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In March 2020, with the first wave of lockdowns looming, many Australians thought to seize the moment and turn the enforced home time into a mini season of
The Block: Garden Week. Bunnings’ queues and profits increased (earnings grew 13 per cent for the 2019-20 financial year), and nurseries were picked over quick. “It was a mad time,” says Josh O’Meara, Director of The Jungle Collective – Australia’s biggest pop-up plant nursery company, which host pop-up sales around the country.
“Stuck at home, people went crazy with plant purchases. There just weren’t enough plants going around in the end. Lockdown also coincided with winter, which is when there’s always shortages of plants anyway so it was really a bit of a challenge.”
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