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Australians bought more plants than ever in 2020 with COVID-19 lockdowns fuelling sales
Australians bought more plants than ever last year, with the country spending $2.6 billion on more than 2 billion plants.
Key points:
- The horticulture industry employs more than 23,000 people across more than 1,600 businesses
- Sales from production nurseries into retail garden centres grew 10 per cent last year
- A separate trend report shows respondents intend to keep growing their own edible and indoor plants
People stuck at home in 2020 during the first wave of COVID-19 restrictions unsurprisingly accounted for a significant portion of growth, with indoor plant sales rising nine per cent.
After joining toilet paper and pasta on the list of panic-buying items at the start of the pandemic, sales of herb and vegetable plants shot up 27 per…
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