January 3rd week

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 tread warily. 

Cotton Bush

2025 Back to the creek

Woodlands Ck; cycleway intersection and up the creek have flowering Montbretia, Crofton, Lilies to bag. Plus honeysuckle, cassia regrowth, Fleabane and Bidens.

Ted's patch has Crofton, a big Scotch thistle and Japanese Honeysuckle.

Stony Rd; has purpletop, Japanese Honeysuckle, cassia and Crofton.

Blady Grass; has Cotton Bush, Bidens, Lilies, purpletop and Passion flower

2024 No Work Today?

Forecast*  suggests there is only a 5% chance of no rain.

Montbretia mining & vine peeling from valued natives would have been the priorities.

2023 Urgent tasks are;

• weeding the tree fall clearing
  
• a big Moth Vine in flower
• Japanese Honeysuckle spreading towards the Blady Grass
  
• Morning Glory flowering in the Blady Grass
• Blackberry, Lilies, Bidens, Fleabane, Nightshade along the south edge of the New Forest .

2022 Weed of the week

Balloon Cottonbush was from South Africa originally.
We also have a Polygala garden escapee that looks similar until the balloon stage.

So, start in the grassy areas where Montbretia, Lilies, Cottonbush et al are blooming and move to areas where Morning Glory, Asparagus & Cassia are on the march.

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