Not many people have noticed a special thing in this winter in Hue: For the first time ever, in the rainfall updates of the Provincial Commanding Committee for Disaster Prevention and Search & Rescue appears a very strange place, which is Quan Tuong Dai (the Imperial Observatory) in Hue Imperial City. The three words “Quan Tuong Dai” being read out on a rainy day sounds melancholy as if old friends saw each other once again after such a long time.

For flower growers in Phu Mau, Phu Thuong, Thuy Van (Hue City), there are always sprouts raised on the loose soil beds, so that their gardens and fields are green, not only for Tet holiday. Therefore, it is not difficult to see colorful flower gardens shimmering in the wind, whether spring, summer, autumn or winter.

On the days of late autumn and early winter, taking advantage of the sunny weather, a team of rangers and forestry experts carried many things into the remote forest of Sao La Nature Reserve (A Luoi District)… Not to investigate deforestation, not to set camera traps or to rescue animals, this time they embarked on a journey to seek native forest tree varieties from the natural forest in order to perform the mission of planting forest tree varieties and conserving rare genetic resources.

The adverse winter weather coupled with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic signals an unfavorable Tet (Lunar New Year) flower crop for farmers from nursery to the output market.