Qingming festival holidays offer the perfect opportunity to enjoy the scents of spring brought by flowers. While most tourists are focusing on "treading the greenery", some greedy individuals couldn’t resist taking some of the flowers home.
This is green peony, a rare and expensive specie of peony. There are only six of these peony trees at the Wuhan Donghu peony garden and they have become the most popular flowers there.
However, four green peony blossoms have gone missing since the opening day of this year’s peony festival. The garden is forced to keep two guards next to these precious flowers and is calling for more responsible behaviour by tourists.