Dahlia hysteria led to death threats: “Cracking people”

Dahlia tubers are highly sought after by gardeners.
Linnea Boqvist runs a gardening company, and has received death threats.
– A buyer wrote that I should go and hang myself, she says in Efter fem.

At the end of April reported Today’s industry that the hunt for the desirable dahlia tubers has gotten out of hand.

The tubers must be dug up in the autumn to avoid destruction before they bloom in their characteristic pink color in the spring season, and are hot wild food.

– It’s an ugly little potato tuber, and out of it comes something so magnificent, and it’s so hard to get hold of these “divas”, says garden entrepreneur Linnea Boqvist, who has soon sold out of her stock of 120,000 dahlia tubers.

“Several hundred emails a day – people break”

She tells how buyers crossed the line in their hunt for the tubers. One went so far as to threaten her with her life, which she has reported to the police.

– I have received a death threat and then it was a person who had not sent the correct information so she did not receive her package. And then she got very, very angry, and then she wrote that I should go and hang myself, otherwise she would be able to help me, says Linnea Boqvist.

– It’s not okay, and our mailboxes… there are several hundred emails a day. It breaks, I know colleagues who stopped their shopping because they can’t stand the anger. It’s like people don’t understand that there’s a human being behind it.