On Friday the 25th July we had a fabulous time down on the Belubula river at Canowindra.

Sue Johnson’s family planted a beautiful tree she had grown. Thanks to Anne Ward for coming up with the brilliant plan. Sue was very special to the Canowindra Community and anyone who knew her would know how much she loved her native plants. Sue sadly passed away in November last year and the tree is a beautiful reminder of her for us all.

Sue & Will’s property ‘Lowanna’ has been one of our farm depots for the Superb Parrot project mesh over the last few year’s. Anyone who has gone there to collect the mesh for projects would have seen all the work the Johnson’s have put into planting on their farm. There is a beautiful film of the work they have done filmed just a couple of years ago ‘A Shared Existence’

As well as planting this special tree we have also planted out some great little local native grasses and groundcovers that Ash Wright had grown from seed as well as a couple of lovely plants from the Weddin Community Native Nursery

This project is a part of a collaboration with the Canowindra Garden Club and the Canowindra Connections Centre to plant some shade trees around the new table they have had installed.

It is also a trial planting of local native grasses and groundcovers on the bank of the river. So if you see our lovely pink circles on the riverbank please be mindful of them as we are very excited to see how they grow. If they do well it would be so good to extend the planting.

We will be having a few working bee’s to maintain this small area and if you are interested in helping please let us know and we will add you to the Belubula River What’s App group.