Top 10 Flower Farms in Kenya

Overview of the flower industry in Kenya

• Kenya is one of the top flower producers in the world, exporting to over 60 destinations worldwide. It is also one of the lead exporters of roses to the European Union. The flower industry is Kenya’s third-largest foreign exchange earner.
• The main export markets for flowers from Kenya are the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, and Norway. Most of the exported flowers from Kenya are sold at Dutch auctions, while others are sold directly to supermarkets and florists around the world.
• In Kenya, over 500,000 people, including over 100,000 flower farm employees, depend on the floriculture industry. This industry also impacts over 4 million livelihoods.

Flower Farming Regions in Kenya

• The main areas where flowers are produced in Kenya are around Lake Naivasha to Nakuru, Nairobi, Athi River, Nyandarua, Kericho, Eldoret, Kitale, and the Mount Kenya region, Thika, Juja, and Kiambu. 

Types of flowers grown in Kenya

• Kenya has the perfect climate for growing a wide range of top-quality flowers that have a ready market worldwide.
• The main cut flowers grown and exported in Kenya are roses, carnations, and alstroemeria. Other flowers include hypericum, lilies, gypsophila, arabicum, eryngium, scabiosa, ornithogalum, and craspedia, as well as a variety of summer flowers. Roses are however Kenya’s top flower export.

Here is a list of the top 10 flower farms in Kenya.

10. Wilmar Flowers

• Wilmar Flowers, in conjunction with smallholder farmers, produces and exports assorted varieties of summer flowers. Some of these summer flowers include craspedia, tuberose, saundersiae, thyroids, polianthes, and ornithogalum.
• To contact them, call +254 734 273 133 or visit their Thika Town office at Munene Industries, Lodwar Street, Thika.

9. Batian Flowers Ltd

• Batian Flowers Ltd is a 35-hectare farm located in the Timau region on the slopes of Mount Kenya. It is owned by the Black Tulip Group.
• This farm specializes in alstroemeria, spray alstroemeria (florinca), spray carnations, and spray roses, which are sold all over Europe.
• To get more information on this farm and its products, call +254 20 204 7462.

8. Wildfire Flowers

• Wildfire Flowers, one of the top 10 flower farms in Kenya, is owned and operated by Peter and Sylvia Szapary. It is located on the shores of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley.
• This farm has 18 hectares of roses as well as 23 hectares of hypericum. There are 14 different varieties of roses grown here, including Athena and Commanche, and four varieties of hypericum.
• To get more details on this farm, call +254 722 204 669.

7. Subati Flowers Ltd

• Subati Flowers Ltd grows and exports over 100 varieties of spray and single-head roses. This company exports over 60 million stems every year to 25 different countries around the world.
• This flower company has farms on the slopes of the Great Rift Valley, in Nyahururu and Naivasha.

6. Sian Flowers

• Sian Flowers produces high-quality standard roses, spray roses, and summer flowers at its four farms. The Agriflora Kenya Ltd farm is located in Njoro, Nakuru, the Maasai Flowers Ltd Farm situated along the Kitengela-Namanga Road, and the Equator Flowers Kenya Ltd and Sololo Agriculture Ltd farms in Eldoret.
• To get more details on this leading Kenyan producer of high-quality flowers, call +254 20 2170 540.

5. Primarosa Flowers

• Primarosa Flowers is a producer and exporter of premium quality single heads and sprays (baby roses) in more than 70 varieties. At this flower producer’s Zuri Farm in Ol Joro Orok in Nyahururu County, the roses are of two categories – the big heads and the sprays.
• Call +254 110 922 570 to get more details on this company and to receive its product catalog.

4. Fontana

• Fontana has four farms (Ayana, Alisha, Diya, and Akina) in Nakuru and Nanyuki County where it grows 80 varieties of roses. These roses include garden roses, spray roses, and hybrid roses.
• To get more information on its high-quality flowers and their availability, call +254 790 492 135.

3. Red Lands Roses

• Red Lands Roses in another of the top 10 flower farms in Kenya. It was first established in 1996, and is located along the Ruiru – Kamiti Road in Ruiru, Kiambu County, Kenya.
• This flower farm specializes in growing spray, garden, mini, and T-hybrid roses for export. Call +254 722 509293 to find out more about its products.

2. Kisima Farm

• Kisima Farm grows roses and summer flowers for export at its location in Timau, Meru County, Kenya, from where it exports over 20 million stems annually. It has 20 hectares of greenhouses that house its roses, while the summer flowers (alstroemeria, delphinium, matthiola, and craspedia) are grown outdoors.
• To get more information on its products, call +254 722 509830.

1. Marginpar Kenya

• Marginpar Kenya produces summer flowers that are in high demand at Dutch flower auctions.  Its farms are as follows: Bondet (Nanyuki), Kariki Juja (Thika), Kariki Naivasha (Kinangop Road, Naivasha), KS (Rongai, Nakuru), Kudenga (Molo), MR (Molo), and ST (Sobea, Nakuru) Farms
• Some of the summer flowers grown on these farms include Scabiosa, Craspedia, Eryngium Questar®, Solidago, Bupleurum, Limonium, Gypsophila Xlence®, Helleborus, Astilbe, Ornithogalum and the Astrantia Star®.

These top 10 flower farms in Kenya contribute significantly to Kenya’s economy by creating jobs, earning export revenue, and attracting foreign investment.