Huis Luckhoff Special Garden Patch
© Communitree (None)
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
This garden is located right between the Liesbeek River and Huis Luckhoff (a home for the aged). This garden has been an abandoned patch overgrown with invasive kikuyu grass for many years, while also being used for illegal dumping. With the help of residents from Huis Luckhoff, including Fred, Muriel, and others this plot has been slowly converted into an indigenous garden. With help from tireless neighbourhood greener Gill and supported by Randall, Communitree volunteers have been working hard to plant a variety of ground covers and other pioneering species, before introducing more sensitive fynbos.
At this point (April 2021) the ground covers are well-established and as we go into the rainy winter we are focused on removing some of the ground cover to make place for new species, while also tackling the remaining kikuyo. We hope to be able to establish a mulch walking path (the first version of this has slowly faded away), and to add a bench. With luck we can open up the garden so that people can easily walk through it.
Registered current species
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