The grocery stores and high-street florists will very soon be oozing with rich, velvet roses, bursting from enormous bouquets and tied in luxurious ribbons.
As beautiful and romantic as these floral designs are, they come at an environmental cost. See, roses are not naturally in season in February, so everything we see and potentially buy has been grown on commercial farms, often in Ecuador and Kenya, and flown thousands of miles to reach the US.
