End of year ...

As the year is rapidly drawing to an end we are finishing off our weeding activites - cruising around removing remnants we missed ... mainly geraldton carnation weed and veldgrass.

3 November - mainly looking for Geraldton Carnation Weed

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10 November - mainly looking for veldgrass and Geraldton Carnation Weed. Also removed Flinders Ranges Wattle found previous week.

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17 November - Committee Meeting - and cleaning up rubbish along frontage - putting into bin

24 November - veldgrass and Geraldton Carnation Weed removed

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1 December - Continuing with Veldgrass and Geraldton Carnation Weed removed

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8 December - exploring options for front verge of bushland

Revisiting the Watsonia

The Watsonia are getting harder to find - but with a bit of searching Tom and I still found quite a few ...some of them quite large ones ... often hiding under the skirt of a Balga ...

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Geraldton Carnation Weed in Health Department Land

Tom, John and I spent some time in the Health Department Area near Selby Lodge to get rid of some of the Geraldton Carnation Weed ...

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Completing the monitoring

Brian Morgan and Ian Fordyce came along to help complete monitoring our Freesia and Lachenalia quadrats for 2013 ...

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Bushland Monitoring

October - with help from Brian Morgan and Ian Fordyce - we are monitoring the condition of the bushland.

October 6 - Identifying location of quadrats (it has been a few years since we last did it!), and monitoring Watsonias.

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Spring catch-up

After upgrading the operating system on my home computer I discovered I can no-longer download GPS data onto my home computer ... so have had a bit of a hiatus ... have borrowed an old computer for collecting GPS data ... so now trying to get it all online ...

July 28 - mainly weeding Freesias ...

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August 04 - Lachenalia and Geraldton Carnation Weeds begin to appear

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August 11 - Begin to focus on Geraldton Carnation Weeds - with the occassional painted lady (Gladiolus angustus)

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September 1 - Geraldton Carnation Weeds

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September 8 - Geraldton Carnation Weeds

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September 22 - Bush to Beach Walk

September 29 - Geraldton Carnation Weed

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Wildflowers for the bush to beach walk

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fthnkMXjDqo&feature=youtu.be)

Good time for fungi

The regular rain over the past few weeks has brought up a number of fungi in the bushland. The flowers are also coming - the bushland will soon be at its most colourful!

These fungi were at the base of a (live) jarrah tree.

We worked on removing freesias and geraldton carnation weed - mainly along the paths created for the old prisoner of war camp site. Also removed one Fountain Grass in flower.

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Planting day and other activities

In the past month we have had a planting day and begun our winter weeding activities ...

2nd June - looking for Freesia, Lachenalia, and Geraldton Carnation Weeds

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9th June - removing Freesia and Lachenalia

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16th June - Removing Geraldton Carnation Weed and Freesia

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Planting day - 23rd June - forgot to take photos!

30th June - Post Planting - checking for any unplanted pots

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7th July - Mainly looking for Lachenalia

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On the 6th July I joined Roz, Dorothy, and a colleague of Roz in the bushland looking for Fungi.

The next day, Corne found this wattle. What is it? My guess is Acacia podalyriifolia  (commonly known as Silver Wattle).

14th July - Freesia and Geraldton Carnation Weed

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Some friends donated old carpet - for our trials to see if covering BlackFlag can help us control this weed. There are two patches here - the top one has rubberised underfelt beneath the carpet that may reduce water infiltration into the soil and inhibit plants poking through the carpet. We will see what happens!

Planning for 2013 Planting Day (23 June)

Vicky Shannon (City of Nedlands Environmental Conservation Coordinator) is helping us organise a planting day on Sunday 23rd June 9am-11am. Today I have walked around the bushland to check out possible planting sites for the 500 plants that Vicki has organised for us:

• Allocasuarina fraseriana 150 
• Banksia attenuata 10 
• Dianella revoluta 79 
• Eucalyptus marginata 31 
• Jacksonia furcellata 41 
• Jacksonia sericea 200 

I have identified the following locations for planting (with approximate plant numbers indicated):

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Winter weeding has begun

Weather still feels like late summer - warm sunny days, but we have had enough rain to bring the weeds up ... freesia, geraldton carnation weeds ... so we are back at the old familiar weeding activities. First, on 5 May 2013 we finished of our pelargonium weeding from the previous weeks ... this one was quite a big patch.

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On 12 May we began working along the western fenceline looking for freesias and geraldton carnation weeds, and also came across a few Fountain Grass patches as well to remove.

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On May 19th we continued along the western boundary looking for freesia and geraldton carnation weeds.

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Autumn, Sun Moths, Pelargonium ... waiting for the rain to come

Autumn is always a time of waiting for the rain to come, and with it the weeds. We just cruise around the bushland doing odd things, like looking for the Graceful Sun Moth (which only comes out for a few weeks in autumn to breed before burrowing back into the ground), and pulling out patches of pelargonium that have survived the summer.
March 24, Looking for Sun Moths

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April 7, Looking for Sun Moths

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April 14, Removing Natal Grass

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April 21, Removing Pelargonium

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April 28, removing veldgrass and natal grass

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Autumn Activities

We are enjoying the cooler mornings for our bushland activities ... and had some nice rain recently that refreshed the bushland a little ...

Did some weeding along the eastern boundary of the bushland.

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On the day of our committee meeting we did a little bit of weeding before the meeting ... found lots of rubbish along Lemnos St, and an eastern states eucalypt that someone planted that we will need to remove.

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Great to see Erin this morning! We did a bit of weeding, and then went off in search of the Graceful Sun Moth - and found one! Unfortunately, didn't have a camera to record it.

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Catching up!

It seems to have been months since I have updated this site with our activities ... time to catch up!

January 13 activities (we did more during January but I had problems with the GPS) Click here to view live map Click here to download the GPX data for this map. Note, this data is an XML file - change the name to .GPX to upload to your GPS.

Feb 03 activities Click here to view live map Click here to download the GPX data for this map. Note, this data is an XML file - change the name to .GPX to upload to your GPS.

Feb 17 activities Click here to view live map Click here to download the GPX data for this map. Note, this data is an XML file - change the name to .GPX to upload to your GPS.

Feb 24 activities Click here to view live map Click here to download the GPX data for this map. Note, this data is an XML file - change the name to .GPX to upload to your GPS.