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

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

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.

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

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.

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.