At the entrance of the reserve, near where the creek flows under the road, is a stand of ginger lily. Ginger lily is not welcome at Dick’s creek but I have never had a suitable replacement so it has been left alone. There was also some palm grass mixed in with it but over time the palm grass has come to dominate that location. Palm grass is becoming more and more of a problem throughout the reserve so this stand was a good place to start the process of removing it all.
I took advantage of the fact there nothing endemic at the location. I chopped at it to get to the stumps:
Then I had to use a mattock to get the stumps out. There were quite large and numerous.
It looks a lot better with just the ginger lily. Of course, it would be better again if it was native ginger. It will have to stay there until there is a replacement though as it is a location that is at a high risk of erosion.