Nhan Dan- A Spring Flower Festival, the largest of its kind, opened at Tao Dan Park in Ho Chi Minh City on February 8.

Under the theme ‘Vietnam’s Flowers’, the festival brings together more than 800 artisans at home and abroad, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and China.

The festival displays more than 8,000 assorted flowers, bonsai, antique ornamental plants, rock-garden, ornamental fishes and cactus.

The festival also includes many other cultural activities such as comedy, opera and music performance, lion and dragon dances, and calligraphy.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Spring Flower Festival is also held in the area of Con Rua Lake (Tortoise Lake).

The festival will last until February 2.