Report on the July Working Bee on Beleura Cliff Path
We had ten volunteers. We worked at keeping the path trimmed back, pulling out weeds, and planting seedlings in any gaps along the path shoulders. The path here is in great condition and safer than it has ever been. Seedlings planted: 1. Coast Beard Heath, (Leucopogon parviflorus), see photo above, a small flowering tree with deep, fine roots. 2. Eutaxia microphylla, a deep-rooted tough-as-nails shrub that produces banks of “egg-and-bacon” flowers in Dec/Jan …
Harry Briedahl trims back a Sallow Wattle, a common shallow-rooted, short-lived wattle hybrid, classed as a weed. He leaves the trunk and roots. This makes room for us to plant long-lived deep rooted plants on either side, incuding the true Coastal Wattle.