In 2021, her gardening story was interrupted. She broke her leg in a road accident, and while she was recovering, almost all of her plants died.
By
Linet Owoko
Correspondent
Nation Media Group
If Margarita Nyambura could speak to her 12-year-old self, the girl who used to stop by a prison fence each morning to pick orange and yellow flowers, she would tell her to keep going.
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