Harfield Railway Garden
Corridor contribution
- To support planting of primarily locally indigenous vegetation (note: we don't expect the garden to currently be there, but the caretaker is willing to work toward this goal).
- To work on removing alien and invasive species.
- To periodically provide updates on the status of the garden.
- When possible, to share seeds or cuttings from the garden's indigenous plants with other members of our network.
This is garden ID pending in our corridor.
Description
The Prasa owned area that runs next to the tracks from Surrey Park along past Harfield Station and ends at the Kenilworth railway booms. Its about 1km long and I have only just got about half way. I have been gardening here for 20 years and have an increasingly indigenous garden. There are plants however from all over and trees that might be less than ideal - in our early days we just planted whatever we were given. Now more selective we have a number of species from the strandveld plant list. They seem to do well. We are blessed to see some of our plants self seeding.
The soil was terrible to start and in some places virtually just the grey stone that is used along the tracks, but by first planting trees and allowing leaves to start forming a carpet of mulch the soil has improved greatly in these areas.
Registered current species
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