Spring starts a new year with occasional rains, while summer comes bringing blue skies. Beautiful flowers in summer make us love the season more.

Purple – the color of Crape-myrtle flowers, appears at the beginning of the summer. Crape-myrtle flowers are grown in crowded streets
Crape-myrtle flowers on Kim Ma Street, Hanoi
The Crape-myrtle flower is the favorite of young girls. Its purple color represents faithfulness
Flamboyant flowers are in bloom. The sound of balm-crickets and the red color of Flamboyant are in harmony

“Each red flower season comes/Flowers look like rain/Red fragile petals/Like regret about one’s youth/After the song, you kept silent/The silence of red flowers/After the song, you’re the same/You of the olden times/After the song, I’ll also be the same/Me of the olden times”

(From the poem “The time of red flowers” by poet Thanh Tung. The poem was set to music by songwriter Nguyen Dinh Bang)
Golden Shower trees grow on certain Hanoi streets, like Le Trong Tan, Nguyen Dinh Thi, Lac Long Quan, and surrounding West Lake. The tree’s average height is about 10m. Golden Shower flowers grow in racemes and form yellow eye-catching bunches
The Golden Shower flower
Some other flowers like Peacock contribute its own yellow color to the colorful summer of Hanoi