"It's the busiest the business has ever been, and we're doing things at a scale that is just remarkable," Tim Johnson, a partner at Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design in Miami. He said the wealthy are demanding nondisclosure agreements to keep their horticultural endeavors super secret.
Johnson said several wealthy clients bought properties next store to demolish the home and extend their gardens.
A few years back, he said one of his clients was in a bidding war with basketball star Michael Jordan over a 45-foot canopied oak tree.
Cash-strapped elites don't want to wait two decades to see a tree grow, and this is primarily why many of them are purchasing trees with a price range of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on the species of the tree and, of course, appearance.