Onion flowers are known as a “specialty” flower on the front island of Ly Son Among the terraced stone banks, the onion fields have a strange appeal. However, not many tourists get to see this flower…
The onion flowers grow high 30 – 40 cm of onion flowers bloom in round white bunches. The onion flowers have a light scent typical of the onion plant.
Among the onions are a series of stairs at the foot of the Dong Lao Farmer’s village reservoir. Bui Van Thanh (65 years old, Dong village, An Hai commune) happily shared that onion flowers bloom in the spring season, and the remaining seasons never bloom until around February – March every year early May.
Onion flowers are known as the “specialty” flower on Ly Son island
Seems to be very knowledgeable about guests’ habits travel to the frontier island, old farmer Bui Van Thanh explains why few people can See the onion fields because the best blooming season is in February, this is the time when the sea weather is bad so tourists have not yet come to the island. In April and early May, only the onion fields hidden on the mountain slopes have flowers. Therefore, few tourists get to admire the blooming onions.
“At this time, there are only a few onion fields in bloom, but the flowers blooming at this time are the most beautiful because all the onion fields in the field are in bloom. flowers all at the same time. Very few tourists know to go to onion fields like this.”
Onion flowers bloom around February to March every year
Like a tour guide for the old island Farmer Bui Van Thanh stopped his work to explain to us about this special flower.
After about 50 days of planting, the onion will begin to bloom. At this time, most onion growers will remove the flowers with the aim of helping the plant focus on growing large onions.
“Onion plants that have fully flowered like this have small bulbs but must be left like this Only onions are qualified to be used as seeds. Therefore, onions that are only used for sale do not bloom all over the field like this,” Mr. Thanh shared.
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