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Kenyans' Deepening Affection for Orchids

Ingeborg Gonella with her AOS award-winning 'Onc Cheiro Kukoo' orchid (left) and the display that won Gold award for best ‘Balcony Garden (right). PHOTO | FILE

By  Margaretta wa Gacheru

Lifestyle Reporter

Nation Media Group

What is it about orchids that could cause the former regional senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Anne Eriksson, to look forward to retirement so she could grow the elegant flowering plants?

And why would orchids inspire a medical specialist like Dr Janak Gohil to forego her lucrative work as an anaesthesiologist for even a day just to arrange her award-winning flower display at Nairobi’s Sarit Centre where the 65th Kenya Orchid Society’s annual showcase of both indigenous and exotic plants was on show?

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