Go Green, Grow Green, Get Green

[SpeareChucker]

The 1600s had the Dutch tulip market bubble. Now 2020 is doing the same for rare plants.

Interest in greenery has grown during the pandemic, with more people stuck at home and bored—and Instagram posts have helped send the market for unusual varieties into a tizzy. Growers, nurseries and plant shops are scrambling to keep up. The most coveted flora now fetch thousands of dollars. Plant flippers have jumped in to make a quick buck.

Jerry Garcia, a 27-year-old aircraft mechanic in San Diego, said in recent months he has been besieged by requests from people eager to buy a piece of his vast tropical-plants collection. During one week in August, he sold two small cuttings of a highly coveted Variegated Monstera Adansonii plant for $2,000 apiece. With proper care, the cuttings will eventually turn into plants.

“It’s better than the stock market,” Mr. Garcia said. “I got a bunch of these plants when they were in the double digits, and now they are in the four-digit realm.”

Shan Li, WSJ


https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget...are-plant-market-has-gone-bonkers-11600437284


And here I thought that pot was where the money was at.


SHOW ME THE GREEN!

 

[SpeareChucker]

I wonder if someone's parents were Dead Heads, or just oblivious...

 

[FescueFan]

I wasn't joking when I said I sold out right down to my personal seed/plant collection back in May and I even made a few compromises there for the right price too. I had a California juniper that was well over a century old and a ponderosa pine probably close to the century mark, both collected from the wild, that I let go for a premium.

2020 was a blowout for the plant nerds

 

[SpeareChucker]

I tried my hand at the little trees
but I just didn't have the patience.

One of them is by the back door;
about five-feet tall now...

 

[Conager]

I tried my hand at the little trees
but I just didn't have the patience.

One of them is by the back door;
about five-feet tall now...

I like the idea of them, but I would probably just fiddle with them too much.

I've always had a very green thumb but for some reason this place will not allow a plant to live. Something about the water I've even tried filtered water or bottled water didn't do any good.