Signature flowers and ornamental trees for the traditional Lunar New Year not only make the home more beautiful, but also bring luck, peace, and fortune to the family.
Son La - Moc Chau plateau in the northern province of Son La is considered as the land of flowers. Come here at any time of the year, visitors can also admire the beautiful flowers blooming.
With the Lunar New Year 2023 fast approaching, farmers in flower growing areas of the Central Highlands’ province of Dak Lak are busy harvesting their Tet flowers. Traders are also arriving to buy the flowers for sale in other localities.
To day (wild peach blossoms) are associated with the lives of many generations of H’Mong people in Mu Cang Chai district in Yen bai province. To honour the flower, the first To day Flower Festival will be held in late December, showcasing a range of cultural and artistic activities with the bold cultural identity of local ethnic groups.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam has called on the community to promote the power of sport to drive inclusion; build skills, competencies, confidence and to support mental wellbeing of children and adolescents in Vietnam, on the occasion of World Children’s Day (WCD) (November 20).
Anyone who passes by Doi Can street in the capital of Hanoi on winter days is taken aback by the beautiful pink colours of silk floss flowers. The plant is a showing specimen with some unusual traits that make it hard to mistake it for any other trees.
The “city of thousands of flowers”, Da Lat in the central highlands’ province of Lam Dong, has been named among the world’s ten best destinations to admire flowers by global travellers, according to the online travel service platform Booking.com.
Travelling to the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang in the last months of the year, tourists can easily see the pink and purple colours of buckwheat fields – a typical tourism product of the locality.
Along with famous tourist sites, visitors to the capital Hanoi are always impressed by its different flower seasons. While the lotus is an iconic feature of the city in the summer, hoa sua (white milk flowers) is an autumn highlight.
Ethnic people on the Dong Van Karst Plateau in Ha Giang province have developed apiculture from mint flowers. Honey is now a typical farm produce of the province and has contributed to local poverty reduction efforts.
To commemorate the 77th National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on September 2, the streets of Hanoi have been decorated with national flags, flowers, banners, and signboards.
The Government of Vietnam is making efforts to get the routine immunisation for children back on track, Rana Flowers, UNICEF Representative to Vietnam, said on July 19.
Violence against women and children is never acceptable and has to be made visible and reported in protection of the group, emphasised UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers.
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan laid flowers at the President Ho Chi Minh Monument in ASEAN Garden in Manila on June 30, as part of her working visit to the Philippines.
During June, vivid golden shower flowers can be seen in many places around Hanoi these days. Their colour looks so captivating under the sun of summer, the flowers’ blooming season.
Flowers are like a mirror of the seasons, reflecting the passage of time. Golden shower trees, or Muong Hoang Yen in Vietnamese, are in blossom and decorate Hanoi streets with their brilliant yellow, telling people that summer is finally here.
Flamboyant (also known as royal poinciana or flame of the forest) trees are mostly found in tropics and subtropics. Located in both a temperate and a tropical zone, Vietnam is an ideal land for the trees to grow. Therefore, they are planted widely across Vietnam. The trees are in full bloom in June.
Giant crape-myrtle flowers, known as “Bang lang” in Vietnamese, are now blooming beautifully throughout Thuan Nam district, Ninh Thuan province, bringing a sense of poetic beauty to the coastal land as summer is coming.
West Lake is famed for fragrant lotus flowers that captivate the hearts of all Hanoians. Twenty kilometres from the hustle and bustle of the centre of Vietnam’s capital, however, another lotus lake also attracts a host of visitors coming to take the perfect photo.
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