To serve the decoration needs of the 2024 Lunar New Year, Ben Tre gardeners are busy creating dragon mascot shapes with ornamental flowers, with prices ranging from a few tens of thousands to 2.5 million VND/pot.
Until next time, the Tet mascot is an attractive phrase that attracts many people’s attention. This year, gardeners in the land of ornamental flowers and seedlings in Cho Lach district (Ben Tre) continue to create dragon products – the 2024 mascot.
Gardeners create dragon mascots to welcome Spring and sell for millions per pot (Video: Bao Ky).
A lively dragon mascot made from a sapphire tree is displayed in front of Nam Cong ornamental garden (Cho Lach district, Ben Tre). The dragon is about 5m long, more than 2m high and has a majestic and majestic appearance.
With 20 years of experience in producing Tet flowers, every Tet has its own mascot, Mr. Le Van Tri living in Hung Khanh Trung B commune (Cho Lach district, Ben Tre) often makes mascots with ornamental kumquats to serve the decoration needs for the new year. .
For the Year of the Dragon 2024, Mr. Tri made 50 pots of dragon-shaped ornamental kumquats, priced at 5 million VND/pair. Each dragon pot is more than 1 meter in size. The kumquat used to create the mascot shape was planted many months ago and has produced many fruits.
The artist will then use a soldering iron to shape the dragon’s head, body, back and tail, then select strong, fruitful stalks and use zinc to weave them into the frame. To shape the face, workers use painted plastic balls to make the eyes, springs to make the whiskers, and decals to make the horns and mouth. On average, each ornamental dragon over 1m tall takes about 1-2 days to complete.
Mr. Do Trung Thang lives in Hung Khanh Trung B commune (Cho Lach district, Ben Tre) next to 6 pots of paper flowers shaped like “fish turning into dragons”. The garden owner said that in order to satisfy his hobby of decorating the house with unique ornamental flowers, this is the first time Mr. Thang shaped paper flowers into the shape of a mascot. Price 2 million VND/pot.
The “dragon fish” is about 2 meters tall and is composed of 5 to 6 bougainvillea bushes. Then, Mr. Thang added fins, eyes, and mouth to make it more vivid. The tail is still shaped like a fish, but the head is shaped like a dragon. Mr. Thang shared that the part that takes the most effort to create is the animal’s head, it must be at least 80% similar for the mascot to be successful.
According to the garden owner, this year is a leap year so the bougainvillea blooms early, so it is necessary to treat the water carefully so that the bougainvillea blooms in time for Tet when the mascot is even more brilliant.
“I displayed the pots in the garden and people came to see, ask to buy, and bid,” Mr. Thang said.
Besides creating large dragon mascots, some gardeners also create small dragons suitable for use on the table.
The owner of the above interesting “mini” dragon pots is Mr. Nguyen Lam Duy (from Hung Khanh Trung B commune, Cho Lach district, Ben Tre). Mr. Duy said that this year he crafted 500 pots including the single dragon and dragon phoenix mascots shaped from hydrangeas, pine leaves, tamanu fruits, springs, straws…
According to Mr. Duy, he can make 6 pots a day. Because hydrangea is a bushy plant that is easy to shape, it doesn’t take much effort to shape it. Decorative accessories are also easy to find, so the product price is quite “affordable”, single dragon is 75,000 VND/pot, dragon phoenix is 150,000 VND/pot.
“This year the economy is difficult, people are afraid to shop, so I made small dragon pots, the price is also cheap and will be affordable for consumers. The number of pots I made has already been ordered by customers. Now I am taking more orders. for new customers,” Mr. Duy expressed
($1~24,000 VND)
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