Plantings 1995 to 2005

The 10 years, 1995 to 2005, saw a number of plantings in the Misty Vale Arboretum. Species included:

Quercus palustris (Pin Oak)

Ulmus parvifolia (Chinese Weeping Elm)

Quercus lusitanica (Lusitanian Oak or Portuguese Oak)

Cupressocyparis leylandii (Leighton Green)

Quercus coccinea (Scarlet Oak)

Acacia melanoxylon (Blackwood)

Fraxinus pennysylvanica (Red Ash)

Eucalyptus maculata (Spotted Gum)

Fraxinus griffithi (Evergreen Ash)

Eucalyptus saligna (Sydney Blue Gum)

How it looked in 2002 is shown in the images below...........................

Fraxinus pennysylvanica. 12 planted January 1999. Seed source: street tree in Canberra (Torrens). Shown here in 2002 growing strongly despite being established in less than optimal conditions (soils shallower and drier than this species generally prefers).

Fraxinus griffithi in 2002, 7 years after planting (15 planted in 1995). Seed source unknown. Suffered a severe setback during the very dry summer of 1998, now well-established and vigorous. Used here as the last row in the western windbreak (behind C. cunninghamiana and interspersed with Acacia melanoxylon).

Looking south across a portion of the arboretum in January 2002. The numbered trees are:

1. Eucalyptus citriodora. Planted January 1993 (5 seedlings). Seed source: Wagga Wagga, NSW.

2. Grevillea robusta. Planted January 1993 (9 established as 2nd row in secondary windbreak). Seed source: Wagga Wagga, NSW.

3. Eucalyptus tereticornis. Existing tree, native to the area (one of the species comprising Bega Dry Grass Forest).

4. Quercus suber. Planted December 1993/January 1994 (35 seedlings established). Seed source: Glenloch Cork Oak Plantation, Canberra. Various tree shelters used. Height increments periodically recorded until end 1996.

5. Casuarina cunninghamiana. Planted January 1993 (10 seedlings established as part of secondary windbreak). Seed source: Bega Valley (Brogo), NSW.

6. Eucalyptus saligna. Part of the southern windbreak (planted summer 1997/1998, 25 seedlings established). Seed source: Kangaroo Valley Provenance

7. Fraxinus griffithi. Part of western windbreak/firebreak (planted 15 April 1994). Seed source unknown.

                                                                           

                                                                         

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Eucalyptus saligna in the southern windbreak, 5 years after planting. Seed source: Kangaroo Valley Provenance. The front row (RHS of photo) is C. cunninghamiana.