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The aim of the Trust is to plant trees and shrubs in and around Cambridge; to enhance the approaches

29/09/2026

Tuesday 29th September 2026 see us split up into smaller groups. some stayed at the nursery, some went spraying and some went to Jane's Lane to spread mulch. Council contractors had left a big heap of mulch for us and it shrank considerably during the morning.

The morning was interrupted by a spell of illness in one of our octogenarians and subsequent medical treatment. All turned out well in the end, though we await any developments with some anxiety.

24/09/2026

Thursday 24th September 2026. Today there were hardly any of us, so we left the sandpit to the possums and went out to the RDA paddock to plant a few flaxes.

The area has expanded considerably from the original plan and now goes right up the hill to the existing bush. There is more planting to be done, and mulch to be spread.

It's not easy digging. It should be, because the ground is boggy and soft, but it is crammed full of roots which are very well established and therefore hard to get a spade through. We managed though, and completed the day's planting in good time.

Then we did some more trimming in the established bush, getting next winter's firewood and clearing vines and underbrush to give better access to the trees. In a few years time we'll have a nice stand of bush here, and the flaxes will suck up the excess water beautifully.

22/09/2026

Girls can do anything!

Tuesday 22nd September 2026 and we're laying sand on the second half of the second plant bed in the nursery. The two septuagenarian women are using a board to level the sand while two octogenarian men deal with the filling of low spots by shifting scraped-up sand into them.

The local possums had a ball on the completed section and will no doubt do the same to this one. We'll sort it out on Thursday when we compact the sand and lay some w**d mat over it, weather permitting.

10/09/2026

Thursday, 10th September. A small turnout today. Perhaps the threat of rain kept people at home.

We'd finished re-laying the first block on the nursery, and put plants back on to it. Then we started on the next section.

The w**d mat there was slippery with moss and mould, and the plastic had started to rot. So had the wood holding it down. We found very little sand under the mat, so decided to leave the old surround in place and build up the level with fresh sand. That will be Tuesday's work next week.

Other members planted some big maples on the Maple Arboretum where there had been some casualties. The soil there suffers from being used by road building machinery and materials, and some of the trees haven't done well at all. We re-grassed one entire planting, and this small replacement was additional where individual trees had died.

01/09/2026

Tuesday, September 1st, was sunny sort of, with a chill wind. Some of us went to spread mulch in the St. Kilda subdivision and some of us stayed at the nursery.

Two of us continued the surprisingly difficult job of replacing the w**d mat. We got the last sheet down and started to screw down the timber edgings. That proved tricky. The top board drifted off the bottom board and we had a lot of adjustment to do. Some of the bottom board was semi-rotten and some was too hard for the screws to pe*****te. Maybe something was in the way.

We'll finish it on Thursday. The people who'd gone out to St. Kilda got back late, but they'd finished spreading the truckload of mulch that had been left for them. All told, it was a productive morning.

27/08/2026

On a lovely warm! day, 27th August, we did some more planting at the old RDA paddock. The mower driver still has to be sure where he can mow, and when his circuit is finalized we'll plant accordingly.

For the first time this winter, if it's still winter, we had to take off our warm jackets. There they are, piled up in a heap and photographed in celebration.

25/08/2026

Today, Tuesday 25th August 2026, some of us continued the replacement of w**d mat in the nursery while others went to plant trees for the Council.

This strip of mat went down better than the first. We learnt from our hard work last week. Even so, getting it straight was not easy. We had to undo it several times to get the wrinkles out, and check that the local critters hadn't upset our leveling. They hadn't, and the rain had compacted the sand even more, so all was well. One more layer to go, then on to the next nursery bed.

20/08/2026

Thursday, August 20th. Where has the month gone? And the year.

We carried on with the re-laying of the w**d mat in the nursery. The sand had been leveled and compacted, but critters froliced on it overnight and we had to re-level it. That took a while.

However, we've now got one strip of matting down. It's not wonderfully laid, and we'll have to tighten it on Tuesday, but at least we won't have to re-level the whole lot. There are many creatures living in the bush in the valley below us, watered by the Karapiro Stream and fed by, among others a magnificent flowering cherry tree. On

19/08/2026

Tuesday, 18th August 2026. Some of us went to keep the planting at Parker Park today and some of us continued the job of replacing w**d mat in the nursery.

W leveled and compacted the sand that we had put in, and that proved to be a time-consuming job. Hovered, it's done. On Thursday we'll have smooth out the critter masks and put the new w**d mat down.

There are a lot of critters in our neighbourhood. They left plenty of marks over the weekend.

11/08/2026

Today, 11th August 2026, some of us went to Lola Silcock Park to tidy it up a bit and 2 of us did some more work on the replacement of w**d mat in the nursery. Both jobs went well, though we ran out of sand for the nursery and will need to get more. We tidied up some plumbing too. We buried a functioning pipe and disconnected a nonfunctioning one. The place looks much tidier now.

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Thursday	9am - 12pm

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