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Hanoi’s Flower Villages Gear Up for Tet Festivities

Hanoi's flower villages are a bustling hive of activity as they prepare for Tet, Vietnam's most beloved and important traditional festival. It is a time of celebration and these flower villages are bringing colour and life to the festivities.

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20 December, 2024

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Just over a month before Tet (the Lunar New Year), horticulturists in Hanoi’s renowned gardening villages, such as Me Linh, Tay Tuu, and Tu Lien, are working tirelessly to ensure that a variety of flowers, including peach blossoms, lilies, mums, dahlias, violets, and roses, bloom in time for the festivities.

The breathtaking sight of Nhat Tan peach blossoms in full bloom attracts visitors from far and wide, especially during the festive Tet season. Despite the significant damage caused by Typhoon Yagi, gardeners remain hopeful that their remaining peach trees will flourish with careful tending. Nguyen Trung Viet from Nhat Tan Ward, Tay Ho District, shares that his family is nurturing young peach trees to replace the lost ones and carefully managing their growth while timing the defoliation for perfect blooms.

While the prices of peach trees are expected to remain stable, the blossoms may not be as impressive this year. In the Phu Thuong Ward of Tay Ho District, Pham Dinh Huy reveals that his family’s bonsai peach garden suffered a 50% loss due to the typhoon. However, he assures that there will be no shortage of supply as the terraced planting areas in Nhat Tan have mitigated the impact, allowing for a varied harvest.

In Tu Lien Kumquat Village, farmers dedicate their efforts to cultivating kumquat trees with the same dedication as peach trees. With the Lunar New Year approaching, they are in the final stages of preparing ripe kumquats, paying extra attention to the bonsai kumquat trees planted in pots. Vu Van Dung, a kumquat garden owner in Tu Lien Ward, has already received visitors interested in placing orders for the upcoming Tet celebrations.

Meanwhile, in Me Linh District, locals tirelessly tend to roses, lilies, mums, and garden petunias to ensure a vibrant display for Tet. Nguyen Thi Nu from Me Linh Commune shares that mums, being short-day plants, are in high demand after Typhoon Yagi, and her family is carefully managing their growth with artificial lighting. Pham Duc Tai, owner of Tai Ly Flower Garden in the same commune, showcases an impressive collection of bonsai rose trees and foreign roses of various shapes and colors, with plans to exhibit the most beautiful ones at the Me Linh Flower Festival, the largest of its kind in northern Vietnam.

Nguyen Thi Thuy, owner of Melinh F Farm in Dai Thinh Commune, is also prepared to meet customer demands, having planted 80,000 moth orchids of diverse varieties and colors.

According to economists, Hanoi’s flower and ornamental plant industry can thrive with effective policies and the utilization of research institutes to select key products for long-term development. Nguyen Xuan Dai, Director of the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, affirms that the entire floodplain, with its favorable climate and soil, will be dedicated to this endeavor. Additionally, unproductive rice fields in several districts and Son Tay Town will be transformed into flower and ornamental gardens. Hanoi also continues to support existing horticultural villages in introducing new varieties to meet market demands and explore export opportunities.