babythug:
Had some carpet grass planted in my garden today. I expanded the size too. The old plants I moved to another hedge and will share pictures later.

Fingers crossed on how the grass turns out. I'd be grateful for any tips. For now we water it every two days!

CC- onegai

I will advice you watered the grass on daily basis either early in the morning before sun rises or later in the evening when the sun is no longer visible. Water can never be too much for grass.

Gloriouspa:


I will advice you watered the grass on daily basis either early in the morning before sun rises or later in the evening when the sun is no longer visible. Water can never be too much for grass.

Thanks will do so!

babythug:
Had some carpet grass planted in my garden today. I expanded the size too. The old plants I moved to another hedge and will share pictures later.

Fingers crossed on how the grass turns out. I'd be grateful for any tips. For now we water it every two days!

CC- onegai

I have great memories of carpet grass! I also recall it needed a lot of watering and I hope you don't have snakes in the area sha (they love sleeping under carpet grass).

Well done o! Your place is really shaping up, happy for you.

Hello flower lovers
Bump!

State of my carpet grass!

It's mostly turned green now but isn't filling up as quickly as I hoped it would....

No retreat no surrender!

Landscaping aka gardening isn't for the faint hearted.

The bush there is called west indies flowers or something like that. Im trying to grow it into a hedge . My gardener who is now AWOL said something about tying it so it grows horizontally into the said hedge and then we can begin trimming. Does any one here have any ideas about how that works?
Trust the rains are being kind to our gardens?
Xoxo

babythug:
State of my carpet grass!

It's mostly turned green now but isn't filling up as quickly as I hoped it would....

No retreat no surrender!

Landscaping aka gardening isn't for the faint hearted.

The bush there is called west indies flowers or something like that. Im trying to grow it into a hedge . My gardener who is now AWOL said something about tying it so it grows horizontally into the said hedge and then we can begin trimming. Does any one here have any ideas about how that works?
Trust the rains are being kind to our gardens?
Xoxo

To have a proper hedge, I recommend you plant more of the plant side by side. With a distance of 2 meters-ish. You can even start with the trimming now. (I don’t know how to explain how you should trim on words) however it shouldn’t be casual.


However if you need a garden scissors, we can supply. For gardeners/ farmers

Hello flower lovers. This thread has given me so much joy and it awoke the love for flowers my mum planted in my heart as a kid

Due to an impending relocation and the fact I'm the only flower person in my home, I'll be giving out all my plants for free. If you stay around the Ajah axis in Lagos and you'll like to have them, feel free to pm me and we'll arrange a pick up.

I'll post some pics. That's my first plant.
She deserves to be posted first

My fern plants. 2 different types

The belle of the ball. Lady Anthurium in pink

Such a pretty thing. I got 1 or 2 more but I'll stop here...

stonecoldcafe:
Hello flower lovers. This thread has given me so much joy and it awoke the love for flowers my mum planted in my heart as a kid

Due to an impending relocation and the fact I'm the only flower person in my home, I'll be giving out all my plants for free. If you stay around the Ajah axis in Lagos and you'll like to have them, feel free to pm me and we'll arrange a pick up.

I'll post some pics. That's my first plant.
She deserves to be posted first

Awwww I wish I were in that axis. I’m almost at another end of Lagos!

Have you got that acaria plant though? *winks*

babythug:



Awwww I wish I were in that axis. I’m almost at another end of Lagos!

Have you got that acaria plant though? *winks*

I'm afraid I dont have it

oriaburefarms:


To have a proper hedge, I recommend you plant more of the plant side by side. With a distance of 2 meters-ish. You can even start with the trimming now. (I don’t know how to explain how you should trim on words) however it shouldn’t be casual.


However if you need a garden scissors, we can supply. For gardeners/ farmers

Thanks for the tips. I will see about planting more of the plants side-by-side. how much do the scissors cost please?

babythug:


Thanks for the tips. I will see about planting more of the plants side-by-side. how much do the scissors cost please?

2500 naira

Babythug, Oriaburefarms and everyone.

This is happening this weekend. I know it's short notice but do you wanna attend?

Onegai:
, and everyone.

This is happening this weekend. I know it's short notice but do you wanna attend?

Hiya
Heard about it during the week unfortunately I’m unable to attend this time round.

Enjoy yourself if you’re gonna be there!

Onegai:
Babythug, Oriaburefarms and everyone.

This is happening this weekend. I know it's short notice but do you wanna attend?

Next time please let the publicity come in time and also as a thread.

happybrother:

Next time please let the publicity come in time and also as a thread.

Sorry, just heard about it myself. Quickly came to share here.

pls can anybody tell me where I can get cactus

Tuan:
pls can anybody tell me where I can get cactus

where are you located?

Olohunjedalo:
where are you located?

bayelsa

cococandy:
There's one incident I'll always remember and my siblings still laugh at me until today whenever I talk about flowers.

Once when we were younger, we were taking a walk and I saw a bush of flowers that I couldn't just resist. I went close to the shrub and proceeded to pick some only to discover that I'd stepped on someone's poo.
I wonder who'd chose to poo there of all places.
Some mighty stinky poo. Mehn. I stank all the way home before I could wash it off my sandals. (And their laughter didn't make things any better.)
Even after bathing I still felt like I was smelling.

It's funny now.
But that day, it wasn't funny to me at all.

hahahaha

Onegai:
let's start by identifying some popular flowers and plants we see daily, feel free to join in.

IXORA COCCINEA

Also known as Jungle Geranium or Flame of the Woods. We all know this one (I'm sure several of us pulled out the stall from the flower to suck the juice at the bottom as kids. It's a beautiful shrub plant that comes in flower colours like red, yellow, orange, pink and white. A lot of gardeners use it as a hedge plant. It likes Sun and can be potted as well. It looks lovely in a table centrepiece. A lot of the different parts of the plant is used in Ayuverdic lifestyles in India and Asian subcontinent. Try it in a floral arrangement for your home today, add water to a vase and cut diagonally down the stem, very colourful.

we suck this one tire for secondary school.

Onegai:
Royal or Flamboyant Poinciana

If you grew up in Benin city or Ife, you should know this tree! It's name is the Dexonia Regia or Flame Tree (I was erroneously told it was "flame of the forest" as a child, that's not true because that tree is another specie native to colder climes). Stunning for its deep red flowers, it also had these seed pods that would fall on the ground and we would call them "Devil beans" and say they were scratchy to the skin
It's very much a tropical tree and in fact, certain Christians of India believe it was growing nearby where Christ was crucified and that his blood shed on the tree and gave it the gorgeous red colours.

I remember this from secondary school.

Onegai:
Hibiscus

Alright, one of my favourites! We all know this flower, but did you know that scholars say that this flower is most likely called the "Rose of Sharon" in the Bible? Because roses don't grow around the hot Arab area but these are in profusion everywhere.

They come in every colour under the sun. You can plant them easily from cuttings and they like Sun and plenty of water. In fact, the ones we have in Delta state are ginormous compared to the ones growing here in Lagos. I took cuttings from a pink one in festac and planted it outside the family home and it really grew. Then my mum had it cut down because they were "disturbing her lemongrass plant". Thanks mum

They don't do well as a bouquet mix because they need water, so plop a few in a vase with water for a centrepiece. But they won't last longer than a day. Random colours like blue and black are usually modified plants and you may not see them here in Nigeria.

I have only seen purple

Is this thread in hibernation mode ?

Olohunjedalo:
Is this thread in hibernation mode ?

Life probably just happened to many contributors on this thread.

Nonetheless please feel free to share pictures of your plants, ideas or tips you’d get responses and so on !

Thanks for stopping by

babythug:



Life probably just happened to many contributors on this thread.

Nonetheless please feel free to share pictures of your plants, ideas or tips you’d get responses and so on !

Thanks for stopping by

Here are my babies .
Those are snake plants. There’s one aloe Vera there too.
I tried to regenerate the snake plants by cutting and planting so that they can occupy all that space . But it’s rotting . I guess I’ll have to wait for new plants to shoot out around the old ones and then cut and replant those small ones

I want to make something like this and put it indoor . But I don’t want to remove any of those snake plants up there .
I have a ton of empty mayonnaise glass jars already . Lol

Olohunjedalo:

Here are my babies .
Those are snake plants. There’s one aloe Vera there too.
I tried to regenerate the snake plants by cutting and planting so that they can occupy all that space . But it’s rotting . I guess I’ll have to wait for new plants to shoot out around the old ones and then cut and replant those small ones

I was going to upload pictures of my own snake plants that I regenerated but alas my dogs have uprooted them to make a spot where they can literally chill during the day! It’s near my royal palm trees!

Don’t even know what to say to the buggers but I will replant them as soon as I get a chance!

The royal palm I planted has grown so tall it makes me so excited anytime I pass by it


N.B- the decaying snake plants are likely to still bloom that also happened to mine Initially


In other news see as grass don grow oh!

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