Yellow Rose Day: One Flower, Two Sets of Meanings (Mexico and Latin America)
On 21 September people queue outside flower shops across several Latin American countries for yellow roses: the day comes from a song in the Argentine series Floricienta, and it is bound up with spring beginning in the southern hemisphere. In Chinese floriography, though, the yellow rose is often described as "faded love". One flower, two systems of meaning — this article is about how flower meanings get made.