Last Sunday (October 7th) a group of keen volunteers put over 50 native plants in the ground at Korimako Corner
including nationally vulnerable Olearia fimbriata and nationally endangered Olearia hectorii. Korimako Corner is located at the Clyde end of the Rail Trail carpark at the corner of SH8 and Springvale Road. It is Haehaeata’s own planting project. It is both a dryland planting experiment and a living herbaria of wild sourced dryland local native plants. The climate is extreme, very hot, cold and exposed; a very tough environment for plants. This former railyard site has extremely difficult soil conditions with underlying ballast, tarseal, coal and rubbish. Volunteers began planting in spring 2016, and further plantings have followed in autumn and spring 2017 - 2018. There are now over 700 plants of 26 species in the ground, wild sourced from local native plants. The planting is not irrigated and last summer a group of very dedicated volunteers hand watered the plants to keep them alive in extremely hot, dry year. We are calling for volunteers to start up a watering roster again. It’s a pleasant job to water a small area once a week. If you’d like to help with this please contact us.
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