Bach Thuan Garden Village

Bach Thuan Garden Village is a traditional horticultural village in Bach Thuan Commune, Vu Thu District, Hung Yen Province (formerly Thai Binh Province), located on alluvial land along the Red River about 10 km from Thai Binh city. Established over a century ago, it is notable for extensive ornamental plant, bonsai, and flower cultivation, with thousands of households growing diverse species and preserving a long-standing craft village tradition.

Visitors can expect a riverside village landscape dominated by extensive gardens, nurseries and greenhouses growing ornamental plants, bonsai, flowers and fruit trees. Narrow village lanes pass family-run gardens and plant shops where growers tend and display potted plants and sculpted trees. The setting is rural and agricultural, along the Red River alluvial plain, with traditional houses interspersed among cultivated plots. Visitors can walk through gardens, observe horticultural techniques, photograph seasonal blooms and purchase plants directly from growers.

Bach Thuan developed as a garden village over a century ago on fertile alluvial soil of the Red River. Generations of households have cultivated ornamental plants, bonsai and flowers, evolving from subsistence gardening into a specialized craft village economy recognized as a traditional horticultural village of the former Thai Binh Province.

The village is recognized as a traditional craft village representing the horticultural culture of the Red River Delta. Its ornamental plant and bonsai cultivation reflects local agricultural knowledge, aesthetic traditions and community livelihood passed down through generations, and it is a notable cultural and eco-tourism destination in the region.