VietNamNet Bridge – Le Dinh Hong, of An Duong District in the northern Hai Phong City, is taking care of peach trees in his garden in Dang Cuong Village. There are about three weeks left before Tet (Lunar New Year). The village is one of the country’s best-known peach growers. At present, the village has thousands of old peach trees to meet the demand of people who want to purchase a peach tree with blooming blossoms during Tet, the Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper reported. Traditionally, the Tet holidays are the days of relaxation, family reunion, happiness and joy. Just as many people in the West buy pine trees for the Christmas holiday, Vietnamese often buy many types of flowers and plants to decorate their house in the special period. The three plants that cannot be missing during the Tet holidays are peach blossoms, apricot (ochna itegerrima) blossoms and kumquat. Peach blossoms and kumquat trees are common in the north while southern people prefer apricot blossoms for Tet. Hong said growing peach trees could be risky. “It’s like a gamble”. Taking care of peach trees was not too hard, but ensuring peach trees’ blossoms bloomed at the right time, right at Tet, was hard because it depended much on climate, he said. Climate conditions were the key factor to determine when the peach trees’ blossoms bloom and whether they are beautiful or ugly, he added. According to Hong and other peach tree growers in the village, the climate this year was… [Read full story]
VietNamNet Bridge - Apricot and peach growers have been certain of a bountiful crop this year. The apricot and peach prices are believed to be higher than during Tet 2010; however, it is still too early to say how high the prices will be because everything still depends on the gods. Tet will come in a little more than a month, and many people have begun decorating their homes to celebrate. Of course, an apricot tree or a peach branch would be indispensable. The heavy cold of this winter seems to come earlier than in previous years. Therefore, peach growers…... [read more]
Peach trees are blossoming around Hanoi, but growers are less than happy because the flowers have come too early for Tet and many are facing huge losses. Peach growers struggling to sell blossoms for Tet Even though Tet is only days away, many peach tree growers in Nhat Tan have been unable to make money because a warm spell last month sent them into blossom too early and prices have plummeted. "While peach trees are widely blossoming, there are only a few buyers. We have only sold half our crop," said one grower, named Huu. Early blossoms cause slow sales…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge - The Lunar New Year 2014 or Tet holiday has just ended, but gardeners in Nhat Tan flower village in Hanoi have begun to prepare for the next Tet holiday. That Thon, a rare peach variety of Nhat Tan village. The peach trees that were unsold before Tet bloomed in the garden. The first lunar month is the month of relaxation and festivals but people in Nhat Tan have begun taking care of their peach garden in preparation for the spring next year.Alluvial was taken from the Red River to replace the old soil in the…... [read more]
Since the first days of 2008, there have been a lot of activities in preparation for Lunar New Year festival (Tet) celebrations in the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos. Tet gifts from the mainland have been well packed to be sent to soldiers on the islands. A reporter from Radio the Voice of Vietnam interviewed colonel Nguyen Duc Long, political commissar for Navy Zone D on such activities. Reporter: Could you brief us on the preparations for Tet gifts to soldiers on the SpratlyIslands? Mr Long: This year, the volume of Tet gifts is fewer as soldiers are able to provide…... [read more]
Gone are the days when there were many wild peach trees in Son La province . Many people liked to use their branches to decorate their homes for Tet. This led to people cutting them and selling them to make money. Now, there are very few of these beautiful trees. Those that still stand are being ruined because of people still wanting to strip them of their branches. Such old peach flowers like this are in danger of being cut by peach flower traders. -VNS Photo Nguyen Viet Thanh HA NOI (VNS) – It's hard to find ancient wild peach…... [read more]
