Was able to do a solid 3hrs on the Saturday which felt quite productive. Great day for bush regeneration with a cloudy day keeping it quite cool and previous rains making the soil easy to work with. We have had a lot of rain so everything is growing well at the moment. Including the … Continue reading Working Bee – 06.02.2022
Some wins, some losses, but in all, a productive working bee.
Working bees back in a few weeks but restrictions remain…
A water spider hanging out…
THE OVERWHELMING REASON: They contain 15-18 biocidal toxins, most of which are moderately powerful. This tree in its most toxic types (‘chemotypes’) easily rank as the most toxic plant in Australian history, having up to an order of magnitude more toxic biocidal compounds than the average level of toxicity in most other exotic/Native toxic plant species!
I have often been left with large piles of dead lantana after landcare working bees. Current recommendations is to leave those piles on site to breakdown in time. However, Dick’s creek is (well, it was…) a small reserve with a big lantana infestation. Those piles take up a lot of space that I would prefer … Continue reading Lantana debris experiment
Mostly a site inspection rather than a working bee today. In particular, I had another look at the west bank. It has a lot of good stuff there but privet is still an issue.
A quick summary of work done on the day. Namely, removing lantana and freeing up the sandpaper fig saplings.
Once again, just pushing back on lantana. I came across a large sandpaper fig tree that I had previously freed up from lantana.
Comparing a Poison peach tree (Trema Tomentosa) to some Lantana (Lantana camara)
