Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Locals Landcaring

In the last few weeks we have planted 150 Allocasuarina-Forest Oak, Casuarina-She-oak and Westringia-Coastal Rosemary (on the Gurranba foreshore) and Wattles (at Burnage) as well as Lomandra-Mat Rush and Dianella-Blue Flax Lily into perfect starting conditions of rain and continuing warmth. These replace and hopefully discourage weeds removed which fortunately now aren’t enjoying the conditions.

We have removed the flowers from a vivid outbreak of our latest exotic weed Golden Rod from North America. We are gaining a reputation for the unusual range of invasive weeds that appear on our peninsular.
 

We have also removed a large quantity of what I think of as “European midden” material because of the depth where it occurs – mainly glass, plastic and metal. It shows up as holes are prepared for planting.
 

Fifty more plants will go in the ground before preparation starts for National Tree Day planting at Carey Bay Wetlands on Sunday August 1st , which should complete the 6 year planting programme to replace the Blackberry, Lantana, Wild Rose, Camphor Laurel and Broadleaf Privet area near the Scout Hall.  Despite some grass and weed understory the plantings are doing very well and will slowly take over from the weeds.
 

Landcaring occurs every Thursday (and other days as well) somewhere around Coal Point. Every month extra support is garnered from the Landcare Resource Office, thanks to their volunteers that rove around the city.
The days with additional hands are

  • August 5th - Laycock St South (hopefully Kilibinbin some day)
  • September 2nd - Stansfield Ridge
  • October 15th - Yarul/ Ambrose St
  • December 9th - Gurranba
Feel free to contact me, for a chat about what happens at the local Landcare sessions, we’re a very sociable crew ph 4959 1507.-Robyn Gill Landcare Coordinator
 

Contact the Landcare Office on 4921 0392 if you would like to attend these events.
  • Sun 4 July Friends of Belmont Wetlands Field Day 9am-12pm-Join us for this informative field day and visit the various ecosystems in the Belmont State Park
  • Sat 17 July LM Landcare Team Leader Training 1pm-4pm-Why not update your Team Leader skills or encourage your team members to acquire theirs?

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