Flora Report June 2018

We have worked very hard planting out about 6000 new plants on the island in the last month, mostly at The View, Corner and The Track.

In this report, I went to see how The Wedge is looking as we have not had a working bee there for a long time. Apart from a need to spot spray the very small amount of bracken now coming through, there is no work needed as the Wedge is fully revegetated and doing very well. The plants are a combination of our planting and self sown or regenerated understorey. There is a huge proportion of burgan and aotus pea filling up the area. Also a lot of platysace, broom spurge, dampiera, heath and trigger plants. Many of the self seeded mannas are reaching good heights as well as the wattle trees, and a lot of those we planted are quite healthy. I noticed that there is a lot of moss covering the ground especially at the wider tip site end where the ground is fairly damp although there is moss at the narrower end but the ground there is drier. Probably a problem that should be addressed at some stage is that the grass from the tip site continues to encroach on the top end of The Wedge and we don’t want it to spread through the site.   

Claire