Category: Area 6 - Friends of Glenfern Valley Bushlands

Bush Restoration Photos, June 2023

24/6/2023

After a run of weather-related cancellations, we had a great turn-out last Sunday, along with a couple of new friendly faces.

Working in beautiful grassy areas 6 and 7 there were few weeds to be found - a nice surprise for us. Which left more time for taking photos…

Thanks to everyone who volunteered their time.

Photos by Daniel, Nicole and Mike

New Plantings In Glenfern

10/10/2020

Covid-19 restrictions has held up our tree planting program this season. We have had 150 seedlings in limbo as volunteering is not a permitted activity during Stage Four lock-down.

Council have very generously stepped in to help us. Many thanks to Steve Feather and his team the 150 plants are in the ground.

They are located in the area cleared of pittosporum earlier this year - west (high side) of Wallaby Walk. Thank you Yarra Ranges Council for getting the plants in. Our bush regeneration is alive and well!

Bush Restoration Photos, July 2019

22/7/2019

On Saturday’s bush restoration
The volunteers’ main occupation
Was having some fun
Out there in the sun
– and ending the pittos vacation.

Sweet pittos grow so very dense
Their leaf litter acts as a fence
For keeping out most
Of preferable growth
Diversity – the main expense

Thanks, to all that helped out
This text on your screen a shout-out
With none of your work
The weeds – bizerk!
Hickory dickory dock ohh no what happened!...

Upcoming: Bush Restoration, 20 July 2019

17/7/2019

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Pitto Removal Continues Thanks To DELWP

17/7/2019

Thank you DELWP for a Community & Volunteer Action Grant. It has been used to remove more of the jungle of Sweet Pittosporums as well as providing funds to replant the area with indigenous plants. Here is a before and after photo.

Tree Planting Morning Photos

14/7/2019

We were lucky to have a fine day to re-plant an area that was recently cleared of Sweet Pittosporum. Now the plants are being well watered by all this rain. Thank you to the amazing volunteers who managed to plant all the plants we had into this rough, log strewn area. Thank you DELWP for providing the grant funding for the Pitto removal and replanting.

Photos by Linda Fullagar

Environmental & Bushfire Reduction Project

3/8/2016

AKA Operation "Goodbye Pittos"!

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Bush Restoration Photos, May 2015

24/5/2015

We all felt quite satisfied after today's bush restoration morning as we could see that we were making a difference in the Pittosporum jungle. Our plan over the last few years has been not only work on the edge of the Pitto jungle but to poison the pittos in a 'honeycomb' pattern which opens up areas to naturally regenerate. Our system is that we have two teams of drillers and fillers that kill the standing, larger Pittos and the rest of us tackle the smaller ones. Weeping grass, Sweet Bursaria, Native Raspberry, Forest Nightshade, Prickly Currant Bush and Silver & Black Wattles are just some of the native plants we saw regenerating. We are lucky that the native seed bank is still there. Thank you to all the Glenfern Friends that are helping to make the Bushlands such a special place.

Photos by Linda Fullagar & Daniel Jackson