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DHA flower festival: 36 homes to compete for best decorated lawn

By Hina Farooq

LAHORE: As many as 36 houses have been registered for the annual flower festival scheduled at Sheeba Park in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on 25 March.

The annual flower festival has been initiated by the DHA residents who have well-maintained lawns inside and outside their homes. The festival is a forerunner of the arrival of spring.

The judges visited various houses on March 20, and registered them for the competition. The judges observed the quality of the plants, their various breeds, decoration, installation of fountains, statues and other decorative motifs in the lawns.

In some houses, people had developed aquariums that had been fixed on walls, one year prior to the competition.

Muhammad Hamid, an F-Block resident and a greenery lover, won first prize in the competition last year. He has applied for this year’s competition. He said that he had bought flowers from Australia and Casa Blanka for this year’s competition. The flowers, which he had exhibited in his lawn, are Renaincolus, Patunia, Benzee, Lilies, Marry Gold, Gezenia, and Australian Bulbs. He said that he had many Cactus breeds and also bought a Bonsai from Japan.

He told Daily Times on Thursday that he had inherited plantation and collection of flowers from his father.

Sonia Zafar, a W block resident, said that she would also participate in the festival, since she had been preparing her lawn for the competition for the last year. She was the runner-up in last year’s competition.

She said that she had made special enclosures for roses, which included all types of breeds. Some of them were not available in Pakistan, she added. Wooden, customised stools and parrots in their cages were also kept in her garden.

Tajammul Hussain, a DHA official, said that that was the second time the DHA would organise the event. Five schools would also participate in the festival, he added. He said that there would be 12 prizes, including cash awards and shields.

The judges would be Lt Col Sheharyar Saeed, Lt Col (r) Javed Iqbal, Lt Col (r) Ashafq Amjad, Ahmed Jawed Iqbal and Ghulam Shabbir.

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