Gardeners grow apricot blossoms for Tet to follow the trend of apricot blossom players
Báo Thanh niên•08/01/2025
Tet apricot gardeners in Binh Dinh are busy preparing to bring to the market apricot trees with beautiful, unique, and strange shapes... to serve players.
In the early days of the twelfth lunar month, apricot gardeners in An Nhon Town (Binh Dinh) - known as the apricot growing capital of the Central region - are busy preparing, plucking leaves, and potting millions of apricot trees to sell to players during the Lunar New Year of At Ty in 2025.
An ancient apricot tree in Trung Dinh village (Nhon An commune, An Nhon town, Binh Dinh), displayed at the garden house.
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Livestream selling Tet apricot blossoms
This year, many gardeners in An Nhon town have switched from growing traditional long-shaped apricot trees to bonsai apricot trees, mini apricot trees with all kinds to serve the needs of players. Due to the increasingly rich and diverse needs of customers, gardeners have to change according to the trend to catch up with the trends and preferences of apricot players.
A person is picking leaves from a bonsai apricot pot.
PHOTO: HAI PHONG
While taking care of Tet apricot trees in the garden, artisan Ngo Manh Tuan (38 years old, in Trung Dinh village, Nhon An commune, An Nhon town) said that his apricot garden has thousands of trees, many types, different shapes such as traditional apricot trees, bonsai, mini and ancient trees. According to Mr. Tuan, growing ornamental apricot trees "seems easy" but is very difficult, to have a beautiful apricot tree, it is necessary to shape, apply pruning and grafting techniques and take care of and monitor regularly. Currently, the demand for apricot trees is very rich and diverse, most customers like compact apricot trees, bonsai style because they are affordable. Some customers with stable economic conditions like to play with large, ancient apricot trees, which are of high value.
Mr. Ngo Manh Tuan livestreams selling apricot blossoms on social networks.
PHOTO: HAI PHONG
"To keep up with customer demand, gardeners have to change from traditional planting styles to new styles. Now customers can buy mai trees anytime, anywhere, at any time, so they don't have to wait until Tet to sell mai trees. As for me, in addition to selling mai trees in the garden, I also sell on social networks like Facebook, Tiktok, YouTube... by livestreaming direct sales. This form of sale can be sold to customers nationwide. On average, my family's annual revenue is about 2 billion VND," Tuan shared.
Revenue of nearly 100 billion VND/year
According to apricot gardeners, this year the weather is not too sunny so the apricot trees are growing quite well, and the flowers are likely to bloom a few days earlier than the Lunar New Year 2025.
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hung is picking mai leaves so that the mai tree will bloom in time for Lunar New Year 2025.
PHOTO: HAI PHONG
While picking mai leaves, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hung (in Trung Dinh village, Nhon An commune) said that currently many gardeners in the area are focusing on picking mai leaves, pruning branches, taking care of and shaping mai trees according to their favorite shape or the trend that customers like. Workers hired to pick mai leaves have an average price of 200,000 VND/person/day. "This year's Tet mai has round buds that are very beautiful, customers also come to the garden to buy a lot, my family's bonsai mai is mainly in small pots so the selling price is also moderate, from 300,000 VND to several million VND. Thanks to mai trees, the lives of people here are warm and prosperous," Mr. Hung said.
This apricot pot was displayed by Mr. Ngo Manh Tuan at the 2nd An Nhon yellow apricot festival in 2025, held from January 9 to 27, 2025.
PHOTO: HAI PHONG
On January 7, speaking with Thanh Nien reporter, Mr. Phan Long Hung, Chairman of Nhon An Commune People's Committee, said that Trung Dinh apricot village was recognized as a craft village in 2012. The local government has invested in infrastructure to develop community tourism , helping tourists and locals travel conveniently.
"Growing apricot trees brings people dozens of times more income than growing other crops. Local authorities encourage gardeners to grow apricot trees with unique shapes and sizes according to customers' needs, limiting mass planting like before," said Mr. Hung.
A garden with many bonsai apricot pots in Nhon An commune
PHOTO: HAI PHONG
According to the People's Committee of An Nhon Town, there are about 1,500 households growing ornamental apricot trees in the area, supplying the market with about 1.6 million apricot pots/year. Revenue from production and trading of Tet apricot trees in An Nhon is from 80 to 100 billion VND/year.
The 2nd An Nhon yellow apricot festival in 2025 will be held from January 9 to 27 (ie December 10 to 28, the year of the Dragon) at the ornamental plant display area of Trung Dinh village (Nhon An commune), with 130 apricot pots with beautiful, unique and strange designs... The An Nhon yellow apricot festival is one of the activities to welcome the new year, celebrate major holidays of the country, of Binh Dinh province and celebrate the event of An Nhon town becoming a city in 2025...
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