Upstream of the Native Plant Trail

Zone Bc:
looking upstream (post-release from Tradescantia, ginger, Montbretia and a few tree/shrub weeds)

looking downstream

• An exploratory Tradescantia- weed along the Witheford-side (on the right here) streambank upstream of the footbridge disclosed some treasures and resulted in some large piles of Tradescantia on both sides of the stream. As soon as we sat down to rest and enjoy the results, a young tui arrived to forage at length in the exposed soil.

Zone Bc:
looking upstream (not accessible by land until the right (Kaipatiki Rd) bank is weeded, so not further surveyed in 2019, but upstream from here was the loveliest part of the stream in 1997-99, with pebble streambed, and low banks hand-weeded and covered in kidney and filmy ferns and regen ti kouka/carex/pate/coprosma)

Posted on September 26, 2019 11:25 PM by kaipatiki_naturewatch