Glade Place entry to LeRoys Bush - next working bee on 14 May and report on planting programme.

[Keith Salmon]

Hi All

 

Thank you very much to all of you who helped at the last working bee on 9 April.  We made excellent progress thanks to the great turnout and hard work.

 

Some great news since then:  Caren Shrubshall has arranged a great range of plants from the Kaipatiki Project to plant in the area we cleared - hardy colonising plants that will help us keep the weeds down and prepare the gully for planting other trees in future.  I expect we could plant them at the next working bee (9 to 11am on Sunday 14 May) - how do the experts amongst you feel about this?  There are about 66 plants in all including coprosmas, flax, toetoe and one or two I don't know the name of.

 

Some of you indicated at the working bee that you would like to see a copy of the excellent report about planting the Glade Place entry to LeRoys Bush.  It was prepared by Caren Shrubshall (as part of the Nature For Neighbourhoods project -  a joint project between Kaipatiki Project, Biodiversity Advice Fund and the North Shore City Council). If you would like a copy please see the note below.

 

Looking forward to seeing you on 14 May.

 

Regards, Keith

 

PS

(1)  My apologies for the delay in making a copy of the report available.

It is 439 KB - so please let me know if you would like me to email you a file this big. Otherwise you can look at a copy at the next working bee or give me a call on 4809233.

 

(2) If you are wondering what the email address LeRoys-Bush-and-...@googlegroups.com is about - we have set up a Google group so that people can subscribe themselves to a discussion group about LeRoys Bush if they are interested.  See the website: http://groups.google.com/group/LeRoys-Bush-and-Little-Shoal-Bay if you are interested in trying it out.  If you don't subscribe, we will continue to send you the occasional email to the your address as used for this email.  But if you would prefer not to receive further emails, please let me know.

 

 

 

 

 

[Keith Salmon]

Hi All

 

Committee Meeting Tuesday 16 May:

 

The monthly committee meeting of the Le Roys Bush/Little Shoal Bay Management Committee will be held this Tuesday at 7.30pm at LeeAnne's house - 6 / 160 Onewa Road.  

If you can spare the time, you would be very welcome to join us.  Meetings are fairly brief but provide an opportunity to provide feedback to the City Council parks officers about any issues impacting on the reserve.  A copy of the minutes go to the Community Board. 

 

 

Planting Bee at LeRoys Bush - report:

 

Thanks very very much to all of you who helped plant over 60 trees, flaxes, sedges etc at the Glade Place entry to LeRoys Bush this morning.

It is great to see all those plants in the ground.  Thanks in particular to new-comers Claire, Steve and Lesley.

 

For those of you who weren't able to make it, we planted - thanks to plants from Kaipatiki via Caren and to Neil -  some native umbrella sedges along the stream and a mix of toetoe, flax, whiteywood, matipo, karamu, kanuka, manuka and cabbage trees on the banks on either side . 

 

A few items we will discuss at Tuesday's committee meeting:

 * We have placed stakes by the plants to reduce the risk that council contractors will weed-spray them.

 

 * Should we ask Council to consider removing the large coral tree (aka flame tree) which is getting into the powerlines at the south end of the gulley; a branch has dropped on a car not long ago and seedlings are growing in the gulley. These trees coppice readily. Maybe we could suggest a vandal proof seat in its place and natives around it.

 

 * There has been a small slip on the eastern side of the stream (judging by the high water mark left by autumn leaves it might have been caused by a very heavy deluge coming down the culvert from the head of the gulley).

 

 * There is some German Ivy on the western side of the gulley - apparently very invasive.

 

Regards, Keith 

For the committee 

 

PS LeRoys-Bush-and-...@googlegroups.com a Google discussion group about LeRoys Bush  See the website: http://groups.google.com/group/LeRoys-Bush-and-Little-Shoal-Bay if you  want to try it out.   

If you don't subscribe, we will continue to send you the occasional email to the your address as used for this email.   

If you would prefer not to receive further emails, please let me know by return email .

 

PSS Remember the  "Volunteer Planting Day - Little Shoal Bay, Northcote"  16 July 2006 10am to noon.  Off Maritime Tce, Northcote.

For further information regarding this and other NSCC planting day events, please contact Angela Levet, Citywide Parks Officer on 09 486 8564.

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