10 Episodes

  1. Check out the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast

    Published: 08/06/2023

  2. Episode 8: The Destroyer of Worlds

    Published: 31/05/2023

  3. Episode 7: The Tree That Bleeds

    Published: 24/05/2023

  4. Episode 6: The Gray Market

    Published: 17/05/2023

  5. Episode 5: Business Opportunities

    Published: 10/05/2023

  6. Episode 4: Charming Personalities

    Published: 03/05/2023

  7. Episode 3: A Peculiar Hobby

    Published: 26/04/2023

  8. Episode 2: Plant Mania

    Published: 19/04/2023

  9. Episode 1: Unscrupulous Collection

    Published: 12/04/2023

  10. Introducing: Bad Seeds

    Published: 05/04/2023

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The biggest black market you’ve never heard of is blooming right under your nose. Whether it’s a 4,000-pound cactus shoveled from the Arizona desert or delicate orchids pinched from the tangled jungle of Peru, rare plants are at the center of a rapidly growing and lucrative world of crime. Hosted by plant expert Summer Rayne Oakes, Bad Seeds plunges straight into it, featuring the buyers, the sellers, the obsessives, and those who came face-to-face with the criminals behind an underworld few know exist.

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