The Truth Behind Your Valentine's Day Flowers

By Ruth Sherlock,

Greg Dixon

Published February 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM EST

A worker picks roses at a flower farm in Chia, Cundinamarca department, Colombia, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025

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Ruth Sherlock

Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United States Editor for the Daily Telegraph, covering the 2016 US election. Before moving to the US in the spring of 2015, she was the Telegraph's Middle East correspondent.

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