{"id":28782,"date":"2026-05-22T21:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/?p=28782"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:07:25","slug":"how-much-is-a-weed-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/how-much-is-a-weed-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is a weed worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was a time when a tulip was worth more than a house.<br>Not because it was botanically exceptional.<br>It became a trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ile-wart-jest-chwast-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28779\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Fashion met the market and speculation emerged.<br>In 17th-century Holland, bulbs were sold for the price of entire fortunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1281\" height=\"1283\" src=\"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-05-22_210451.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28778\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the fascination faded, the value disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This story is not about tulips.<br>It is about a mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The value of plants rarely comes solely from their nature.<br>More often, it comes from the taste of an era and the narratives built around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ile-wart-jest-chwast-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28780\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That is why one plant is desired, while another is called a \u201cweed.\u201d<br>All it takes is a shift in aesthetics and the roles are reversed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So who really influences plant selection, the market, fashion, or us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when a tulip was worth more than a house. Not because it was botanically exceptional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28784,"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782\/revisions\/28784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiktorklyk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}