In Kunming flowers are sold by weight, and spring never takes a day off.
In Kunming, nobody leaves the flower market empty-handed.
In the early hours at Dounan Flower Market, growers drive in with trucks; roses, lilies and sunflowers pile into hills. This is Asia's largest flower market, and millions of stems leave every day for cities across China.
Flowers in Kunming are startlingly cheap: a bunch of roses for a few yuan, an armful of sunflowers for a dozen. Visitors take photos hugging bouquets, couriers squat on the ground packing boxes of spring to post nationwide.
Kunming homes have flowers all year. In the vegetable market, the woman selling greens also sells a few bunches, and shoppers take one home on the side. Kunming people say, our days are days with the scent of flowers.
