Can the economy blossom like Nairobi trees?

Karura Forest in Kiambu county. [File, Standard]

Rains have made the trees flower, and the leafy suburbs of Nairobi are curtains of beauty.

The concrete jungles are the same, never mind a booming business in exotic plants grown in pots and other containers. Seen exotic bamboo and other plants for sale on the roadsides?

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