More black eyed susan flowers needing eradication. Tracing their tendrils to source, then scraping and painting.
Disclaimer: We do not condone, ignore or promote interpersonal violence, nor do we think it amusing. Our headline refers only to to the plants we were dealing with.
The drainage works we did months ago under Ed’s expert tutelage are finally getting a good workout — and are performing beautifully. (Photo from Howard)
Mostly cleared a big patch of Jasmine. Ed found a lot of garden escapees down in the creek bed.
The flowering of black-eyed susans has helped us see the extent to which they’ve infested part of the gully. We started clearing them today, around one of the stormwater drains, ready to build another retention basin and stop the plume of 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
What we do with Fishbone Fern in the Blue Mountains.
Bags of Mothers of Millions being loaded onto Pete’s truck at the end of the morning’s work. But are we winning?
George shows the Lantana who holds the cudgel. 
Mary inspects a cleared zone, as Chris contemplates more defoliation
Mothers of millions were in flower down near the footbridge, and we filled quite a few bags of them. Lots remaining, though.