Expect low inventories, shipping delays, and a lack of labor to drive up perennial and nursery plant prices this year.

Amy Upton with the Michigan Nursery Landscape Association tells Brownfield, “One of the big factors that is affecting any type of plants is with shipping—I’m just hearing horror stories.”

Michigan, the largest nursery stock producer in the Midwest, sources many of their seedling starts from Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, but Upton says shipping costs are double or triple that of even last year.

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