After Sunday’s relaxing time trying out the cycle tracks and picnic for fathers day it was back to the grindstone today. Started off with some corner post supports in the Gem, some bee killing, removal of more wire mesh and broken pipe moving on to cleaning up last weeks logs and branches of the Widdringtonia. Ellie also cleaned the surface of the picnic table by the Xhosa huts in preparation for some varnish.
After tea we continued with what I had started last week and widened and mowed the Fynbos Ramble including around Wesley’s bench. It looks a whole lot better again. It was quite a bit of work so we had to finish off after lunch.
Goodman had confirmed in the morning that he wants the Strelizias in the entrance circle cut down so we went there to cut a few branches off and ended up doing the whole thing. Next time we must still cut the stumps a bit shorter and poison them before going on to the last and biggest one.
It got quite cold and windy so we returned to the arboretum to plant some Agapanthus in the Gem before doing the usual in the Fovs room.
