Meet this week and next week, early am??
Would anyone like to join me in an early morning work session for Saturday 14 November at 8.30 am?? I have been out today from 7 am to 10 a.m and then home retired as the temp rose towards 30C! However, there were 30 w/weeds and about 300 Verbs chopped in that time and watered our trees in the bench area! All trees alive, growing, except roos have eaten some top leaves..answer is to put branches over the trees to stop that! The Swainsona rectas have been flowering with the branch protection that we put in position during October. I could also do a work session on Sunday 15 Nov at 8.30 am and during the next week at the same time. We could have the work mornings at Mannheim towards the local park area, the dam near Waldock, and the C'houn street.
Let me know if anyone wants to join in, what day(s) you would like to work and where to start, then I can get the info together and then we can meet! The park is now drying out quickly, and I think the am meets are also slightly damp, with less pollen around for a couple of hours.
Take care Anne
A picture for you (one of the S. rectas!)
A flower and weed chop walk: The flowers have been outstanding, and the weeds are not too bad, but growing well. We can walk towards the first dam (about an eighth full!), chopping weeds enroute, then go towards ACTEW line and go back towards Sulwood! Our hard work covering many Swainsona rectas with branches has really saved them from the roos, and about 50-100 appeared to have flowered, with seed capsules. Covering all the Brachychitons with dead branches have also helped keep roos away or actually stopped them eating the top leaves.There have been some good walks on Taylor and the Molonglo area; the Wed walkers on Taylor last week were great and identified some new plants, and up dated our list. If you want a new list of our botanical riches, I will e-mail the new list! Its quite remarkable.
Anyway, see you
Saturday 31 October
2 pm
C'houn street park entry (off Sulwood)
Cheers Anne
Meet on Saturday!
Many thanks for some hard work on dragging logs, dead branches etc to protect the Swansonia rectas..we were delighted to find over 50 plants, very fragile but obviously will be flowering shortly; we tried to block some of the paths on and over the plants as the roos live in that area. By blocking the short cuts, the roos have slightly longer paths around the area..we may be lucky! After the tea we went up the hill, past the dam which is almost dry again, and weeding enroute; a wedge tailed eagle passed over head. I will be in contact for our flower walks, over the next weeks; the flowers are quite spectacular.
Cheers Anne