Only with familiar flowers, leaves, and fruits, has Phan Van Dong, a talented guy in Vy Da Ward, Hue City, created the painstaking eye-catching dragon and phoenix wedding gates.

Inherently being called a regal flower associated with the image of the Nguyen Dynasty in Hue, the annual blooming season of Firmiana simplex (also known as Chinese parasol) flowers is in late March and April, creating picturesque images in the space of Hue Imperial Citadel.

In the lakes around Hue Imperial Citadel and all over the periphery of Hue City, white lotus flowers have begun to bloom, bringing the pure and brilliant beauty.

Inside the Forbidden City, Thai Binh Pavilion was once used by the king for reading books and reciting poems above the quiet surface of Ngoc Dich Lake. Visitors can leisurely sit on a boat gently surfing on the lake and enjoy the pure taste of lotus tea while admiring the palaces, fortresses, and the beauty of the royal Parasol flowers.

Towards the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam – Japan diplomatic relations (September 21, 1973 – September 21, 2023), on the morning of March 30, the Vietnam – Japan Friendship Association in Thua Thien Hue collaborated with Thua Thien Hue College of Education organized an exchanging program called “IKEBANA art of flower arrangement”.

On the morning of March 12, the Alliance of Arts and Literature Association of Vietnam in collaboration with the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists in Thua Thien Hue and Thua Thien Hue Photography Association to hold a ceremony of offering flowers and incense to commemorate the celebrity Dang Huy Tru, the ancestor of Vietnam’s photography at the ancestral house of worship of the Dang Family (Thanh Luong village, Huong Xuan ward, Huong Tra town).

Finally, December - the last month of a lunar year, is coming. Tet holiday is so near. Amidst the wet rains, the beautiful colors of the flowers and fruits for worship seem to make the winter days less cold and warmer in the busy last days of the year.

To bring radiant colors of autumn into your home, you do not need to pay too much and be fussy, as it just requires a little subtlety, small changes in decorative accessories, or the addition of green plants, in-season flowers and fruits.

Though not as bright and passionate as lotus flowers in the summer, lotus flowers in the autumn seem to be showing a gentle and romantic look.

In the early autumn days, some purple flamboyant trees bloom on the streets and parks, giving passers-by a sense of pleasure. While purple flamboyants in Da Lat thrive and flower after the Lunar New Year days; Hue purple flamboyants, around July-August or September, depending on each tree.