A bushy evergreen perennial to 75cm, with narrow, dark grey-green leaves and erect racemes of rich mauve flowers 2cm in width. Shortlisted for the Chelsea Plant of the Centenary for the decade ...

Flowers, 10-16cm in diameter, open maroon-red fading to a violet-purple with age; each tepal has a darker central bar and the anthers are red-mauve. Flower in late spring-early summer and then again ...

Anne (not her real name) is a single mother and one of thousands of the predominantly female workers in Kenya's flower industry, harvesting and categorising blooms in one of the many greenhouse ...

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