Bushcare Hewitts Creek

Founding Anniversary picnic Bushcaring to be done: Watering our very (& less) recent plantings there are 3 sizable branches down so sawyers will be welcome Bob will need a pioneering assistant as he forges a track from Manifest Destiny to Hewitts Ck Lilies are trying to pop up but are being chewed off by rabbits/deer? Once you recognise the look they are easily dug We should clean up Lisa's Site. 2023 Our website's second year  As explained last year below is what we did last year. It is the same time of year so the weeds listed for previous years will again be showing themselves. Maybe some have been eradicated, it is worth checking. Big blackberry now with unfettered access. Near there are baby Crinum lilies to relocate and Crofton weed in flower (bag flowers). Condon's corner has Turkey rhubarb sprouting under dead coast wattle. Try to remove Turk corms. NE Corner ; between three ancient fence posts cut back Lantana - but leave screen. A regrowth of African oliv

Planting tomorrow  Most of the sites will be towards Woodlands Ck where salt water isn't a problem so if we all bring a watering can/bottle refills from the shaduf & big container should be pretty efficient. A track making opportunity is now apparent at the far end of Manifest Destiny so Choppers need not despair. 2023 Just smile & nod like normal  Here's the list Ian asked Ted to publish: several smaller jobs along the cycleway a bit of watering for the Woodlands Ck plantings Ross! there appear to be Lilies emerging hammer in steel posts with chicken wire to protect the Condon Cedars (& take a nice pic to send them).  Splitters!! & continue into Manifest Destiny to weed weeds. there's a little high quality sieve work to be done at the Madeira site 2022 Weed of the week  Lambs Tongue or Ribwort Plantain . Plantago lanceolata A number of weedy sites to attack. More Turkey Rhubarb , Formosa  Lily , Nightshade & Cottonbush and the ubiquitous Morning G

Success with Bushcare required Lisa's site needs considerable work tomorrow. Gary's "seawall held up well against the big seas. There are a series of 1.9m tides from tonight. There's more to do at Andrew's Amnesia, a small Lantana chop up the dirt track, protection for our Treefern to be installed & some Lilies to be hunted down. 2023 The monarch of weeds, Madeira Vine .  Now we can be a real Bushcare Group engaged in a never-ending battle with Anredera cordifolia. Its on Lisa's site, probably floated in when the lagoon was at its highest, and it becomes our top priority because it never sleeps, can grow 10m in one Spring/Summer & is extremely difficult to eradicate. Great care needed. Intrepid choppers may have some work nearby because the lagoon level has dropped a bit and long loppers may be able to reach the skywards stretch of some big lantana . Blackberry botherers can return to the Big B but those bags have yet to be removed. McKellar Glade

 Go West The following are priorities: watering our most recent plantings, especially in the dryer areas. Creek water is likely to be too salty after the high tides & wave event Lily & Lantana removal in our newest area, south side of the McCauleys Estate track the itinerant Israeli has invaded its usual haunts, now there's a parallel Cape Ivy, Cassia, Privet, Honeysuckle, MG, there's always work at Andrew's Amnesia & Manifest Destiny a Turk expert could be employed, west edge of cycleway Anyone with an interest in fishing could "rescue" the biggest bits of junk from the creek 2023 Solid precipitation Check the BOM . If we do work it would mostly be along the cycleway, at the Big Blackberry near Steve's Beach , at McKellar Glade & along Woodlands Ck . 2022 War declaration A declaration of war on Privet & Blackberry . We have some fallen timber cutting up to continue with, Blackberry is "a hardy perennial" & there is

A Diminished Thing Tomorrow begins a new era for our group with our work restricted to areas west of the cycleway. I will produce a full explanation of these changes later in the week. A reminder that our 10th Annual Foundation Picnic is set for Monday 26th August. The waves & tides of the last week have dammed Hewitts Creek & filled it, the shoreline & beyond with sea-wrack so removal of plastic, treated timber & general rubbish will be first task tomorrow. Hoes & metal rakes will be useful in returning these deposits to the back of the beach. Our plantings up the McCauleys Beach Estate track need a visit to counter regrowth Lantana , Lilies et al. July was very dry as is the coming week so watering of our more recent plantings should also be on the agenda. You may also have seen considerable clearing work done up Woodlands Ck & across to Wilkies Walk area. This has been done by Southern Habitat , contractors for Paul Nichols, the land developer, who owns the