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February 1st week

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Return to Hewitts Main targets tomorrow at Hewitts: both sides of the cycleway in the forested area need a clean-up. Morning Glory, Bidens, Fleabane, Kikuyu , Nightshades Manifest Destiny has a Belladonna lily , returning Noogura Burr , Cassia,   Fleabane,  et al.  There's also some cutting up of downed branches for a sawyer or two. some rogue Formosa Lilies (elsewhere) await a keen digger. Windy & cool with big seas & a 1.96m high tide due 9.30ish 2025 Back To Flanagans We will return to our new project a week early for tomorrow's session. Depending on numbers we may have up to 8 separate activities going, including: rubbish collection, especially around beach side of Bay1 cut & poison Asparagus Fern in our already cleared area. Pile non-regrowth fronds. roll up more  Morning Glory  runners & bag cut up fallen timber....maybe a "nest" or two beginning careful pull down & bag dead  Morning Glory  from Boobiallas , withou...
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January 4th week

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Whip Out A Weed/Nourish A Native  Tomorrow:  some watering at  Manifest Destiny a broken branch across the old track into  Manifest Destiny  needs a sawyer's attention Lilies, Fleabane , Purpletop et al are emerging both sides of the Stony Rd still more  Japanese Honeysuckle , Fleabane , Cassia by  Woodlands Ck Japanese Honeysuckle    We stay out of WARC Zone 2025 The Day After There's still some weed work at Woodlands Ck to be done & I expect we could plant up to half the Lomandra there. Its likely to be warm & humid so the other planting site/s will be shaded, maybe behind the Blady Grass & some in  Manifest Destiny . Aquarians are called to carry some water for these 2 sites....its your month after all. 2024 Giant Black Rabbit Dig out & bag Montbretia which is flowering in multiple locations.  Up around the Woodlands Ck bend a native vine is overgrowing many of our plantings so an intervention is needed there ...
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January 3rd week

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2026 Back to the creek  It is back to Hewitts where the following delights await: Walk the WARC.....an old style Emu Parade through the WARC forest area removing Moth Vine, Morning Glory ,  Asparagus ,  Nightshade , Social Fund items More thinning of weeds & Persicaria towards the creek edge at Manifest Destiny & Madeira removal under the Coral Tree . Creation of "Mandy's Kinder".......4 infant Moreton Bay Figs around the edges of that Coral Tree. Mandy has raised these beauties from fruit falling at her place. Check on our struggling Banksias behind the  Blady Grass  & free up as required, then weed west to the Title boundary wall. Anyone obsessed with  Japanese Honeysuckle  can keep up the fight along  Woodlands Ck . Weather is expected to be cool with light showers possible. Recent rain may have reawakened some of our bugs & leeches & you-know-who might be warming up if some warm pools of sunshine are on offer, so ...
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January 2nd week

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Quiet Little Drink  If you arrive early and bring a spade we can dig out that bike. Down along  Woodlands Creek is a weed forest (inc.  Montbretia and Bidens Pelosa ) so that's where tomorrow's first worksite will be except for those we delegate on a mission into WARC territory to deal with other miscreants on the way. There are also some small jobs in the  Blady Grass  areas inc.  Purpletop , Fleabane  and the occasional  Lily .  Some struggling plantings needing TLC +water At  Manifest Destiny  there needs to be some selective track clearing to access the Madeira Vine  around and under the cardboard. Stone  Road/Boge Massacre sites have scattered  Purpletop .   2025 Flanagans Creek   We have been officially authorised to begin work at Flanagans Creek & we are part of the New Imperialist Zeitgeist imperilling the Old World Order, and we start tomorrow. I will have the Official Bushcare Sign...
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January 1st week

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High tide  A 2m high tide around 10.30 am tomorrow but little chance of erosive power given the gentle surf at the moment. Fine & mild forecast so ideal conditions for; attack on The Ditch weeds while/if it remains dry Fleabane , Nightshades & Asparagus across Lisa's Site &  Manifest Destiny . thin out  Persicaria & rescue  Manifest Destiny  plantings. And  Madeira , of course. Sawyers will have some broken branch & dead tree work if they are available. 2025 Weed On At Woodlands Ck, and the Purple Top through to the Blady Grass area could reward our florists, but Manifest Destiny & the shady weeds there will be the main game. Madeira will be top priority but Cape Ivy, Honeysuckle , Crofton & Cassia also need to be driven back. 2024 & 2023 New Years Day 2022 Water needed Please bring some water to apply to our December plantings. Reports are that the odd weed has popped up over the last fortnight.  
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December 5th week

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Flanagans tidy up Join us at the Flanagans site at 8.30. December is a 5 Monday month, morning will be cool so hopefully no crowd, & there was quite a bit of rubbish there this morning, plus some Lantana regrowth that needs work   It is that time when the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Zanda funerea) passes through. 2024 Tough week to endure We return to the Stony Rd & Ted's Patch for a bit more weeding & watering & there's more work along the edge of Woodlands Ck. After that its time to fold up & stack the "Lounge Area", if its still there, and I'll report it to WCC for removal.  Some fallen timber to cut up/re-locate & a lesson in dealing with Madeira Vine awaits over by Hewitts Ck. Also new plantings need water.  
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December 4th week

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 Eat Healthy Weeds If needed there's shady work at  Woodlands Ck &  Manifest Destiny / Lisa's Site but a few  Lantana &  Purpletop , are waving at us from the southern half of the Blady Grass .  The Cycleway edge also has some impertinent Bidens ,  Purpletop  &  Fleabane  requiring removal. For the next 4 Mondays come to Bushcare if you don't have a better offer.  We'll nominate which site each Sunday based on weather, weeds, rubbish & crowds.  2024 Cool & cloudy  We'll return to Woodlands Ck edge for some clearing & also weed Ted's Patch & along the Stony Rd. Ross & Garry please bring your paper bags of Kangaroo Grass seeds for distribution after the weeding. If numbers allow we may do some work in Manifest Destiny where Laura will hopefully have some plants to put in.  A few litres of water will help 2023 Christmas day 2022 Weed of the week   Curly d...
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December 3rd week

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 Chance of Showers for Return to Flanagans Three main sites to choose from: Coupe 3 has a lovely collection of Cacti in the north-east corner; about 25 of the little spiky monsters to be dug out & bagged. Our planted area requires careful weeders to extract  Morning Glory , Asparagus & Lantana , especially where close to our little treasures. There's also a regrowth Norfolk Is. Hibiscus to be  dealt with. The North side of Flanagans Ck has quite a bit of  Morning Glory with its big purple flowers on show. Pulling & bagging or scraping & poisoning needed in various spots between the bridge & the shelter shed. There's an evil red flowered spiky thing and Fennel further east & then concentrated  Morning Glory  & Asparagus at the back of the beach.  2024 Planting in our Narrow Strip Some Sandpaper Figs will go into Manifest Destiny. A peculiar Trowel may well appear to place some of these darlings into the ground. We ...
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