Freesias to spray

There are lots of freesia to spray along the western boundary. John and I worked on removing the smaller patches likely to be missed by spraying.

Also came across the usual patch of Ixia - not sure how to remove this in the long-term - other than just persistence. The bulbs have lots of tiny bulbules - so care is needed when removing the main bulb from the ground.

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Lots of Freesia

John and I worked mainly on Freesia this morning, also removing the occasional Lachenalia and Geraldton Carnation weed along the western boundary fence where we were working.

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Orchids coming up ...

I am looking forward to seeing all the orchids emerge this spring - greenhoods and blue fairy orchids are everywhere already!

I mainly worked on freesia, geraldton carnation weed, and lupins along the western section of the bushland.

There were lots of small honey eaters in the trees around me - a delightful time to be in the bushland.

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Mapping areas to spray

While working in the bushland we notice that some areas of freesia or lachenalia infestation are just too large to hand weed - and the weeding would cause a lot of disturbance (and make the weed problem worse), so I am just marking those for spraying - especially where they are not too intermingled with native species that may be affected by the spraying.

I have been working along the western boundary in the lachenalia and freesia infested areas. There are lots of small patches that are easily dealt with, and a few large bits that I am leaving.

Lots of Greenhood orchids are coming up - so it looks like it could be quite a good orchid season this year.

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Fungii

Fungii are flourishing after a week of rain!
Not sure what these two are, so any suggestions welcome.

Fungus 1 - could it be Golden Tuart Cortinarius?

Fungus 2 - could it be Smooth parasol?

When not looking for fungi I focussed on freesia and lachenalia (both also enjoyed the rain).

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Great rain!

Setting out on Sunday morning I wondered if we were going to get soaked - but the rain cleared and we had a good couple of hours pulling out Freesias, Lachenalias, and Geraldton Carnation Weeds that are sprouting like mad.

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Black flag - what should we do?

I feel like we are a bit stuck with the black flag infestations - it feels like we have an opportunity to do something about them while they are still small and not infesting good bushland areas - but what? Nothing kills them. Maybe we should just cover the ground with carpet or something for a few years.
We also went to have a look at the proposed site for the re-location of the Radiology Clinic from QEII Medical Centre - to enable Colin Barnett to shoehorn two more hospitals into the QEII site and flog off their existing sites to get some revenue - typical short-term thinking from Barnett ...

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The bushland is responding well to rain - lots of flowers on the way - hovea, greenhood orchids, acacia , daviesia ... it is all happening!

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