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UK: MP asks shoppers to back British flower industry

Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert has called on shoppers to back British-grown flowers following a visit to a Walberton nursery earlier this month.

Ben Cross invited Mr Herbert to Crosslands Flower Nursery to see how he grows British Alstroemeria flowers, also known as the Lily of the Incas or Peruvian Lily, and highlight the difficulties faced by British flower farmers.

The decline of large scale British flower production is largely blamed on the increase of imported flowers into the UK from Holland, Kenya, Brazil, Ecuador, Columbia and more recently Ethiopia.

The UK imports more than 90 per cent of its flowers, with supermarket sales accounting for at least 70 per cent of those sales.

Click here to read the complete article at www.wscountytimes.co.uk.
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