This blog covers the past three weeks. These days it rains on Wednesdays so we have been somewhat affected by the weather. The Reserve has a special ambiance when it is wet and misty so from that point we do not mind at all. The Dell has been filled for quite a while now and, […]
With all the trees we have been planting on the main picnic area to replace the bluegums who refuse to die we needed a water supply nearby. As our dear chairlady has been agitating for this for some time we thought that we could put the left over pipe to good use and fulfil her
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Another trailer load of Proteas bagged up and delivered. We moved two big pallets into the shade house and put the bags on top, there is still room for more. The big worry was that there was no water at the nursery after our pipe fix, all was sorted when I discovered I had switched
Post Open Day drought as far as blogging is concerned, things are back to normal with not many interesting items to report on. The weeding, potting, planting etc. has been a bit neglected so it is catch up time as far as that is concerned. Riana has taken the greenhouse under her wing which is
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No time for blogging lately, it has been heads down to get everything ready for the Open Day. With a full program of Trail Running, Mountain Biking, Plant Sale, Guided Walks and Stalls there was a lot to be organized. Poor Ellie had to answer stacks of phone calls after the newspaper notices and especially
Due to three days of persistent rain we shifted our working day to Thursday and, oh boy, a working day it was. First though a meeting in the Flower House with Goodman to make sure we have all our ducks in a row for the Open Day, good to see that the girls had a
2025.06.09 About thirty geocaching enthusiasts descended on the Reserve today. The organizer, Brenton, had gone to a lot of trouble during the past few weeks to hide caches throughout the Reserve and to find suitable clues and tasks to help Fovs. It was a fantastic group of people, so enthusiastic and, in spite of the
The Open Day is getting close and there is still a fair amount of preparation to be done. Fortunately we had a good turnout of helpers today and Ellie, Cathy, Riana and newcomer Paul managed to colour-code almost all of the bags in the nursery so it will be easy to determine prices. We also
So little time, so much to do as there is only a month left until the Open Day. It looks like the sign we put at the entrance has generated a good deal of interest as people have been asking at the office what plants will be for sale. Of course they had no idea
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We had our monthly meeting today with the best turnout to date. Our guest speaker. the well known raptor expert Arnold Slabbert must have been an excellent draw card. He made it very clear to us that treating problem animals such as rodents with rat poison is a very bad practice and he showed us
