Fooled by a Wildflower Scam, Left With So Many Questions
There’s gotta be a more profitable way to make $9
Living where I do in southeast Louisiana, I’m well aware of plant rustlers who do things like dig up and sell all the native carnivorous plants on Instagram. These people have pushed our local pitcher plants to near extinction. Don’t buy this stuff. I never see a pitcher plant in the wild anymore. They’ve all been stolen to sell on Facebook Marketplace or maybe to the garden center of the local big box store.
In fact, at the very outdoor “plant sale” where I just bought the wildflowers in the top picture, I saw a guy set up to sell Venus Fly Traps out of the tailgate of his truck.
I can’t prove it, but those plants were poached. I know it in my gut.
Should have turned around and gone home right then and there…
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