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!