Its wet here, much wetter than 2008, water and moss is everywhere, but spring has been sighted..yep the silver wattles are out in absolute splendor, and everything else is rearing to go, all the fruit trees are budding up, with the peach trees already blossoming.
Recent plantings include:
Autumn raspberry
Gooseberries
Cranberries
Warrigal greens
Elderberry
Borage and comfrey seed in fruit tree mulch
Truffled English oak
Truffled French oak
Quince
Hazelnuts
Walnuts
- Andean
- black
- Chandler
- Wilson
Chestnut
Gooseberry
Nellie Kelly strawberry
Recently, we also got to try wild duck, shot down by the neighbors overnight. Thats the country lifestyle!
Silver wattles in the regeneration zone
View to silver wattles from waterfall
Area below waterfall
Forest across from waterfall
Waterfall fairy?
Even the small trees are full of life and color
Kangaroo fern in full splendor
Blackwood and moss
Fern gully #3
More Blackwood moss
More fungal wonder
Wendy just made it back from the waterfall
The forest floor rejuvenates after blackberry clearance. Native elderberry, musk wood and kangaroo paw trees are quick colonizers. In the open pastures I found 20 young blackwoods today, all munched to near death by friendly marsupials. Now there are 20 blackwoods with tree protectors around them, they should take off and help regenerate the first valley area.
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greetings from just around the corner. We are near seaview, between Warragul and Leongatha in the Strezeleckis. Good to read what others in this beautiful part of the world are up to. We are doing similar stuff, planting, trying to grow our food, keeping chooks etc etc.
ReplyDeletethe rain has been fantastic, hasn't it.
Just to let you know, the "fungal wonder" fungi is Trametes versicolor (turkey tail mushrooms) and they are fantastic fungi: http://permaculturetokyo.blogspot.com/2009/03/species-of-month-trametes-versicolor.html
ReplyDeleteThat's a great photo of them you took, by the way!