Finally, today, we had a sunny morning for our weekly work session. I haven't posted since our spring planting party so I need to back track. Essentially, Jim, Gary and I have continued our maintenance work, making sure our plantings succeed. Our invasive plant of the month has been field bindweed, AKA morning glory.
On April 30, a week after the planting, we brought in more chip to create a deeper mulch in this extended restoration area. It may have been our imagination but we thought the new plants actually grew in one week! For the record, here are couple of photos:
The only other thing to note from this last day of April was that earlier in the week, Gary had found jugs of motor oil and some sludgy stuff in a plastic bag in a bucket. Later in the day when I was doing errands, I took this refuse to the north parking lot, left it by the trash can, and emailed Kirk and Tony H to ask them to pick it up for proper disposal. Why people use a park as a dump is beyond me.
On May 7, it seemed spring was finally emerging. Avens along the trail, right before you get to our planting areas, had grown vigorously. They were much taller than what I recall from a year ago. Also, in the next photo, the columbine was about to bloom.
The columbine was blooming a week later, on May 14. We were basically removing as much morning glory as we could, particularly around our plantings.
Gary found this interesting specimen: a morning glory had grown through a hollowed out twig.
Today, we were in the Southern Forest to keep the morning glory off the plants from the fall, 2015 planting. It was super sunny and the twinberry had produced twin flowers. Robby showed up and worked with us for couple of hours.
Later, Gary, Jim and I walked over to the arboretum. The oxalis beneath the redwoods have gotten huge! Here's Gary's gloved hand in the mat of oxalis.
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