Bushcare Hewitts Creek

Priorities: Montbretia - look for the orange flowers Lilies are flowering, get flowers before they seed, bulbs where you can. McKellar Glade is out of control - get Polygala now in purple and white flower Big Fleabanes along the Cycleway in grassy area - need to bag seeds & flowers Turkey Rhubarb flourishing around three small sandpaper figs west of the Cycleway, 40m south of the bridge.  Polygala Vulgaris

Giant Black Rabbit Dig out & bag Montbretia which is flowering in multiple locations.  Up around the creek bend a native vine is overgrowing many of our plantings so an intervention is needed there before the next wind/rain storm brings them down (secateurs needed).   Lily hunters with solid digging gear can have free reign either side of the cycleway. 2023 Weed removal Our most recent plantings need weed removal and Japanese Honeysuckle nearby has to be controlled.  There is a second large Moth Vine to be exterminated, Morning Glory is on the march and Lilies are shooting most places, which means.....work for all. Given the rain we will have around 18 plantlets needing a home. 2022 Weed of the week Corky passionfruit (Passiflora suberosa) Once more unto the beach, creek, forest, grassland to carry on the fight. Priorities will be Morning Glory & Passionfruit along the west edge , Montbretia , Cottonbush & Lilies out in the open & Morning Glory runners in Manifes

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.  

 A list of weedy sites The top 5 are: Woodland Ck plantings Montbretia in flower everywhere Big blue MG is away & climbing along the track to McCauley Beach estate Pearl Vine is climbing everything that attempts vertical, around the creek bend Behind the Blady Grass every weed we possess is out-competing our plantings & each other A plastic picker-upper (with an interest in Geology) could be gainfully employed along the back of the beach, while a Lily Specialist could ferret forever in the Kikuyu , east of the Cycleway. 2023 The full suite of weediness It is blooming, from 3 metre Scotch Thistles & flaunting Fleabane to conspicuous flowering Cassia . It's mostly weeding tomorrow except for some opportunities to destroy Cassia for choppers /poisoners. 2022 A pandemic of weeds A full pandemic of weeds has arisen over the past three weeks but at least watering isn't an issue. We need to prioritise Lisa's Site , hacking into the reeds (see below) to see what l