Sunday 21 July 2013

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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Sunday 14 July 2013

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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The marker indicates a patch of lachenalia to remove
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!