Strange images at a long-standing peach growing village in Hanoi
Báo Dân trí•23/01/2025
(Dan Tri) - Instead of peach trees blooming brilliantly like previous years, Phu Thuong peach village (Tay Ho) is quite sad this year. Peach gardens have not yet recovered, only short-term flower beds are blooming.
Phu Thuong peach village (Tay Ho district, Hanoi ) is located next to the Red River, along with Nhat Tan peach village, known as a long-standing peach growing area in Hanoi. Peach trees are not only a source of livelihood but also a source of pride for the people here. However, due to the impact of Typhoon Yagi in September 2024, the rising water level of the Red River damaged most of the peach growing area in Phu Thuong peach village.
Normally, around the Lunar New Year, peach trees bloom bright red, but this year the land has become desolate and barren. The scene of bare land in the days before Tet in Phu Thuong peach village makes the people here feel heartbroken when the damage left by storm Yagi is too heavy.
This peach garden used to be a favorite destination for photographers every year near Lunar New Year because of the hundreds of peach trees in full bloom, but now there are only a few peach pots that were moved by the garden owner from elsewhere. The pots lie abandoned in a corner because Phu Thuong peach crop failed this year. Efforts to revive Phu Thuong peach trees but they are not old enough and do not meet the standards to supply the market for Tet At Ty 2025. Some garden owners accept losing all their peaches this year to plant completely new ones. Some other garden owners, in addition to planting new peach gardens, have alternated planting short-term flowers such as chrysanthemums, violets... to improve their income after Typhoon Yagi.
A garden owner said that the recent Typhoon Yagi flooded her peach garden, killing all of her peach trees. Since September, after Typhoon Yagi passed, the water receded and the soil dried up again, and her family started planting more short-term flowers to improve their income. "The flood caused all the peach trees in my garden to die, so now we are replanting them all, along with planting short-term flowers. The dry weather in the past few days has caused chrysanthemums to bloom early, so I hope to keep them in time to sell them next Tet," said the woman. In addition to flowers, short-term vegetables such as cabbage, kohlrabi, lettuce... are chosen by people to grow among newly planted peach trees. A few peach trees in Phu Thuong peach village survived Typhoon Yagi in September and began to bloom to welcome the New Year of the Snake 2025. Ms. Thom's peach garden is located next to a residential area. Although it was flooded, the land was higher so some peach trees were still "revived" in time to be brought to the market for Tet this year.
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