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Tulip Festival in Istanbul feasts Turks' eyes on colorful flowers

For Valentine’s Day this year, Bangkokians have the option of soaking in the beauty of 50,000 blooms in Queen Sirikit Park in Chatuchak district. The park has been developed as a new lung for the metropolis.

Thailand’s Rose of the North bursts into bloom tomorrow (Tuesday) with predictions that the "Charming Chiang Mai Flower Festival 2022" will ignite a 1.5-billion-baht tourism boom.

The Nhat Tan village is located in Hanoi and is considered one of the largest suppliers of peach flowers in the Vietnamese capital.

The very small flowers can close within seconds of being touched, making them the most sensitive and fast-reacting flowers in the world.

The Big Aui Chuan Chom Garden in Phichit province attracts flower lovers nationwide with over 1,000 decorative plants, including the signature “Phet Aiyada” desert rose that gets offers for half a million baht.

A businesswoman in Chiang Mai has turned the Covid-19 crisis into an opportunity by cashing in on people’s love for brightly coloured foliage. She now imports nearly 20-million-baht worth of Caladium bicolor, or Angel Wings, every month to meet the demand.

The Cute Star Flower (Lasianthus ranongensis Sinbumroong & Napiroon) is a newly discovered plant found at Ngao Waterfall National Park in Ranong’s Muang district and was recently acknowledged by the United States’ PeerJ journal (Plant Biology Section), Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation said in a facebook post on Tuesday.

Bangkok landmarks are being adorned with floral displays, banners and flags in preparation for the birthdays of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn on July 28 and Her Majesty Queen Sirikit the Queen Mother on August 12. The latter date is also National Mother’s Day.

His Majesty the King on Saturday sent a vase of flowers to a five-year-old Finnish boy who was mauled by a pack of dogs at Ao Nang in Krabi.

This year, the annual Nai Lert Flower & Garden Art Fair takes place at the Park of Nai Lert in the heart of Bangkok from February 21-24, 2019, from 09.00 – 20.00 hrs.

Khon Kaen University (KKU) has asked for additional donations amounting to 200,000 rose-patterned funeral flowers, as the prepared 800,000 flowers are not enough to support the one million people expected to turn up to pay their respects to the late much-revered northeastern monk, Luang Phor Koon Parisuttho.