Van Stadens

Been a bit slack lately, I think I missed the last three trips, two of those were walks and only one was a ‘work in the arboretum’ Wednesday. It was Rob’s first day this year that he employed two helpers to remove Podalyrias which have resprouted and he needed the broad pick so the first […]

Unseasonal, that’s the best word to describe the weather today. The heat got a bit unbearable at times and we did our best to stay out of the sun. First thing we did was to check the pond, still full so all leaks were fixed and some buck spoor around it so we were happy

Quite unusual today as we had no set plan of action, usually we know what we want to achieve on a particular day. On the way we got a mayday call from Jenny as both her an Rob did not have keys to the room so it was important that we opened up. This prompted

Cold and raining today, autumn is definitely here. We were in two minds whether to go or not but windguru showed that the rain would taper off so I thought it would be a good opportunity to retrieve a piece of old water pipe from Gibson\\\\\\\’s farm. On arrival Ellie went to see Goodman with

Busy busy today, not even time for pictures so a quick summary of what got done is in order. On arrival Ellie noticed Goodman was in his office so she gate-crashed a meeting he had there with Tony and another to discuss a few things such as the cross, the arboretum, the specimen tags etc.

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