Exporters of perishables, such as flower and vegetable producers in Kenya, suffered immediate damage.

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She and her husband installed a vegetable and edible-flower garden, including nasturtiums and violas.

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The months-old eatery, called De Jong, is gaining a lot of buzz for its flower, herb and vegetable-based menu, offering dishes such as cold smoked salmon covered in tulip leaves and homemade pancetta served over local flowers.

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His reconnoitre had led him, through a vegetable patch given up to weeds, into what had been a garden, its single remaining flower bed marked with seed packets that told what its several rows contained.

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