UTEE ESTATE LIMITED
Utee Estate Ltd, a 32 Ha farm, situated at Limuru at an altitude of 2100 m is owned by Black Tulip Group. We grow over 8 different varieties of flowers in 29 ha. Our farm is the largest grower of chrysanthemum and only grower of Lilies in Kenya. We have an excellent team of more than 450 talented & motivated employees who share a passion for achieving the best quality flowers. We are continuously experimenting on new varieties as per market requirement and trends. The farm has a total annual production of about 2.0 million stems of lilies, 1.2 million stems of chrysanthemums and expected production of 1.0 million stems of white hydrangea.
What We Are Growing
As one of the largest producers and exporters of Chrysanthemums, we grow more than 20 varieties in two locations in 13.3 ha. The spray chrysanthemums and Disbuds chrysanthemums are available in white, pink, purple, green, yellow, and orange colours. Pina Colada is an exceptional white spray chrysanthemum with mild green centre with multiple blooms per stems. We have added a new variety Aviator in our selection. We also have magnificent Magnum white disbud chrysanthemum, Rosana pink and versatile Rosana Orange. The Anastasia, White Lilac and Green a spiky spider chrysanthemum has its own uniqueness and charm. We grow 6 varieties of Santinisin our farm.
Utee grows 6 varieties of Asiatic Lilies and 6 varieties of the Oriental Lilies in 2.5 Ha. Each cut lily stem has 3 to 4 beautiful elegant bloom. The lilies have excellent product quality and outstanding vase life. Oriental LiliySignum, Zambesi, and Monteneu are part of our white beauties’ selection. We have wonderful oriental pink selection of Tiber, Table Dance and Tarrango.
Hydrangeas are one of the most popular flowers. At Utee we grow White Hydrangea with big, bushy head around the year.
Utee grows two variety of Gypsophila – Cosmic and Excellence. We also grow Delphinium Belladona the variety which yields a super long and beautiful bloom flower stem. Utee has Lepidium and Anita Eryngium too in its selection. We are in the process of starting the production of Aster soon for the floriculture market.
The farm has a certification from the following:
- KFC Silver
- Fairtrade
- Sedex