Designer Sy Hoang
Owning a garden of about 20,000 m2 in Ho Chi Minh City, designer Sy Hoang surprised many people with his meticulously invested living space and Vietnamese culture.
Few people know that this land was originally a salty, heavily alum-contaminated land, with only a small dirt path leading in. With love for nature and the desire to create a gathering place for his family, he spent many years renovating, turning this place into a "green island" in the city.
The garden is surrounded by green vegetables, fish ponds, ancient houses and many works bearing traditional imprints. The highlight is Chan Lac Lake, about 5,000 m2 wide, located in the center of the campus, facing straight to the ancestral temple. On the lake surface, there is also a submerged stage - where many art performances and large-scale cultural seminars have taken place.
My Tam
In contrast to the majesticness of Sy Hoang's garden, singer My Tam's garden in Ho Chi Minh City is sympathetic because of its rustic and ordinary beauty. With an area of thousands of square meters, this is where the female singer returns after long tours, to rest and regenerate energy.
In the garden, My Tam plants many familiar fruit trees such as mangoes, grapefruits, guava, rambutan and seasonal green vegetable beds. She focuses on scientific care, clearly dividing each area, installing automatic irrigation systems so that trees are always green and healthy. The image of My Tam wearing simple clothes, watering trees herself, harvesting ripe fruits makes the audience love her more because of her closeness and sincerity. For the female singer, the garden in Cu Chi is not only a property but also a spiritual shelter amidst the busy pace of life.
My Le
Not ostentatious in scale or value, singer My Le's 10,000 m2 garden impresses with its persistent and organic gardening method. This is a miniature ecosystem, where she grows a variety of fruit trees, vegetables and flowers, from familiar varieties such as bananas, papayas, gourds, pumpkins to rare plants such as woody grapes, golden star apples or foreign pomegranates.
My Le persistently pursues organic farming methods, without using pesticides or chemical fertilizers, instead it is self-incubated fertilizer from leftover vegetables and eggshells. Thanks to that, the garden yields "unspeakable" fruit, large, even and safe trees and fruits. In addition to gardening, the female singer also raises chickens, often inviting friends and relatives to visit and share vegetables and fruits. For My Le, happiness does not lie in the showbiz aura but in very real, peaceful moments in the green of trees and leaves.
