Bushcare Hewitts Creek

2026 Woodlands Crk plan fail Plans for this week had to be moved to the second week. Slight problem of a council contractor spraying upwind of the place where we all planned to work. Clean up Australia happened first and then we did some bushcare, mostly along the cycleway.   2025 Clean up Australia A photo opportunity for the next Flame edition, some bushcare & then some Clean Up Australia, so quite a busy session. Should the rain hold off, flowering Lilies are the first priority. Flowering Cassias at Woodlands Ck can be removed so long as we can suitably relocate the shaduf & then it's over to the back of the Blady Grass for a weed salad or over to Manifest Destiny for attack on various regrowths. Correct PPE or you could find yourself hidden at the back among the Talls. Thanks to Ian & Ross for the day's activities.  2024 Open area weeding Cool, grey & 21 degrees means we can attack Morning Glory on Steve's Beach , Turkey Rhubarb at Condons Corner ,...

Destiny's offspring  Manifest Destiny  will be the main focus mostly  Fleabane and  Nightshade. In the Blady grass  there are  Bidens ,  Fleabane , Purpletop  and  Nightshade   Finally there are lots of grass seeds everywhere, especially  paspalum , pluck them and bag them.  2025 Some leftovers from last week If it is dry there is quite a lot of regrowth of African olive and Privet in Manifest Destiny, cut and paint. Lilies will continue to show themselves for a few weeks. Dig them out and bag the bulbs and the flowers. In the Blady grass   Bidens , Cottonbush, Fleabane , Purpletop , Nightshade and Crofton are all sprouting. Cassias are set to flower, bag seed pods from previous flowering. The other Morning glory is getting away up the Dirt track around the mound and ditch. 2024 Options work in the sun  work in tall scratchy natives  repelling the invaders at Woodlands Ck   a new Lantana Project, an...

Coop 3 Flanagans We will be restricting our activities to only Coop 3 at Thirroul Beach. We have left it alone so far. There are reasons why the other coops and neigbouring areas will be left out of activities. New meeting place; the north side of the Thirroul Surf Club. Those driving should park near or in the surf club parking area.  In order of how much of these weeds there are on that site: Asparagus  - there are two types in the coop. See the video above for the technique to remove it from sandy soil. Note: the key thing is to do one and only, one plant at a time Get EVERY frond not just some of them. Twist and pull, then shake. Bag the whole plant, don't chase the tubers. Start with the small plants on their own and build to larger plants and tangled plants. Lantana . Do not attack whole plants, they are habitat.  Use secuteurs to only  remove branches that are competing with native plants. Coastal morning glory  - bag everything. Observe and decide ...

Flanagans if Not Rained Off  Most work tomorrow will be along the north bank of the creek & onto the first section of back beach:   Morning Glory ,  Fennel,  Bidens  & rubbish. There's some cleaning up of rubbish within the three coupes & some weeding of our planted area in the northern one.  2025 Weed of the week Ehrharta erecta   (or Panic Veldt-grass) is along the track on the creekside of Hewitts Creek and is too widespread to target complete removal. Just bag large specimens (in full seed) and any of the grass that is competing with native plants.   Flowering Cassias at Woodlands Ck can be removed & then its to the back of the Blady Grass for a weed salad or over to Manifest Destiny for attack on various regrowths. Given the rain forecast there should be no cut & paint tomorrow. Might also dig up a few unfortunately positioned Sandpaper Figs for relocation or temporary nursery. Check out previous years for jo...

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...

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 ...

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 ...