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Tet peach blossom gives reason for cheer

Though Tet (Lunar New Year) is still three weeks away people are making a beeline to gardens to place orders for their favourite kumquat trees.
Tet peach blossom gives reason for cheer ảnh 1Kumquat trees (Illustrative photo: baomoi.com.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) - Though Tet (Lunar New Year) is stillthree weeks away people are making a beeline to gardens to place orders fortheir favourite kumquat trees.

Gardeners in Nhat Tanand Tu Lien wards in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district are taking special care of theirpeach blossom and kumquat trees to get good prices during the Lunar New Year.The areas are bustling as a result.

“Due to this year’sabnormal weather, we have to take very good care to make the flowers blossom intime,” Tuan Viet, owner of a peach blossom garden in Nhat Tan, told the media.

A three-metre peachblossom tree at Nhat Tan would be priced at 25 million VND (over 1,100 USD) to 30million VND if it blossoms in time, while kumquat would cost 500,000 VND for asmall tree and 2.5 million VND for a big one, a farmer in Nhat Tan said.-VNA

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