Kunming's publicity videos always say that flowers are everywhere in the Spring City, but tourists from other places always complain after visiting Yunnan that they didn't see any place with blooming flowers.

In fact, the real place where flowers are produced is Chenggong Dounan Village, located in the southeast of Kunming City.

Friends from out of town can take Kunming Metro Line 2 and get off at Dounan Station in the south direction. Then scan for a free bicycle and ride for ten minutes to the Dounan Flower Market.

My daughter likes flowers, so she always arranges flowers at home during the four seasons. The focus is on Kunming, the birthplace of flowers, because it is located at an altitude of 1,894 meters. It has red soil rich in ferrous oxide and magnesium, long sunshine hours containing ultraviolet rays, and average temperatures all year round.

Keep it between 12---28 degrees.

All the conditions allow flowers grown in Chenggong to have bright colors, large flowers, a long flowering period, large yields and excellent quality.

Therefore, in the early 1990s, some local farmers broke the habit of growing vegetables and grain and began to try growing flowers.

In the early years, the main varieties were roses and gypsophila, and later lilies were introduced. Later, through the 1999 World Horticultural Exposition, people across the country and the world became aware of the flowers and spice plants produced in Yunnan.

As a result, large-scale flower enterprises have injected large amounts of capital, resulting in a richer variety of flowers, and new flower varieties developed by Yunnan itself. Therefore, the fresh-cut flower transaction volume of a small Dounan flower wholesale market reaches 900 million yuan a year, allowing people from all over the world to

Colleagues from the Taiwan Flower Industry Association who came here to visit were full of praise.

As ordinary citizens, we usually buy a bunch of 20 ordinary roses at the vegetable market for a retail price of 15 to 20 yuan.

In spring, you can buy 20 roses at the cheapest price of about 10 yuan.

Foreign tourists who come to Kunming will also go to the flower market to buy flowers (there are 415 flower retail markets in Kunming).

Kunming locals don’t go to Dounan Flower Market to buy flowers for three reasons.

l. Dounan is too far away. Before the subway opened, it took about an hour to drive from the city to Dounan.

2. The quantity of flowers purchased by individual customers is small, and the flower sellers have the obligation to protect the wholesalers' flower prices, so the purchased flower prices are similar to the retail prices in urban areas.

3. The wholesale trading hours of flowers in Dounan Flower Market are from 20:00 in the evening to 04:30 in the morning (mainly considering the freshness of flowers).

During the day, there are sporadic vendors buying second-hand flowers and selling succulents in Jicui. There are few flowers and not many people.

But my home is only ten minutes away from Dounan by car, and I found that the fresh flowers I bought at a retail market that were cut on the same day bloomed beautifully and decorated the house beautifully for ten days, and my mood became much more beautiful.

The important thing is that my daughter likes flowers, so I took her to Dounan Flower Market in the evening when I had free time. At 20:00, I drove to the parking lot and there were so many cars that I couldn't find a parking space. It took me 15 minutes to find a parking space.

Usually, the peripheral road from the parking lot to the market is filled with various small three-wheeled motorcycles and agricultural vehicles. After passing through the sea of ??cars, vendors on the periphery of the market have spontaneously formed a flower and grass circle outside the market, which sells various branches, from ferns to

Branches of plants, branches and leaves of eucalyptus, and various dry branches that I can’t name, are all used for flower decoration. It also surprised me that these things can be sold for money. My daughter was very happy to see them and asked me about various branches.

name, and finally, being at my wits end, I asked her to quickly walk into the flower market.

During the day, there are only retail vendors in Dounan Flower Market. At night, the market is crowded with flowers, piles of flower walls, carts full of floats, and bustling florists bargaining. My daughter and I shuttled among the crowds of flowers. The flowers were so beautiful and beautiful.

There are many and the price is not cheap.

High-grade grandiflora, colorful roses, calla lilies, tulips, perfume lilies, and strelitzia reginae.

Only then did we realize Dounan’s leading position in the flower industry.

Because those flowers are so tall, it would be a waste of money for ordinary people to buy them if they don’t know how to match the flowers.

My daughter and I feasted our eyes and picked out three bunches of flowers to decorate our home from the massive selection. Two of them were made out of respect for my daughter’s own preferences. We bought a bouquet of white and pink butt flowers for 15 yuan and a bouquet of 10 roses.

Spend 5 yuan.

***Total RMB 20.

The harvest was full, and the mother and daughter left home happily. They deeply felt how happy they were to live in Kunming. Just imagine that 50 flowers for 20 yuan would make many flower lovers in other places envious and jealous.

But everyone is welcome to go to the flower market.