Revegetation of School Wetlands
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Revegetation of wetlands
Here are the list of plants I was thinking of purchasing from Latrobe Uni to plant around the wetlands. I’m open to suggestions.
Edge Plantings
- Plantings at the edge of water and within the first metre or so in the water (to a depth of 20cm)
- Example species include:
- Gregiflorus,
- australis,
- amabilis,
- pauciflorus,
- pallidus
- Cyperus spp. (appressa, fasicularis, Lucidus and tereticaulis)
Middle Plantings
- Middle plantings my help to reduce the growth of more invasive species such as Juncus and Carex
- Floating plants and submerged plants include:
- Curly pond weed Potamongeton crispus submerged (only after turbidity settles in the future)
- Azolla rubra – float (I will remove this to use as mulch when necessary)
- Floating pondweed potamogeton cheesemanii
- Water ribbon – cycnogeton procerum (bush tucker)
Riparian Plantings
- Appropriate riparian wetland species ensure that there is little space for any phragmites seeds to blow over and germinate from the creek.
- Some species could include
- Swamp everlasting daisy (CE) xerochrysum palustre 40cmxspread butterfly and native bee. V.rare in Melb (Gisborne, roxberg park, lower plenty)
- Matted flax lily (endangered) Dianella amoena
- Curly sedge (endangered) Carex tasmanica
- Swamp wallaby grass Amphibromus nervosus (plump SWG is En) inund 5cm