Tourists visit Dounan Flower Market in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan province, on March 30, 2025.[Photo by Qi Yingchen/For chinadaily.com.cn] Dounan Flower Market located in Kunming ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A few years ago I was on an assignment in India. I had a day off, so I went to the Mullick Ghat flower market in Kolkata.

A war of the roses is breaking out in Portland, along with a war of the daffodils, tulips, irises and really just about any flower imaginable. That’s right, Battle of the Blooms is back.