Kenyan cut flowers, flower by flower

Why a page per flower

A buyer of carnations does not need the rose page, and the rose page does not tell them that carnations have their own tariff line. Inspection frequency, the false codling moth requirement, the Australian devitalisation dose and the customs subheading are all set per genus. The unit of trade changes too: roses are bought by the stem, gypsophila by the weight of a bunch. Each flower page holds those facts for its genus in one specification table, with a framework and an authority against every row.

Three frameworks, and the rule that keeps them apart

A flower specification is not one kind of truth. It is three:

• Kenyan origin — what is true of Kenyan production, from KEPHIS, from trade observation, or not established at all.
• VBN auction framework — what the Dutch auction's product specifications lay down. A1, A2, B1 are auction quality groups, not Kenyan grades.
• Destination requirement — what an importing country's law requires: an inspection rate, a treatment, a certificate statement.

"Kenyan roses are graded A1" is the sentence these pages exist to prevent. It takes an auction convention and reports it as an origin fact. Every row on every flower page carries its framework, and a row that cannot be evidenced says Not established rather than being quietly dropped.

The range, and where roses sit

Roses are Kenya's product identity, and their specification — the 40 to 80 cm ladder, head sizes, and what "grade" can mean — has its own page in the specifications section. It is not repeated here. The pages in this section cover the flowers a buyer meets next, and the table below is the reason they are separate:

EU rates from Annex I of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2389 as consolidated on 15 June 2026, with the 100% basic rate for any genus not listed; Great Britain from Defra's frequency table dated 15 June 2026; Australian doses from the department's devitalisation guide. Each is read and dated on the flower's own page.

Beyond these, grower catalogues carry a long tail — statice, eryngium, solidago, craspedia, scabiosa, delphinium, limonium and more. What is known of them, and the one thing that changes when you move beyond roses →

What these pages do not carry

No prices, no minimum order quantities, no current availability, no farm names as suppliers, and no market share by flower. Prices and minimums are commercial terms, not properties of the product. Availability is a question for the day of the order. And no public statistic separates Kenyan gypsophila from Kenyan alstroemeria, because both sit in the same customs line — the codes, and why that gap exists →

How to read them

Start with the flower. Its page tells you the unit to specify in, the rows that decide how a destination treats it, and what is not established. From there, how a quotation is built from a box, the destination's page, and the enquiry form, which asks for the flower, the length, the quantity, the frequency and the destination airport — the five things every page here is trying to help you state precisely.