Our July & August Working Bees

​July

Saturday Bee:  Great attendance today, with everyone working on perennial garden – blowing leaves, trimming shrubs, weeding, and cleaning out drain – as well as some weeding in the native garden.

Paul, our Council gardener today, brought the truck to bottom red gate and loaded it up with the stacks of fallen palm fronds and weeds.

Ishbel manned the desk and then helped prepare a welcome cuppa for Chris M, George, Ron, Carrie, and Chris W-S. 

Lois joined them in the Scout Hall to fill everyone in on the upcoming tree labelling project.

Wednesday Bee:  Only two gardeners this Wednesday – Chris M, as supervisor and Ron, the receptionist – but they got down to work weeding the native garden.

Note:  We apologise for the lack of happy snaps for the July Bees – your newsletter editor/photographer was on holiday – and the team were too busy to stop and click. 

August

Saturday Bee:  A little drizzly for our Bee today but we had what we thought would be a multi-day task – locating the trees that we are planning on labelling.  We needed to find the tree, take a photo of its ID tag and the tree itself and note its GPS location and make a note of that.  We then sat down in the Scout Hall to check on the maps and enjoy a cuppa, Lamington, and each other!  Well done team:  Dave, Anne, Tony, Chris W-S, Brandon, Ron, George, Lee and Max.

Wednesday Bee:  Just a few us of us today so we concentrated on weeding:  Kerrie, Tony and Ishbel and a friendly Butcher Bird.  We weeded around The Fernery mainly removing Tradescantia fluminensis (Wandering Trad) but located what we thought was another weed but after some quick online researching discovered it was a beneficial Australian ground cover Commelina cyanea (Scurvy Weed).