Barber's Bush
Barber's Bush Management Group
Chairperson: Chris Barber, Phone 354 9945
Residential Coordinators: Beryl & Alan Ragett, Phone 354 6139
 Background
Chay Cotter, a student at the International Pacific College, undertook an Environmental Studies project to encourage the restoration of a local bush remnant through enlisting the help of the Palmerston North City Council, neighbours and local environmental groups. These volunteers will assume the Community management of this remnant in partnership with the Palmerston North City Council and with the support of the Manawatu branch of Forest and Bird.
Activity
2004 See Events for the next working party
 May 15 - Volunteers from the neighbourhood, Forest and Bird, a student on Duke of Edinburgh Awards and IPC Conservation Club members led by Chris Barber, with plants from PNCC, planted up the side of the walkway entrance from La Lena Ave with ground cover natives. They planted some individual natives in gaps in the bush and released the trees planted last year. The group had lots of fun removing Old Man's Beard and passionfruit vines and blackberry from the open site on the right near the entrance way.
July, September and November - Work parties were held to weed around the seedlings and remove known plant pests. Kevin Wells has sprayed and removed further infestations of Tradescantia flumenensis (Wandering jew) and transplanted some natives to fill gaps.
2003
10 August - More weeding including Banana passionfruit. So much Woolly nightshade encouraged enlisting the Horizons' Regional Council Plant Pest officer, Neil Mickleson, to come on 17 August to show everyone how to remove them with large loppers and a special woody poison. Some native transplanting from nearby private property carried out on 23 August and 6 September
 26 July - a good turn out from interested neighbours and a range of members of Forest and Bird. Many attacked the carpet of Tradescantia (Wandering willy) and others started pulling out larger pest weed plants like Woolly Nightshade and Elderberry. One bin and 2 wool bales were filled!
It was sad to see that some valuable native Supplejack vines had been cut near the path.
Photo gallery
2004
15 May 2004 Photographs by Chiemi Kimura
 
2003 Photographs by Chay Cotter
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