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| Fern Glade. Five years ago this beautiful area in Garber was covered in ivy. Today, it's a a beautiful site of ferns, Big Leaf Maples, and other native plants. |
We had the Luck of
the Irish for our St. Patricks Day monthly habitat restoration workday in
Garber. NO RAIN, early Spring blooms
popping up throughout the park, and the Trilliums are still blooming. Thanks to Mark we continue to make progress
on one of our most aggressive invasive weeds.
He can frequently be seen in the park near Harwood Creek and Horsetail
Meadows carefully pulling Cape ivy off the plants. THANK YOU Mark and all the volunteers who
have chosen to work with Mark on this most important task. Without you Horsetail Meadows would still be a
blanket of Cape Ivy with the growth of the new Horsetails suppressed.
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| California Coast Live Oak. We found many seedlings throughout the park. We have a caging program to save the seedlings from being stomped on or eaten by the deer. |
Our most exciting find was an abundance of seedlings from
Big Leaf Maples to Coast Live Oak. At
the Claremont Ave. Entrance we found hundreds of tiny Big Leaf Maple
seedlings. After much discussion we
decided to weed around the seedlings and cage the entire area off to try to
save these seedlings from being stomped on.
With this abundance of late
Spring rain – and more to come – they have a chance at survival during our dry summer. Even if only a few survive, this TLC to this
beautiful California Native Tree will be worth it.
If you missed the St. Patrick’s Day Workday you will have
another chance - Earth Week in
Garber. This year we decided to
celebrate Earth Day all week long with several Habitat Restoration Days the
week before Earth Day. We hope you will
be able to join us on one or more of these days. We
want to make an assault on the invasive weeds and get a head start on making
Garber as Fire Safe as possible. The
schedule: Wed, April 18 and Thurs, April
19 from 3:00pm-6:00pm. Saturday, April
21 and Sunday, April 22 from 9:30-12:30.
Details to follow soon. Contact
Shelagh garberparkstewards@gmail.com. We hope you can join us in celebrating Earth
Week in Garber.
