.

Many plants and seeds can no longer be shipped from Great Britain to Northern Ireland under the terms of the Brexit withdrawal deal.

For Beth Lunney the impact of Brexit and the Irish Sea border started to become clear in late November.

A renowned Lancashire based orchid expert has decided to stop selling hardy orchids after getting increasingly frustrated with red tape post-Brexit.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to the CBI about a visit to Peppa Pig World at Paultons Park in Hampshire this week, which led Agrumi to update on its fight to have its exports of ligustrum topiary sculptures be allowed to be exported again.

EU said agreement on common rules ‘on the table’ - but UK would probably have to drop prized right to diverge

UK-grown Ligustrum topiary plant sculptures cannot be exported to EU markets under current rules post-Brexit and Defra says there are no steps being taken to remedy this.

Increased costs and restrictions on the UK horticulture industry to export to the EU have seen a 39% drop in the value of trade in the first six months of the year.

Johnsons of Whixley group MD Graham Richardson is seeing a prolonged season but Brexit plant inspection costs - as well as the peat issue - are causing disquiet.

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.

Forcing all UK supermarkets to put “not for EU” labels on meat, dairy and plant products in a move to assuage the concerns of unionists in Northern Ireland will force up prices and undermine the war against inflation, ministers have been told.

Plant imports are up 11.5% and exports down 39% since Brexit according to new Defra Plant Health – international trade and controlled consignments statistics.

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.

After a Horticulture Week Freedom of Information request to Defra, the Government has disclosed the proportion of plant and seed imports that have been inspected since Brexit.

Minister expected to frame move as a use of UK’s independent powers despite industry reports of unreadiness.

According to reports, Britain faces a £2 billion post-Brexit bill on European food imports from the end of the month.

The government has admitted it will cost businesses £330m each year in additional charges when new post-Brexit border controls on animal and plant products imported from the European Union are implemented next year.

The U.K. is postponing checks on imported food and fresh products from the EU until the end of 2023, as it announced a review of the post-Brexit regime.

The Fresh Produce Consortium said the April draft proposals would have had a “devastating financial impact”.

There has been no progress made by Defra and the horticulture industry in securing permission for UK growers to export currently prohibited plants to the EU.

O'Meara's Garden Centre in Co Westmeath says the UK was their biggest source of plants after Ireland up to three or four years ago but they think within two years there will be no plants or seeds coming over the Irish Sea.

O'Meara's Garden Centre in Co Westmeath says they think within two years there will be no plants or seeds coming over the Irish Sea.

Firms across four different sectors share their stories of rising costs, extra paperwork and packages that never arrive.

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.