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image captionHighfield Garden World in Whitminster, Gloucestershire, has not had any gnomes in stock for the past six months
Supply chain issues and the popularity of garden centres during lockdown are causing a shortage of garden gnomes.
The ornaments are in short supply with raw materials hard to come by and the recent blockage of the Suez Canal contributing to the national shortage.
Ian Byrne, assistant manager of Highfield Garden World in Whitminster, said there had been a massive upswing in the sales of garden gnomes. We haven t seen a gnome in six months now unfortunately, he said.
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