Garden Route Therapy

This week marked the final session for this year of the Community Stewardship Program at Nordheimer Ravine. We had a small but hard working team out, including visiting stewards from other sites and a very large slug who drew considerable attention. Our job was to dig in 30 plants (native species): Red Maple, Grey Dogwood and Purple Flowering Raspberry. This planting converted a previously mowed grass area into a small extend naturalized space. After planting we added mulch mats (to keep the weeds down), two buckets of mulch (to retain moisture around the plants) and trees guards where appropriate (to protect from nibbling animals). Working together we finished just before it got too dark to be in the park. The rapidly disappearing sunlight a reminder that autumn has arrived.