Say it with living flowers

WITH Valentine’s Day approaching, love is in the air and so too are the clichés of cards, chocolates, flowers, romantic dinners and even, wedding proposals.

More often than not, the blur caused by the buzz of romance and the hustle and bustle of finding the perfect card or bouquet of flowers, love for Mother Earth can be overlooked.

If you are given roses this year by your Valentine, there is a good chance they will have been grown in Kenya, in one of the massive greenhouses that blot out the former wild shores of Lake Naivasha, or in neighbouring Ethiopia. For loved-up shoppers, habitual hankerings are for roses that are red, long-stemmed and sold by the dozen.