Visit to Wattle Valley, a Climate Ready Reveg trial site
Climate Ready Revegetation Project Update, Feb 2023
The YAN Climate Ready Revegetation trial is in its third year. Eight volunteer landholders across the Yass Valley are hosting trial sites. Tubestock planting occurred in Autumn/Winter 2020, and involved three species: Eucalyptus melliodora (Yellow Box), Acacia deanei (Green wattle) and Dodonaea viscosa (Slender Hop bush). Half the plants
...Native seed cleaning and extraction workshop 11th Feb 2023
Yass Landcare Community nursery will be having a native seed cleaning and extraction workshop on Saturday 11 February from 9.30 at 1428 Yass Valley Way behind the Yass Community Centre or Yass Men's Shed. Please bring any seed you may have collected but if you don't have any we have the following seed which needs to be cleaned and packaged up for future sowing.
Acacia
...Allocasuarina verticillata (Drooping She-Oak)
This is a small, upright evergreen tree, usually with a rounded crown. The bark is grey-brown and furrowed. Leaves are tiny pointed scales arranged around pendulous branchlets. On male trees, flower spikes begin to swell at the ends of branchlets in autumn and become showy orange-yellow tassels in late autumn and winter. Female trees produce small red and cream fluffy flowers on their
...