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.

Wet and dry!

One day it is hot and very summer-like, the next it is more like winter. The Geraldton Carnation Weed love it. We have been continuing to remove the new seedlings.

21 October 2012

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4 November 2012

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11 November 2012

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More campers

Must be the time of year ... someone decides that Shenton Bushland is the ideal place to camp, light camp fires, throw rubbish around ...

Also came across some kind of Callitris (or Cypress) and a Geraldton Wax that will need to be removed.

Removed Geraldton Carnation Weed - lots more still to remove!

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In search of sun orchids

This is the time of year when the scented sun orchids are flowering.

According to a 2010 Friends of Kings Park publication "For People and Plants" article (Sun Orchids, Successful and Immoral), the Sun Orchid family are not fussy about whether they are pollinated by their own species or not - with the result that it can be difficult to identify one species of sun orchid from another.

This year we have found an abundant display of Sun Orchids within the bushland. We think they are Thelymytra macrophylla, but who knows? See photos below.

We also saw some Cow Kick trigger plants (Stylidium schoenoides)

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Spring time is here

The bushland is looking beautiful with lots of orchids and wildflowers out. Well worth a visit! We have been mostly working on Geraldton Carnation Weed and some of the bulbous weeds (especially watsonia and ixia) that we are keen to keep under control. The regular spring showers we are having are prompting lots of Geraldton Carnation Weed seedlings to keep coming up ...

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Continuing on with Geraldton Carnation Weed

After working on the Ixia we have now moved onto the Geraldton Carnation Weeds.

Not sure if our Ixia strategy is working - I don't think we are really controlling them - may need to explore other options.

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Sunday, 2nd September

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Sunday 9th September