Sa Đéc Flower Garden — one of flower
centers of South Vietnam — locates in Tan Qui Dong Commune, Sa Đéc
Town. This garden occupies 60 hectares with 600 households – 3,600
laborers specialized in growing flowers and ornamental plants.
With
spring coming, Sa Đéc bonsai village also starts its festival. Cars
from everywhere come in crowds. All type of flowers and bonsai hasten
to go to Hồ Chí Minh City and neighboring provinces to boast their
beauty in Tết festival. Located by the bank of annually windy Tiền
River of fertility and sun, Flower village Sa Đéc is a fatherland of
hundreds “uncanny flowers and strange herbs”. Here tourists can see
scarce and priceless bonsai of hundreds years old. There are simple
trees close to life of laborers like thistle, areca, fig, benjamine
fig, ochna atropurpurea D.C ... but through skillful, industrious,
talent hands of artisan-artists, they became priceless bonsai with
beautiful and uncanny forms. In this village, a village having 4
springs, you can contemplate at any moment a forest of flowers of all
colors and aroma. Especially, here keep about 50 kinds of roses:
velvety rose; lotus violet Grada roses; pink Cleopatre roses; Bridibat
roses of dark brick color; Fortini rose, which are red inside and
yellow outside; Elizabet flesh-colored roses; orange maccaras roses;
Metsai roses of white color …
Ornamental flowers not only give
colors and aroma, but also are used to decorate interior, to make
landscape of parks, offices, cultural constructions, and dwelling
house. Besides, some of them are used for treatment. Sa Đéc Flower
village – one of attractive touring point – indefinitely satisfy
tourists in their visit to Đồng Tháp Province of lotus.
