Our March Working Bees

 

Saturday Working Bee:

We gathered after a couple of scorching hot days with no rain to discuss the days’ tasks for our Autumn clean up.

•  Our newly planted garden at our store room needed a good watering as well as some weeding of errant self-seeding weeds.  Chris M set up an ingenious hose holder (aka fork) to ensure the entire bed was completely soaked.

•  NBC’s Scott took care of cutting, trimming and removing dead foliage as well as loading up the Council truck.

• The perennial garden bordering the Bowling Club was weeded and new plants went in the ground.  Lynn took care of  weeding, Tania took care of the planting and Ron followed along with a watering can and a helping hand to cart away the weed   bags.

Today’s plant selection:  French Lavender; Alternanthera dentate “Little Ruby” (a compact richly-coloured ground cover); and Nandina Moon Bay (a robust evergreen perennial, narrow and cane like).

Wednesday's Bee:

A hot steamy day, threatening rain (which came later that day) and a great volunteer turnout today!

We were tasked with more Autumn cleanup over a large area alongside a popular pedestrian pathway.

There were sun damaged plants, out of control weeds, an overrun of spider plants to deal with.  As well as our normal palm frond cleanup.

A massive effort by David, Lee, Toni, Gordon and Tony – as you can see..