When green waves came splashing over the internet

Gone are the days when a lack of supply had the price of some succulent plants in the stratosphere.

Zhou Jianqiao has no doubt about it: the flower power he now wields is largely attributable to pixel power.

"The popularity of succulent plants in China comes from the internet," says Zhou, founder of Zhejiang Wanxiang Flower Company Limited, in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, said to be the largest succulents company in China.