Brisbane First Chinese Scout Group
By: Michael Fox
130 participants planted 450 native shrubs, vines and grasses … another successful National Tree Day and another large area of Fox Gully Bushcare restored.
As in past years many community groups returned for our 2019 event:
- Carina Sai Centre were first to register
- Brisbane First Chinese Scout Group
- Shinnyo buddhists (Shinnyoen)
- QUT Golden Key Chapter – Student club
- Griffith Mates
- Resurge Digital Team
- Many other groups and community members
Welcome to Resurge Digital Team … looking forward to meeting again in 2020
Holes ready: planting underway
Please accept my apologies if I got any names wrong or missed any groups. I normally do this report soon after the event.
Thank you to the BCC Habitat Brisbane team who organised the plants, mulch and holes for the planting.
National Tree Day is always an inspiration, having all these community members helping us restore the Reserve.
Weeding team returns
The Weeding Team cleared a huge area of the invasive Fishbone Fern Nephrolepis cordifolia, Fishbone is a native but not to Brisbane bushland and parks where it is an invasive weed.
Thanks to the Teams work Fishbone is well on the way to be eradicated from another part of Fox Gully Bushcare.
Griffith Mates Team
Of course it is never all work and no play.
Georgia (left) and Jake planting
Three months on and thanks to the watering done by Jake, Georgia and Robyn while I was away, only four plants have died, our best result ever. And click on the photos to see the amazing growth of Native Sarsaparilla Hardenbergia violacea which is already growing out the top of the green plant shelters.
Spangled Drongo
Jake, Georgia and Griffith Mates have been working with me to finish the planting. Watched over by a Spangled Drongo Dicrurus bracteatus.
Mount Gravatt Environment Group 