Wood duck meadows
See also: gardens
Home block since 2011. Originally used for small scale farming/market garden before being broken up into smaller lots. Ours being the original homestead and the largest block at 10 acres. More recently largely used as a horse meadows with closer to the house being planted with many different non-native trees and plants (e.g. agave). More recently many areas have been increasingly over grown with various weeds (e.g. aspargus fern, lantana, madeira-vine, cats-claw-creeper etc).
Plan is to "rewild" the place (re-)developing various regionally appropriate habitat types. An initial possible list including: Eucalypt woodlands, Brigalow scrub, and dry rainforest. Perhaps with a particular focus on semi-evergreen vine thickets
Zones#
The property is divided into various zones to aid discussion and planning.
| Zone | Description |
|---|---|
| brigalow-scrub | A small stand at the front of the property |
| rocky-creek-frontage | Gatton Creek frontage to the east of the round about |
| fig-tree-berm | Pre-existing berm near the bunker |
| lower-dam | Dam area on the Gatton creek frontage |
| [[orchard-corner]] | A nascent grove at the southern end of the property |
| [[pecan-corner]] | Pecan and other fruit/nut trees |
| roundabout | Long established lawn and path |
| the-island | The island in the dam |
| gatton-creek-frontage | Gatton Creek frontage to the west of the round about |
Measurement#
Tools and external projects#
List of projects/tools to help with various forms of measurement of what we're doing.
- Sketch up may be useful for mapping/planning.
- eBird for bird observations - see life-list
- BioCollect from the Atlas of Living Australia or related iNaturalist Australia
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Qld government
- Regrowth benefits interactive map - part of a re-growing native forest site, including regrowth management guides
State of the region#
Healthy Land & Water provides statistics showing a decline in vegetation across the broader south-east Queensland region since 2001, including:
- Losses of 7,384 hectares of remnant vegation, 54,983 hectares of woody vegetation, and 1,220 hectares of natural wetlands.
- Fragmentation of remaining vegetation tracts.
To do#
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Plant categorisation and selection
- Categories of plans (top layer, ground cover etc)
- Improvements to soil
- Companion plants to fig tree
- Identify the other big tree on fig-tree-berm
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Process for working on a berm