Anjo Boarda in his most recent exhibition, MINE, digs into the lucrative plant industry currently trending in the Philippines. A Google search for “plants for sale” yields about 129,000 hits in under a second. With social media sites full of flexers of expensive plants cherished for their aesthetics and limited supply, prices for some choice plant babies can cost as high as 300,000 pesos, with even then-neglected greenery now being poached and sold at online and physical markets. “Mine” is the word used by enthusiastic plant collectors to get first dibs on the plant of their choice, and translates collecting foliage to hunting for treasure and harvesting the earth’s bounty for business and pleasure.