People planting apricot blossom for Tet festival have troubles because of mass early flowering

Although having nearly 10 years of experience in caring and planting apricot blossom for Tet festival, this is the first year Dong Tam apricot blossom garden- Bien Hoa city- deals to this problem. Persistently hot climates, incident rain out of season, prolonged hoarfrost make full-experience gardeners like Dong Tam also watch for natural hazard. Now over 40 percent here in total of 1.000 apricot blossom’ root supposedly loses revenue in this Tet season. If it is counted 300 thousand per tree for lowest price and 10 million per perennial root for highest price, damage of this gardening reaches to hundreds of million.

Because of leap year and unfavorable weather, keeping watch for remaining apricot blossoms flower right on Tet is not simply, especially plants that customers sent for caring. Because from early in the year, gardeners collected from 200 thousand to 1 million pay for caring and keeping watch for flowering right on Tet. Dealing with irregular weather, both gardeners and sender are confused. Some ones sympathize, but someone doesn’t. Now, in total 5.000 roots at Dong Khoi Apricot Blossom Garden, there are about a half of the locals and neighboring people sent for caring. Ms. Hoang Thi Ha- owner of Dong Khoi Garden expressed “if our customers are not sympathetic, we have to choose the other suitable plant to compensate them. Mr. Nguyen Duy Quyet- Thong Nhat Ward- Bien Hoa City has sent apricot blossom here for caring many years, but this is the first year his apricot plant flowers before Tet. Sympathizing to gardener’s difficulties, he is still happy though maybe he doesn’t have a satisfactory apricot blossom plant on this Tet.

Area of apricot blossom planting in Dong Nai is narrower and narrower not only prompt urbanization but also job depending on luck, success or failure relies much on weather. However, it will be a super profit job, 1 ha provide an income from hundreds of million to billions to people, who has strong passion and long attachment to this traditional plant which brings of spring’s vivid yellow to Southern Sky on case of coming Tet