In Hà Nội, sưa flowers are most abundant on streets like Phan Đình Phùng, Hoàng Hoa Thám, Phan Chu Trinh and Thanh Niên. Not bright or overwhelmingly fragrant, the sưa flowers offer a gentle and serene feeling to the city''s...
Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City, the largest public hospital in the southern region, has decorated its campus with colourful flowers, and ornamental plants with cultural motifs of Tết (Lunar New Year) to bring the holiday spirit to patients and hospital staff.
Nguyen Minh Phuong, 50, has been creating designs of animals assigned to
different years in the zodiac for Nguyen Hue Flower Street, HCM City''s
main attraction during Tet since 2007.
Over 1 million people visited the Nguyen Hue Flower
Street over the seven days that it opened for the Tet (Lunar New Year)
holiday, organisers announced at the closing ceremony of the annual
event on Thursday night.
The city''s annual Flower Street on Nguyen Hue opened
to visitors last night, with spectacular displays of fresh flowers and
ornamental trees to welcome the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday that begins
this weekend.
