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A white rose.
A white rose.(Foreign Correspondent: Tyler Freeman Smith)

A map showing Kenya.

A man stands in a flower greenhouse.
Peter Szapary owns Wildfire Flowers, a farm close to the banks of Lake Naivasha in Kenya.(Foreign Correspondent: Tyler Freeman Smith)
White rose bunches.
Peter's roses end up on supermarket shelves around the world.(Foreign Correspondent: Tyler Freeman Smith)

A woman with a bunch of roses.
A flower farm worker picks roses in Kenya, east Africa.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)
A rose at Wildfire Flowers in Kenya.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)
A farm worker wrapping roses.
A farm worker wrapping roses.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)
Growing roses can create a large carbon footprint.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)

A street with boys and livestock in front of a market.
Naivasha town in Kenya is in the country's flower growing region.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)

A woman holds medications.
Single mother Esther says her health has suffered from working on the flower farms.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)

A lake with greenhouses on its banks.
The white roofs of flower farm greenhouses on the shores of Lake Naivasha.(Foreign Correspondent: Macdavis Mwangi )

Flowers at a Dutch auction house.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)

Flowers in a large warehouse.
The Royal Flora auction house in the Netherlands is considered the global epicentre of the flower industry.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)
A man at a computer.
Auctioneer Erik Wassenaar setting the price for hundreds of varieties of roses during a live auction at the Royal Flora auction house.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)

Pink roses.
Pink roses at Royal Flora auction house.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)
Roses.
Roses set to be shipped out.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)
Roses being prepared for auction in the Netherlands.
Roses being prepared for auction in the Netherlands.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)
Roses in a bunch.
VIP Roses ready for shipping.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)
Roses.
Roses grown by Marc Sassen.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)
Marc Sassen holding roses.
Marc Sassen only grows during the warmer months to cut down on his farm's carbon footprint.(Foreign Correspondent: Isabella Higgins)

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