We’re working from where the site is good outwards into weedier patches, and it’s a pleasure to see the thriving local vegetation. Even if they look a little forbidding.
You say tomato, I say native tomato
Category Archives: Flora
Pleasing Geitonoplesium
James is keen on our implementing the Bradley Method more rigorously, starting from the good and working outwards.
Here’s a little treasure, in flower right now. Geitonoplesium Simosum.
Blady Good Grass
Clearing asparagus fern to make way for blady grass.
Reeds against weeds
We’ve had several goes at stopping stormwater from carrying weed seeds into the bush. Someone from Council came once, with machinery, and created some beautiful stone lined retention basins, only to have someone else from Council come along a few months later and tear them up with a digger.
We built sandbags a little while back, placing them at the back of this basin. The bags have perished, though, so this time we built stone dams and planted reeds in front of them as a filter.
A few days later, Howard has photographed pooled runoff water in our main retention basin. So far so good.
Nathan harvesting reeds with eriostemon in foreground
A close-up of the eriostemon
Nathan and Howard consulting
Close-up of sedimentation pond with reeds planted with reeds
Howard took this ‘before’ shot of the work on Saturday
After some rain, water pooled in basin