buffy said:

ruby said:

buffy said:

I went to the wetland before 7.00am this morning to plant out some more Little Plants that I brought back from the covenant on Sunday. They have been hydrating their roots in water since then. Now I will write a report for the meeting tonight. The chocolate lilies that our botanist grew and gave to me to plant out seem to be OK. Some losses, but that was always going to happen, and I suspect some I just can’t find and may well come back up next year. At least one of them tried putting up a flowering stem but it’s gone – I hope the wallaby or rabbit enjoyed it. Lobelia pedunculata (matted pratia) seems happy and is starting to spread. Viola hederacea(Tiny violet) is hanging in there. I’ve put in about 25 species. I’m basically just randomly collecting from our slashed track areas and planting in a sheltered spot with a stick and branch cage over the top of them. I know all of these can handle having a high mow over the top of them in September. And after flowering if necessary. I’m enjoying this experiment.

That’s fab Buffy!
You might like the observation that they made for the yearly tree planting event at one of our wetlands. The wallabies were pulling out plants, they noticed that they really loved pulling out the Lomandras most of all. So for the last planting they put a wide zone of Lomandras around the inner zone of trees, and the trees survived….the wallabies ran out of steam before they get to the trees seedlings. So we’ll be growing lots more for next year.

Ah, I’ll pass that on tonight. Thanks.

Thumbs up :))
And thanks for introducing me to merino Humphrey Law socks. I’ve been wearing them in the hot weather and they are the best. Hoping they wear well because I love them. The penguin ones came out today.