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“Every day has been like a bank holiday. That’s good but it’s definitely causing some issues because it’s not just English garden centres that are booming, it’s all across Europe, so it’s causing issues with supply,” he said.
Like many garden centres, Byrne has been contacting suppliers across Europe and China to help ship garden gnomes to the UK.
Gnomes of any type are in short supply. Photograph: Robert Maple/Getty/EyeEm
He said: “Raw materials are becoming a bit of an issue and unfortunately gnomes are a victim of that shortage … Gnomes of any type – plastic, stone or concrete – are in short supply. They’ve been very popular over the last couple of seasons, we’ve seen a massive upswing in the sales of gnomes and definitely a different clientele wanting gnomes too.”
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The pandemic, as well as the Suez canal ship blockage are being blamed for an unusual shortage in the UK - of garden gnomes.
A boom in sales when Brits were stuck at home - garden centres were open during the nation s three lockdowns - as well as a shortage in materials are being blamed for the scarcity.
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There is a shortage of garden gnomes in the UK.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Ian Byrne, assistant manager of Highfield Garden World in Whitminster, west of London, told the BBC there had been a massive upswing in sales. We haven t seen a gnome in six months now unfortunately, he said.
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