Photos: Hanoi Flowers in 12 Months

November of graceful Daisy

Hanoi – the capital city of Vietnam is blessed with various ravishing different flowers. When November comes, it is covered with a new face of ox-eye daisy and Crystal gems flower along streets. Every visitor to Hanoi in any time will meet a very familiar sight – vendors carry the flower on their bikes through corners to corners, from big roads to small lanes in sunny days or even rainy days. This is also the time that Hanoi is full of violet and white color of daisy flowers.

December of lustrous Yellow Blumea

December comes with yellow blumea flowers. Thanh Tri Garden Flower offers the best place for teenagers and couples can take glamorous photos to keep their most beautiful moments. A yellow-carpet among the vast field adds to the charm of Hanoi in the eyes of travelers. The flower seasons, especially blumea flower fields with its own natural and simple beauty in the Hanoi outskirts, definitely pamper all of us.

January of pinky Peach Blossoms

January is covered by the peach blossoms, small and faint pink petals remind Vietnamese about the traditional Tet holiday. Upon arrival of spring, it blooms profusely and vigorously. Down to streets and you can see the colorful flowers in “mobile flower shop” – the street vendors carry flower on their bicycle along streets.

Fact: Peach blooms cannot miss in Vietnamese family on Lunar New Year. It is the real image of Tet holiday in North regions for many years!

February of white Barringtonia

Hanoi in February is adorned with a carpet of barringtonia. Thanh Nien Street and Hoang Hoa Tham Street are blanketed in the pure white color. The capital of Vietnam shines in a short time of blooming white color. It is easy to be gone with the wind. Sometimes, it was romantic when white elegant petals slightly fell like gentle rains into your shoulders. Picked it up and gazed at this delicate fragrance while wandering along pavements, you are out of the bustle and hustle of life.

Fact: Walking around West Lake, seeing Hanoians doing exercises and contemplating the beautiful bauhinia in early morning leave you behind the busy daily life.

March of magnificent bauhinia

Not as radiant as phoenix flowers in summer, bauhinia dotted the old Hanoi with the rosy color in Bac Son Street or Hoang Dieu Street. Originally from the North Vietnam, bauhinia is planted in Hanoi for ten years but it is the Hanoi symbol in March. A number of teenagers find Bac Son Street is the ideal place to pose with the simplicity of bauhinia trees. It is more alluring through the lens of photographers.

April of sophisticated Lily

White Lily flower mixes Hanoi with the beginning of summer in April. From every corner, the image of this white flower attracts all ages of Hanoians. Biking through streets, you easily catch the girls holding a bunch of lily flower to take intriguing photos.

Fact: Visit Tay Tuu flower village and you are soaked into the immense lily flower fields as well as witness how farmers plant and grow it every day.

May of incandescent flamboyant and banaba

Hanoi burns in May with the red flamboyant and deep violet banaba in many streets and schools. Considered the flowers of students because when they fainted is the break time of students.

June of elegant Lotus

Lotus shows its own most enchanting beauty and perfume in sunny summer in June. At that time, many teenagers and photographers go to Lotus pond in West Lake to take their best photos. You also see the lotus from the vendors along the streets. Vietnamese purchase it from vendors and arrange it into a vase like a small jar. For them, it is the symbol of purity and simplicity.

Fact:  Lotus is regarded as Vietnamese National Flower.  It is also the symbol on logo of Vietnam Airlines.

July of resplendent Sunflowers

Sunflowers go to the streets and captivate you by its blazing yellow color of sunshine in July. Each corner filled with sunflowers towards the sun, towards the light. Hanoi is not still dreamy in the gentle season of Lotus, Hanoi would change its gentle lotus dress to bright yellow outfit: the sunny sunflowers. 

August and September of passionate Milk Flowers

Milk flower may be the first thing that recalls people of Hanoi in fall. People flock to the city street to see and smell the fragrant tart-sweet flower. It is typical image of Hanoi on the arrival of autumn. Wandering in the streets in evening, you are pervaded with the fragrance of milk flowers. Additionally, it appears in the song and poet as the symbol of Hanoi in autumn. “Hoa sua” is such a famous song!

Fact: Nguyen Du Street is the best place to soak into such a pervasive milk flower.

October of seduced Globe Amaranth

Hanoi welcomes October by the deep violet of bach nhat from vendors. Not as delight as banaba in shine of summer, its gentle purple color associates with a little bit dry in autumn. Nowhere is more magnetic than Nhat Tan garden flower in these days of October.

Tips: 20,000 VND/person to enter the garden flowers and freely pose and take photos. 

It is true that only by looking at the flower bikes along the Hanoi streets, you can know which seasons it is. That’s one of the most special thing about this charming city.