The 5, 000 rose bushes flower through most of the year.

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Just last week, I visited farms in the hills above Lake Naivasha in Kenya that are receiving payments from flower producers in the valley through a program that WWF and CARE initiated in 2008.

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Escorted by a master gardener, guests can stroll through flower and plant fields in the nearby village of Gourdon.

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At Le Domaine de Manon, outside of the Grasse city limits, tours of flower fields are given during the harvest, which is generally May for roses and August through mid-October for jasmine.

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