Strange weather today, not all that hot in the morning but very humid and in the afternoon extremely hot and not humid at all. The aim was to plant our sign, first collected some rocks to put around the pole to prevent our keen friend with the tractor to mow our sign to oblivion, then […]

Pillar, bench and islands in the dam We were keen to finally finish the water supply in the arboretum but, as we hadn’t managed on the previous two occasions, Ellie was keen to repaint the footsteps on the Link Trail so she did that first while I did some ‘gardening’ on the trail clearing some

A disappointing turnout meant that only eight stalwarts turned up. We drove down in two cars, parked at the lower bridge and soon found ourselves under the impressive upper bridge. There was plenty of water in the river and we saw some small fish. The alien infestation is quite bad with many wattles growing on

Add layer to pillar Poison strelizia by cycad patch and weed Trim bohemia at entrance Level shade house and take out poles Move birdbath

Corner posts pillar Cement one rock layer Sprayhead end of hosepipe test Level rock sign Dug out thorny creeper by bushmans poison Cut metal pipe Put Pienaar sign back on bench

Our monthly meeting, this time a talk by Kay and Angie from Elands nurseries. They had one to quite a bit of trouble bringing plants for the talk which made the poor turnout doubly disappointing. I feel the participation is going from bad to worse and seriously question the effort we put into doing all

Concrete around arboretum stopcock Fix leak by strelizia Plant ex Blue Horizon windmill farm Remove strelizia from albizia tree Collect rocks for bench

Sunday, 20 May 2012 It has been a good while since I made a blog entry so I just do this to make sure it all still works before posting something a little more serious again. This is the main dam at Van Stadens wild flower reserve. Since we have reconstructed the 3km long pipeline

Saturday, February 4,2012 Our first meeting of the year for the Friends of Van Stadens. It rained more than 100mm over the past few days and it showed by the poor turnout, only the diehards, Jenny, Ellie, Merike, Marc, Neil, Seato, Wesley and ourselves pitched. In spite of that or maybe because a smaller group

Saturday, August 13, 2011 Unpleasant weather, stong wind, temptation to stay indoors but also good for hiking so we decided to head off to Van Stadens to see if we could find a way to connect the River Walk and the Forest Walk as many people have requested. On arrival at the top lookout point