Should supermarkets be banned from selling plants

I think @Adam I is saying he does not think there should be a "you can't sell plants" ban full-stop, @shiney, but rather it should be made awkward to sell them with rules about containers, use of pesticides, etc.

 

Rules regarding pots and pesticides would just mean the price of the plants would rise.
I think, there are fairly strict rules on what can and can't be used already.

 

Surely plant passports are only needed for export or import.
Are they different to phytosanitary certificates.

 

I don't bother to look at the plants in most supermarkets, but I must say Home Bargains and B&M Bargains have good garden departments (the ones near here do anyway) and the plants are mostly well looked after. Sometimes you can get quite unusual things in B&M , and they and Home Bargains have the plants displayed nicely too.

 

As annoying as our countries post brexit crackdown on plant imports is, its completely justified: germany and italy importing box topiary from china in the millions is the cause of native boxes possibly extinction in half of europe for example, and this has happened time and time again.
this isnt an issue of supermarkets alone but of mass-production and distribution, of international shipping. As with farming and crafts it hurts us economically too since the prices drop so far nobody small, or smaller than chinese city-factory scale can make a living.

if you do get plastic try to get hardier stuff like thick polypropelyne, that will at least last ages. people use plastic because its amazing stuff for dirt cheap

 

I was informed due to health and safety they don't like to water as if anyone slips/falls occur them may be liable.

Spruce

 

Agree about the fish. They barely manage to sell fresh dead fish; let alone live.

 

I quite often see those yellow warning signs in the supermarket where someone has spilled or broken something and made the floor slippery.

Have you tried Morrisons, best and cheapest fish I have found, even better than Waitrose which is expensive and poor in my opinion.
Don't even mention Tesco's.

 

In these parts all the fabulous plant nurseries have gone to make way for New build housing estates So in one respect the plants sold at the supermarkets are handy but as has been said the condition of them is a disgrace.I can't grasp why they don't water or better still stand the plants in water overnight and then at least they would be worth buying the next day.