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Clasping a bouquet of roses, Paul Nyaga smiled shyly. "Yes," he said, "there is someone I want to give flowers to on Valentine's Day, but the flowers won't be from here - I'll get them from the field."
All around him, hundreds of workers in green overcoats were sorting blooms, assembling bouquets and wrapping them into plastic packaging complete with British supermarket logos and price tags, in the giant packing hall of Oserian flower farm in central Kenya.
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