Avoiding Uniformity
Visitor Centre Russell Falls Track
Saturday 21 October 2017
Showers were predicted although the Upper Derwent valley
forecast suggested these would not be until late afternoon or evening. We did hear from Linda, the duty Ranger, that
it was cold and windy and wet in the alpine area, but at the visitor centre it remained
lovely and sunny.
Beside the new track to Russell Falls a group of Tree ferns
(Dicksonia Antarctica) had been placed in too uniformly spaced rows and Parks
wanted them to be set out in a more natural looking way. There were also a
small number of shrubs remaining from a grant and these were interspersed with
the ferns.
A temporary fence was a potential task but as it was both a
larger job than imagined and there was now some doubt if Parks still wanted the
fence, we left this off the work list.
It did mean the work for the day was finished by lunchtime, giving us a
shorter and easier day than is often the case.
On rereading the instructions left for the ferns, I realised
that I had forgotten the suggestion of moving some ferns to the other side of
the track. We had actually discussed
this amongst ourselves and there was some conjecture about purchasing some Musk
and other plants for there. So, this is something
to discuss with Parks.
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| Ferns in uniform rows - photo from Trevor |
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| Now not so uniform |
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| At work on the plants |
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