Fences and hedges

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Fences and hedges

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Topic and see below
***** Category: Plant / Humanity

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Explanation

Fences and hedges are made by man to protect their property.

A fence or hedge is made from various materials,
some from shrubs and trees that can be kigo.


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Barbed wire fence

Barbed wire is horribly popular in Kenya, and it is often rusty, a veritable tetanus trap and very dangerous indeed. Particularly when used in school compounds, where it is abominably frequent.

Isabelle Prondzynski


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Cactus fence

TBA


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Kayaba fence
kayaba is the local version of kei apple.
Dovyalis caffra Warb.

Its yellow succulent fruits have a definite seasonality. Kei apple is abundant in Nairobi.

Kayaba is a plant that bears seeds and when they are planted close together the branches twin around themselves covering every space that is in between them hence at our home we use it as a fence since it has some thorns that scared away people who have differend motives especially at night.

sunny afternoon -
a coiled spider web sparkles
on a Kayaba fence

Siboko Yamame Winslause



Mukuru Kayaba is a district of Nairobi.


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The kei apple, Dovyalis caffra Warb. (syn. Aberia caffra Harv. & Sond.) is also known as umkokolo in Africa and this is abbreviated to umkolo in the Philippines. The generic name has been rendered Doryalis by many writers but botanists now agree that this form was not the original spelling.

The kei apple is native to the Kei River area of southwest Africa and abundant in the wild around the eastern Cape, Kaffraria and Natal. It is cultivated in the Transvaal. In 1838, it was introduced into England.

Generally, the plants bloom in spring and the fruits ripen from August to October. The thorns make harvesting difficult. The top may have to be thinned out in order to facilitate fruit-picking.

Morton, J. 1987.
In: Fruits of warm climates. Julia F. Morton, Miami, FL.
source : www.hort.purdue.edu



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Worldwide use

Japan

. kakine 垣根 hedge, fence
kakoi 囲い, saku さく. hei 塀 .
ishigaki　石垣　stone wall, stone fence
ikegaki 生け垣 "living fence", hedge

With haiku by Basho, Buson and Issa.


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HAIKU


wire fence--
white quarry dust on the
rambling passion fruit

Caleb David Mutua
September 2010


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a photographer hides
behind a kayaba fence-
Kirima saga

Andrew Otinga


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Related words

***** WKD : Reference


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