With just over a month left until the Lunar New Year of the Horse 2026, the festive atmosphere has already arrived early in flower-growing areas of Da Lat (Lam Dong province): Thai Phien, Van Thanh flower village, Ha Dong, etc., with the bustling work of gardeners entering the most important flower season of the year.
In Thai Phien flower village (Da Lat), many lily farmers say that the current crop of flowers is ready for sale. Lunar New Year 2026 is ready. If the weather is favorable, the flowers will bloom right on Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year).
Lush green lily gardens, stretching themselves in the warm year, await the Lunar New Year to serve the people.
Farmers carefully tend to the flowers, pruning away any damaged leaves and branches so that they will be healthier and more beautiful during the Lunar New Year season.
Gerbera daisies are one of the most popular flowers displayed during Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) because of their lovely colors and shape.

Flower growers enter the gardens while the dew is still thick on the plastic roofs, checking each row of chrysanthemums, each pot of orchids, each trellis of lilies and roses. This is the "final push" stage, where even a small mistake in irrigation, light, or temperature can affect the quality of the flowers for Tet (Lunar New Year).
The Tet flower season is considered the "decisive season" of the entire year. For many flower growers, the income from the few weeks leading up to Tet can account for a large portion of their annual profits.
According to flower growers, traders have already placed orders for this year's Tet flower season.

"We look forward to these few weeks all year. If the flowers bloom too early or too late, it's like we've ruined Tet," said a garden owner in Thai Phien.
This year, many gardeners report quite erratic weather. Strong sunshine during the day, followed by deep cold nights and thick fog, makes flowers susceptible to fungal diseases, petal rot, or stunted growth. To cope, many households have had to increase costs for covering with netting, heating greenhouses, and spraying biological pesticides, leading to significantly higher production costs compared to other seasons.
Mr. Tran Dinh De (from Thai Phien flower village) said that this year his family has high expectations for the Tet flower crop because many other localities were severely flooded, preventing them from planting Tet flowers in time as in previous years.

The young shoots reaching towards the sun carry with them the hopes of the flower farmers of Da Lat.
According to locals, the main job of flower growers now is pruning leaves and buds to ensure even flowering and large buds. Everything is done carefully by hand.
Mr. Tran Hung (from Thai Phien flower village) said that in Da Lat, the Tet flower season is not only a season of colors but also a season of labor, of intertwined worries and hopes. While everyone eagerly celebrates Tet with flowers, flower growers celebrate Tet by watching their gardens gradually empty – the flowers have been sold, their hard work has paid off, and a new cycle begins.

Dalat flowers not only serve the local market but also travel throughout Central Vietnam, the Southeast region, and even to the North. Each truck leaving the garden carries not only flowers, but also the hard work, hopes, and excitement of the growers.
Mr. Tran Dinh De shared that growing flowers for Tet (Lunar New Year) is when farmers experience the most emotions. The Tet flower season in Da Lat is not just a production season, but a very special socio-economic heartbeat of the mountain town. A quiet, unassuming heartbeat, yet it keeps the "flower capital" vibrant every spring.
























