Completed in early 2015, the Kilcoy Community Wetlands project saw various government, regional council and community groups come together to revegetate the area around Yowie Park. Visitors to the park now are greeted with a wide range of flora and fauna as a result of the hard work of Brisbane Valley Kilcoy Landcare and all the other organisations and individuals involved in its restoration.
For more detail on the process undertaken and the groups involved refer to this previous post. Below is a list of the key species used in the project are detailed below:
Overstory trees with smaller numbers of the tallest growers:
- Weeping Bottle Brush (Melaleuca viminalis)
- Willow Bottle Brush (Melaleuca salicina)
- Broad-leaved Paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia)
- Black Tea Tree (melaleuca bracteata)
- Creek Sandpaper Fig (Ficus coronata)
- Maiden’s Wattle (Acacia maidenni)
- Swap Box (Lophostemon suaveolens)
- Swamp Tea Tree (Melaleuca irbyana)
- Poison Peach (Trema tomentosa)
- Water Gum (Tristaniaiopis laurina)
- Large-leaf Hop Bush (Dodonaea triquetra)
- River Oak (casuarina cunninghamia)
- Swap Mahogany (Eucalyptus robusta)
- Coastal Banksia (Banksia integrifolia)
- White Cedar (Melia azedarach)
Understory plants include:
Midyim Berry (Austromyrtus dulcis)
- Blue Flax Lily (dianella caerulea and Dianella brevipedunculata)
- Matrush (Lomandra longifolia and Lomandra hystrix)
- Frogsmouth (Philydrum lanuginosum)
- Thyme Honey Myrtle (Melaleuca thymifolia)
Rushes, sedges and grasses include:
- Common Reed (Phragmites australis)
- Tall Sedge (Carex appressa)
- Soft Twig Rush (Baumea rubiginosa)
- Jointed Twig Rush (Baumea articulata)
- Grey Sedge (Lepironia articulata)
- River Club Rush (Schoenoplectus validus)
- Common Rush (Juncus usitatus)
Acknowledgements:
This project would not have been possible without help from a number of groups.
Considerable planting assistance was provided by the Green Army – with funding from the Australian Green Army program, SEQ Catchments and Conservation Volunteers Australia. Who worked in partnership to assist landholders with the control of environmental weeds, particularly exotic vines such as Cats Slaw creeper & Madeira vine, to improve the health & resilience of the Kilcoy & Sandy creeks.
- Mount Kilcoy State School students who enthusiastically assisted with planting
- BVK Landcare member volunteers
- Somerset Regional Council for funding assistance.
