Orchid Gardeners in Ha Noi (2) |
Gardener in Ha Tay(1) |
| We visited some gardener in Ha Tay. He climbs the mountains in the north area and collect orchids. He sell them in Ha Noi and to Ho Chi Minh city. Vietonamee love flowers very much. Of course, orchid is one of flowers. But it may be expensive a little bit for them. |
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| Almost of all orchids in his garden are Den. Many kinds of Den. are in Viet Nam. Some of them are specific variety in Viet Nam , I hard. |
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| When we visited him, A mountains of Paph. esqurolei are collected from the mountains that he brought today. Although he can not export, why he brought them so many ? He said they are the order from Ho Chi Minh City. The damage of plants were so much. I guess, he asked the mountain people to collect and have kept by them so long. |
A gardener in Ha Tay(2) |
| The gardener in town in Ha Tay has a orchid garden in his home. It is not so wide. It may be about 15 m2. But a lot of orchids in his garden. Mainly they are Den. And some Cym. In these days, peoples in Ha Noi like Cym. because they like the fragrance. He also go to the mountains and collect orchids by himself, I hard. |
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| In this garden also, A lot of Den we saw. About Cym. they like Cym. of mottled leaf . They sell the plants by 10 or 20 times of the regular price. |
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| Under the bench, he grow Paph. gratrixianum. The size of leaf is bigger than usual, I thought. | Paph. emaersonii was found by him in Dec. '97, in Napa. When I found the leaf, I surprised and said ' It's Paph. emersonii ' in a loud voice. But he does not know about it. |
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