"Huynh Thi Thu Hang, director of Phong Lan Viet Company, 24-year-old...
dream of having... garden for years. own two: one in [the southern province of] Binh Duong and the other in Ha Noi... Vietnamese tropical orchids dominate both gardens... Hang began realising her dream of creating an orchid garden of her own when her family moved to HCM City... She accumulated... collection of... tropical orchids... she began asking friends and family for support in securing a bigger space. Hang eventually rented a 7,000-sqm plot in Thuan An District, Binh Duong Province in 2004. Now, the over VND6 billion orchid garden has nearly 3,000 giant Ngoc Diem (Rhynchostylis-Rhyn)... in addition to hundreds of other orchid species. ... Viet Nam's orchid-growing industry is still in its infancy. Breeding technology and training remains limited so many orchid growers go to Thailand... "... I decided to attend training courses and visit several orchid gardens in Thailand and HCM City," she said. ... She experimented with different kinds of orchids and means of cultivation, and amassed a... library of orchid books, magazines and documents. ... "The Ngoc Diem-fox tail orchid... I implanted 10 or 50 of them in each star fruit root, and now I have almost 3,000 giant plants in the garden." ... "Even though my plants go for VND3 to 5 million, I still don't sell them since it's hard for me to part with them. I worry that the Ngoc Diem plants might die if they're not properly taken care of," she said. ... Her current business model is to rent the rooted orchids out and sell pots of flowers and decorative orchid baskets. In addition to the two orchid gardens, the Phong Lan Viet Company also has two showroom... in Binh Duong and... in HCM City. It is also working with gardens in Long An and Lam Dong Provinces to meet customer demand. "I also plan on cooperating with some friends to start a new orchid garden and raise butterflies in Lam Dong Province to create a Flower-Butterfly eco-tourist park there," she said. "My new dream is for the Vietnamese orchid industry to invest more in technology to guarantee supply of standard orchids for both domestic and overseas markets." " URL : http://english.vietnamnet.vn/features/2008/09/803262/ *************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
