Thankfully, over the last couple of years, perhaps driven by Covid and people working from home and therefore wanting to improve their environment, interest in Houseplants has increased significantly and it became clear to us that our indoor plant offering was no longer big enough, with too small a selection of both plants and pots. Therefore, we were extremely excited to recently open our brand new Houseplant Department, located next to our Food Hall, with a far bigger range of plants and accessories. The whole department also has a close link to the history of the business and our association with Covent Garden, when we used to sell our home grown plants there. Andrew and James (our current Managing Directors), remember going up there a few times when they were children, in the very early hours of the morning, to help (well they thought they were being helpful!) and being amazed at the hustle and bustle of the market. It was almost like another world happening whilst everyone else was tucked up in bed, fast asleep. In the new department, you will see one of our displays has a backdrop of an original image of the H.Evans & Sons Ltd stall at Covent Garden Market, with John Evans (4th generation) and his father Cyril (3rd generation), hard at work.