Given he is allowed to keep trading as a hardware store, he said it made absolutely no sense to shut down that part of his business as supermarkets continue to sell plants. "What they're trying to do is limit us so to not sell plants, and I'm saying it's wrong," Tony, 52, said. Exeter City Council ordered the store to stop selling garden plants, seeds, bulbs and other garden items immediately. "The issue is that the council agreed that we're a hardware store and can sell hardware equipment, they're trying to limit us to that," Tony said. (Image: SWNS)Tony said that supermarkets local to him were still allowed to sell plants, but despite this Exeter City Council were telling him he was not allowed to.

Source: Daily Mirror April 02, 2020 10:32 UTC