{"id":134625,"date":"2023-11-28T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=134625"},"modified":"2023-11-28T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:52:47","slug":"garden-centres-struggling-to-get-venus-flytraps-after-john-lewis-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/garden-centres-struggling-to-get-venus-flytraps-after-john-lewis-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden centres &apos;struggling&apos; to get Venus flytraps after John Lewis ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Garden centres are &#8216;struggling&#8217; to get Venus flytraps on their shelves fast enough as John Lewis Christmas advert sends demand skyrocketing<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Commercial&#8217;s popularity sees sales of meat-eating plant spike by 2,000 per cent\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tunbridge Wells Garden Centre blames Brexit legislation for supply woes\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Garden centres are &#8216;struggling&#8217; to get Venus flytraps on their shelves fast enough after the John Lewis Christmas advert caused demand to skyrocket.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The heartwarming commercial, entitled Snapper: The Perfect Tree, shows a young boy befriend the grow-your-own Christmas tree which turns out to be a mischievous flytrap, a la Little Shop of Horrors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The advert, which stars opera legend Andrea Bocelli singing an original track called Festa, then sees the plant get dragged out into the cold, frosty garden and replaced with a traditional evergreen fir tree.<\/p>\n<p>The two-minute commercial ends with the boy rushing outside to place a present underneath the fly trap where he is joined by his family as the strapline &#8216;Let your traditions grow&#8217; appears.<\/p>\n<p>The popularity of the John Lewis advert has seen sales of the meat-eating plants spike by 2,000 per cent, leaving suppliers &#8216;flabbergasted&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/11\/78318865-12799641-image-a-26_1701171684217.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The John Lewis Christmas advert has seen demand for Venus flytraps skyrocket and garden centres say they are &#8216;struggling&#8217; to stock up shelves<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/11\/78318861-12799641-image-a-27_1701171688420.jpg\" height=\"321\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The heartwarming commercial, entitled Snapper: The Perfect Tree, shows a young boy befriend the grow-your-own Christmas tree<\/p>\n<p>But Brexit\u00a0legislation mean a &#8216;big struggle&#8217; for garden centres to obtain certificates for imported plants, some owners said today.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Children&#8217;s author accuses John Lewis of using the plot of a book he wrote 17 years ago in memory of his late son to make their Venus fly-trap Christmas advert\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Following Brexit, plants imported from the EU require a certificate and smaller orders need the same paperwork as bigger ones.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Holmes from Tunbridge Wells Garden Centre, part of the Blue Diamond Group, says they are facing delays in the plants reaching their shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Holmes told the BBC: &#8216;We can&#8217;t just get one or two trays through anymore, there&#8217;s legislation involved that is making it really hard to get hold of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s been 30 plus years we&#8217;ve been ordering these plants and there&#8217;ve been no issues. Hopefully we&#8217;ll have more before Christmas.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another garden centre owner says she is telling customers to place their orders in advance.<\/p>\n<p>She told the broadcaster: &#8216;We usually have a list of people wanting them and so people who have left their numbers, we give them a call and they go very quickly.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A government spokesperson said: &#8216;From 31st January 2024 a simplified, effective, risk-based system of biosecurity controls will be introduced at the GB border, removing low-risk plants from all import health controls and further reducing the burden on industry through a new &#8216;trusted trader&#8217; approach.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/11\/78318875-12799641-image-a-29_1701171708577.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One garden centre owner says she is telling customers to place their orders in advance. Ironically, flytraps go dormant in winter when their insect prey are in short supply<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/11\/78318855-12799641-image-a-28_1701171706313.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The popularity of the John Lewis advert has seen sales of the meat-eating plants spike by 2,000 per cent, leaving suppliers &#8216;flabbergasted&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/11\/78318857-12799641-image-a-30_1701171713530.jpg\" height=\"313\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But it turns out to be a mischievous flytrap, a la Little Shop of Horrors, and is dragged outside. But the ad ends with the family moving celebrations outside with the strapline &#8216;Let your traditions grow&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest supplier of flytraps to the British market is Netherlands firm Carni Flora, which would usually ship around 2,000 in the run-up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The nursery now expects to export at least 40,000 in December with owner Justin van Kessel declaring himself &#8216;flabbergasted&#8217; by the volume of orders.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;The level of demand is quite insane. Christmas has come early for us.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>John Lewis ordered several thousand flytraps from the Netherlands before its ad aired. It swiftly sold out of the \u00a310 plants in ceramic pots and has ordered more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, flytraps go dormant in winter when their insect prey are in short supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12799641\/venus-flytrap-john-lewis-christmas-advert-garden-centres-brexit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garden centres are &#8216;struggling&#8217; to get Venus flytraps on their shelves fast enough as John Lewis Christmas advert sends demand&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Garden centres &amp;apos;struggling&amp;apos; to get Venus flytraps after John Lewis ad - bluemull<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/garden-centres-struggling-to-get-venus-flytraps-after-john-lewis-ad\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Garden centres &amp;apos;struggling&amp;apos; 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