Nghe An: Wild mountain trees 'take to the streets' and become luxury trees for Tet
(Baonghean.vn) - Although there are still nearly 2 months left until the Lunar New Year of the Cat, the flower and ornamental plant market in Nghe An has already begun to bustle. This year, many types of wild plants have been shaped into unique bonsai, costing tens of millions of dong...
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| Five-color flower is a wild plant that grows abundantly in the countryside. It is selected, pruned, shaped, and grafted into bonsai to serve the hobby of ornamental plants of customers. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
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| The older the tree, the more lumps and unique shapes it has, the more it is favored by customers and sold for prices ranging from several million to tens of millions of dong. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
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| The colorful flower gardens in all shapes and sizes in Kim Chi ornamental flower village, Nghi An commune (Vinh city) attract visitors to come and buy. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
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| In recent years, the hobby of growing ancient tea trees has also been popular among bonsai enthusiasts in Vinh city. Grasping the taste, gardeners in Nghi Phu and Nghi An communes have gone all the way to Thai Nguyen province to select and bring tea trees back to pot, prune, shape and sell them to the market. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
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The owner of a garden in Nghi An commune (Vinh city) shared that most of the tea trees here are decades old, even hundreds of years old. The branches and trunks are covered with moss, 4 - 6m high. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
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| Depending on each tea tree, age, foliage and trunk diameter, the price varies, ranging from 20 to 50 million VND. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
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Many old apricot trees, worth tens of millions of dong per pot, are now available at gardens in Vinh city. According to feng shui, apricot trees symbolize luck, fortune and prosperity, so they are very popular. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
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| This flower has a distinct characteristic, known as “twice blooming flower”. Initially, the flower is yellow with 5 petals. After these petals fall off, the 5 sepals will fold and embrace the pistil, the pistil will form seeds, pushing the 5 sepals to open up, looking like a red apricot blossom that has just bloomed. Photo: Thanh Phuc |
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| Besides unique flowers, gardeners are also importing many popular and traditional flowers and ornamental plants to serve the Lunar New Year market. Photo: Thanh Phuc |