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| Flower growers hope for another favorable Tet season |
Ensuring flowers bloom on time for Tet
Taking advantage of the sunny days, Truong Quang Truong Hai in La Y residential group, My Thuong Ward, is busy caring for his flower nursery covering nearly 4,000 m², with a wide variety of flowers. Many workers hired by Hai are applying fertilizer, watering, pruning branches, and carrying out other tasks to produce beautiful potted flowers for customers.
Hai shared that the flowers in the nursery began to be planted in June (solar calendar) but was completely devastated during the recent severe floods; with nearly 300 million VND in investment effectively lost. After the floods, his family made great efforts to restore production by replanting three adjacent gardens with 2.000 pots of chrysanthemums, dahlias, asters, marigolds, globe amaranth, and others. The cost of seedlings, fertilizers, materials, and labor to revive the nursery amounted to nearly 400 million VND.
Pointing to plots where flower buds are forming, Hai explained that each pair of large tray of chrysanthemums is priced at 3.5 - 4 million VND, rotating pedestal pairs at 1.5 - 2.5 million VND, large decorative pots at 450,000 - 500,000 VND per pair, and smaller to medium pots range from 150,000 - 350,000 VND per pair. He hopes that favorable weather and healthy growth will bring a bumper season.
For the Year of the Horse 2026 Tet flower season, Le Thanh Nhan, also in La Y residential group, has planted more than 700 pots of various chrysanthemum varieties. Like Hai, Nhan’s flower-growing area was completely damaged by the recent floods, forcing him to take out loans to reinvest and restore production. His family is currently hiring additional labor to care for the plants and apply supplementary fertilizers so that the flowers bloom at the right time for Tet. According to Nhan, besides weather conditions, technical practices play a decisive role in the effectiveness of the flower crop.
Plenty of support
According to Tran Manh Phuong, Chairman of the Farmers’ Association of My Thuong Ward, after the floods at the end of 2025, the Ward People’s Committee promptly supported residents in overcoming losses and expanded production-linkage models tied to market outlets. This has helped form a specialized flower-growing area with more than 110 households, each cultivating an average of 3 - 5 sào (1 sào # 497 m2), creating significant additional income for local people. At the same time, the local government has supported farmers in converting inefficient rice-growing land to flower cultivation with higher income potential, mainly in the residential groups of An Ha, Chiet Bi, Ngoc Anh, La Y, Tay Tri Nhon, and others. In addition to access to credit, farmers receive support in seedlings, materials, and updated technical guidance to reduce costs, lower production prices, increase productivity and quality, and enhance the economic value of flower nurseries.
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| The flower nursery of Truong Quang Truong Hai with a wide range of varieties |
According to our observations, the atmosphere at flower gardens these days has become more urgent and livelier. At nurseries in the residential groups of Tien Non, Vong Tri, Thanh Vinh, Mau Tai, and others, everyone is busy with different tasks but shares the same hope: that the nurseries thrive, flowers bloom beautifully, and market demand during Tet is well met.
Vice Chairman of Duong No Ward People’s Committee Nguyen Van Trai said that the locality has a total flower production area of over 40 hectares with nearly 200 households engaged in cultivation. The recent floods caused severe damage to flower growers. After recovery, garden owners have invested more heavily in labor, materials, fertilizers, and heating-light systems to ensure flowers bloom on time for the coming Lunar New Year.
During the recent floods, flower growers across the entire city suffered heavy losses in facilities and production, with more than 124.000 potted plants damaged, estimated at nearly 8.7 billion VND in losses. After the floods subsided, functional agencies coordinated with localities to urgently help residents restore flower nurseries for the Lunar New Year season. According to Mr. Nguyen Xuan Truong, Head of the Sub-Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection under the Department of Agriculture and Environment, the unit has actively coordinated with localities, organizations, and businesses to support flower-producing areas with seedlings and fertilizers; at the same time, it has organized linkage activities and guided members in sharing production and business experience, market price information, and effective production solutions, reaching consensus on investment in production, supporting seed supply and capital sources, and especially strengthening production linkages to ensure a balanced supply–demand for the year-end market.