Tag: Bradley Line
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The Bradley Sisters and the English Perennial Garden
Being Australians from Sydney, and very “British,” the two Bradley sisters were certainly familiar with English-style perennial gardens and likely had experience maintaining them. Recently, I realized that their well-known method of bushland restoration, the Bradley Method, could have evolved directly from their experience with preventing grass from invading flower beds.
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Blackberry Bradley Line
Late fall seems to find me in a wetland untangling Himalayan Blackberry from Salmonberry. Most recently I was working on maintaining and extending a Bradley Line that protects an area of Salmonberry and Black Twinberry from old-growth Himalayan Blackberry (Rubus armeniacus).
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Marking Future Transplants During the Dry Season
The dry season is a good time to look for sapling trees, shrubs, and small forbs growing in weedy areas or in spots too close to trails and marking them to transplant later when the wet season returns.
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Disposal of Invasive Plants and Other Weeds
For disposal of invasive plants and other weeds, my preference is to compost them in the same general area in which they grew, but sometimes that is not a good option.
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September Himalayan Blackberry
Himalayan Blackberry is one of those invasive weeds whose removal is important, but not urgent. It can be put off for a while, but not forever. September, the end of the dry season, is not my ideal time to work on it, but lacking any urgent tasks in the forest, I was able to get…
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Some Tasks for the Dry Season
Though the dry season is not the best time to be pulling most of the invasive plants, there is still work to be done.
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The Bradley Method of Bushland Regeneration
I thank Luke McGuff (who works at North Beach Park) for telling me about the Bradley Method of “bushland regeneration.” The method is named after two sisters, Eileen and Joan Bradley, who developed a successful method of restoring native vegetation to degraded natural areas in Australia. Their ideas are relevant anywhere, including our backyard forests…