When the spring wind is about to come and dispel the cold of winter, it is also the time when more than 30 households growing peach blossoms in Phu Thuong commune (Vo Nhai) are busy and bustling in their flower gardens.
Many people who come here for the first time are surprised that in this remote place, in addition to the ancient peach trees rooted in the rocky mountains, there are also peach trees with bright flowers, with straight and curved shapes... so beautiful that it makes the heart flutter. Even the people here were surprised to see the peach bushes growing on the rocky mountains with such a shimmering beauty...
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| People in Mo Ga hamlet (Phu Thuong commune, Vo Nhai) take care of the peach blossom garden. |
God-given opportunity
More than 10 years ago, many households in Phu Thuong bought peach trees to play with during the Lunar New Year. After spring, they planted these flowers in their gardens. Like that, season after season, the peach trees grew well, giving beautiful flowers every spring.
Realizing that peach blossoms are very suitable for the land at the foot of the rocky mountain, about 3 or 4 years ago, many households in Phu Thuong boldly invested in growing flowers for sale. We know that growing peach blossoms is also very elaborate, but from the initial opportunities, going through the Tet flower seasons, living with the flower trees, the people here have accumulated more experience and love and attached to peach blossoms more.
Mr. Luong Van Luc in Mo Ga hamlet: My family has been growing peach blossoms for sale for 3 years now. From the initial difficulties, we now fully understand the characteristics of this flower; grafting techniques; how to care for it so that it blooms in time for Tet...
Like previous flower seasons, this year, Mr. Luc's family planted more than 100 peach trees. According to him, in the first season of planting flowers, he stripped the leaves 2 months before Tet. However, whether the peach blossoms bloom on time for Tet or not depends a lot on the weather. Therefore, in the next season, he has gained experience, watching the weather to strip the flowers.
This year, because the weather is warmer than usual, he stripped the leaves a month and a half before Tet (in cold years, he stripped the leaves two months or more before Tet). He diligently cultivated the trees, so after only about two weeks of stripping the leaves, his family's peach blossom garden had tiny flower buds. He said: When the flower buds have popped out of the tree trunk, I stop watering the roots to prevent the flowers from blooming too early. About two or three weeks before Tet, I continue to take care of and water the trees every day so that the flower buds grow quickly and bloom in time for Tet...
From a natural gift, Phu Thuong peach growers now know how to cherish and care for peach gardens growing on rocky mountains, bringing a unique beauty to the land and sky of the highlands.
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| Peach blossoms in Phu Thuong (Vo Nhai) are more colorful than in other peach blossom growing areas of the province. |
Peach blossoms are bright and full of flowers
The famous peach blossom villages that I have visited such as Nhat Tan - Hanoi and Cam Gia (Thai Nguyen City) are all located along the river. Perhaps the alluvial soil has brought nutrients to the peach trees, giving them the source of life to bloom and beautify life. However, what surprised me the most was that despite being located at the foot of a gray rocky mountain discolored by time, the peach trees can still produce such beautiful flowers.
Mr. Hoang Van Giang in Mo Ga hamlet said: The biggest difference between peach blossoms here and those in other regions is that the trees have many flowers; the flowers are big, the petals are thick and the color is bright.
To confirm Mr. Giang’s words, we visited the peach blossom gardens in Mo Ga together. In the pale afternoon sunlight at the end of the year, each peach branch began to bloom, eye-catching. Seeing with our own eyes and touching with our hands each thick peach blossom, we could not deny the words of Mr. Giang - who has been involved in the peach growing profession for 4 years now.
To have beautiful peach trees like this, the flower growers here were very creative when grafting embryos (bich dao or dao phai rootstock) with Nhat Tan peach flowers. This combination has produced peach branches with many flowers like Nhat Tan peaches but the flowers are bigger than all other peach growing areas in the country.
According to the peach blossom growers in Phu Thuong, it is the soil and climate that create the unique peach color of the peach blossoms in the mountainous region. Whether customers from the lowlands or the highlands, they all nod and praise and have never returned “empty-handed” when coming here to buy peach blossoms to play during Tet.
Originating from the hobby of playing during Tet, now, growing Bich Dao has become a popular profession in Phu Thuong, most concentrated in Mo Ga hamlet. On average, each household grows about 100 Bich Dao trees each year. The households that grow the most are the families of Mr. Hoang Ngoc Tu, Mr. Hoang Van Giang, Mr. La Van Thin... in Mo Ga hamlet (every year, they grow from 150 to more than 200 flowers/household).
After only 3 or 4 years, Phu Thuong peach blossoms have become famous, and many people in and outside the province come to buy them when Tet comes. Many flower growers in Nhat Tan even bring seedlings here, cooperate with some peach blossom growers in Mo Ga hamlet to graft trees and place orders right from the beginning of the year. Growing peach blossoms has brought a decent income to the people in the mountain hamlet.
Mr. Luong Van Luc said: Last year, my family planted more than 100 peach trees. With the selling price from 400 to 800 thousand VND/tree, after deducting expenses, my wife and I also earned a considerable amount of money.
About a month before the Lunar New Year 2025, people from all over have flocked here to see the flowers, choose trees and make deposits. Peach blossom growers in this mountainous region are therefore very excited.
So, along with the hills of oranges, tangerines and the hills of green custard apples, the people of Phu Thuong have a new job - growing peaches, opening up many prospects in the future. Therefore, the new rural commune of Phu Thuong will develop more and more, and the people will have a more prosperous life.
Source: https://baothainguyen.vn/kinh-te/202501/bich-dao-vuon-minh-ben-nui-da-1c918c4/
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