From chaos and sky-high prices to a stable industry

The market for succulent plants has taken two decades to reach maturity

Cheng Yajing has worked with succulent plants for the past 20 years, which means her career has paralleled the steady growth of the industry in China.

In 1998 she graduated from the school of landscape architecture at China University of Agriculture and started to work in Beijing Botanical Garden, becoming one of the first people to prepare to build the tropical conservatory of the garden.