The next scheduled Landcare session is on Monday 1st July. We’ll meet in Hammett Place, Spence by 09.30.
We’ll walk up to the reserve on the path near the Tudor house.
We’ll continue to check for and remove seedling and sapling Privets, Cotoneaster, Firethorn, Nandina, and Ivy. These are all species whose ancestors were given out in the 1970s for people to plant as their houses were built. They all have berries that birds eat and drop into the reserve or other gardens.
With the soils still damp it’s usually a case of pulling up the plants but some need to be cut down at ground level with secateurs or loppers.
There’s at least one ivy infestation for which spraying contractors were called in. The Ginninderra Catchment Group secured a grant to treat the ivy.
Interestingly there’s different death rates for each of the ivy species. Perhaps there’s a difference in the waxiness of the leaves as the waxiness will repel water and the herbicide.
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