I came across this Washington Post article about succulents poached from the Northern California coast via a reprint in the Denver Post. So, among all three locales – DC, Mendocino, Denver – I guess we’ve got the entire country covered, eh? But about those sneaky succulent poachers…
“$600K worth?”
“Overseas, retail for as much as $50 each?”
“Huge among housewives?”
“Succulent craze gone global?”
Holy cow – talk about a lucrative side-hustle!
Or, as one prescient DP site commentator put it so pithily:
“The apocalypse can’t come soon enough.”
Bonus Mendocino Coast Botanic Garden photos, here. Sorry, no succulents. Guess they all got poached?
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Ah, found one.
Ah, the famous ‘pre-tequila’ agave plant. Well, if I thought I could move it, I would’ve poached that one too.