Kenya Is Now The World’s 4th Largest Flower Grower

Laura Northrup, The Consumerist
Fri, 02/12/2016 - 9:53am

If you give or receive any flowers this Valentine’s Day, they were most likely imported from somewhere with a much warmer climate and lower wages than the United States. On Valentine’s Day, when tradition demands that massive amounts of roses be ready all at once, many of the flowers delivered or aavailable for sale may have come from Kenya, which has a great climate for delivering roses in mid-February, and has less demand from its recent biggest customers. The Netherlands are a temperate outlier here, but most of the major flower-supplying nations are cool and elevated.

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