120,000 flower pots used for HCMC’s 2015 Tet Flower Street

120,000 pots of flowers in a variety of species are being installed as the preparation for the 2015 Tet Flower Street on Ham Nghi Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1.

Tet, which is the Vietnamese term for the Lunar New Year, will fall on February 19 this year.

The flowers have been gathered from several places across the country, including Sa Dec city in the southern province of Dong Thap, Da Lat city in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, and some plant companies in HCMC.

The flower street has grown into one of the city’s highlights during Tet – the Southeast Asian country’s largest traditional holiday – and receives millions of tourists, including foreigners, each year.

This year, it will stretch 510 meters from Pho Duc Chinh Street near the landmark Ben Thanh Market to Ho Tung Mau Street.

Chiem Thanh Long, director of Binh Quoi Tourist Village, the main contractor of the 2015 Tet Flower Road, told Tuoi Tre that the installation and decoration of flowers at the venue has been considered carefully because the sun and wind conditions on Ham Nghi Street are different from the conditions on Nguyen Hue Street.

In previous years, the Tet Flower Street was set up on Nguyen Hue Street but this year it is moved to Ham Nghi due to the construction on a subway project.

“We ensure that we will finish the flower street perfectly on time in the morning of February 15 (the 28th of the twelfth lunar month) so that the festival will officially kick off in the evening of that day,” Long confirmed.

Truong Van Dung, staff at the Binh Quoi Tourist Village, who has 12-year experiences on construction the flower street shared he has a feeling that this year’s flower street will be more beautiful than previous years’, adding that the new venue will bring visitors new and different feelings.

The 2015 Flower Street Festival on Ham Nghi Street will run until February 22 (the 4th day of the Lunar New Year).

Accordingly, vehicles travelling on Ham Nghi running from the Quach Thi Trang Roundabout to Ton Duc Thang Street will be halted from 7:00 am on February 6 to 6:00 am on February 23.

Another annual flower festival at Tao Dan Park in District 1also kicked off on February 13. This year, the event showcases more than 4,000 ornamental objects including plants, flowers and fishes. One of the different points of this year’s festival compared with previous festival is an area displaying high-tech agricultural products. The festival will run until February 24 (the sixth day of the Lunar New year).

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