preliminary design sketches and concepts......
planting proposals (above and opposite) - overall spatial layout, utilising permaculture design concepts, is shown below....
Drawing opposite - some detail on
Zone 0-1 emerging..........
Design and initial plantings (1989 to 1994)
Zones 0 to 5 are:
0. Origin. House and attached structures (glasshouse and shadehouse). Rainwater tanks and garage/shed.
1. Home garden.
2. Orchard.
3. Windbreak/fire-break. Speciality timbers and trial tree plantings. Coppice fuelwood.
4. Trees over pasture and water storage.
5. Forest regeneration.
The Misty Vale arboretum sits within this plan. For the most part it occupies Zone 3.
Photo below- looking NE across the undeveloped site in 1989. The white arrow shows a possible dam site in Zone 4. The new dam, designed to boost the existing storage (at yellow arrow; shown also in airphoto above - see NE corner) was constructed in 2001.
Some of the initial plantings were placed in Tubex® tree-shelters - a rigid cylindrical plastic tube (height 1600mm/diameter 120mm) - shown in photo above. The tubes in the foreground contain E. citriodora, those in the mid-ground Grevillea robusta. Other kinds of tree guards/shelters were used. Growth rates were observed and compared - details here.
Below - a newly planted Eucalypt seedling (E.citriodora). Planted January 1993 (group of 5; see opp). Seed source Wagga Wagga, NSW.
Ronald inspecting Grevillea robusta (Silky Oak) in May 1994, 15 months after planting (protruding from a Tubex® tree-shelter).
The beginnings of an extension to the initial plantings of G. robusta (May 1994).
Plantings 1995 to 2005
