The Nature Reserve staff who came to plant, outnumbered the Zandvlei Trust members this year, which was disappointing. Never the less we had a very successful planting. About 150 plants of a variety of species were put into the coastal strip area near Sun Rise Beach and along Baden Powell Drive. This area has huge potential for rehabilitation, when the finances become available.
Margit van Heerden is the Site Manager for this and the other Reserve areas in the "new" Muizenberg East suburban areas.

Zandvlei Trust members and others, often ask why do you have Arbour Day in the middle of June
and not in September like the rest of the country on National Arbour Day?

Very simple really, we live in a winter rainfall area, and the rest of the country is predominately a summer rainfall area. If the plants are to survive the extremely hot, windy, dry summer months they have to have the cold, wet rainfall period to establish the root systems and settle down to growing before the fierce summer conditions set in.
Just a pragmatic solution, with common sense and experience, we understand what works.

The plants being off loaded.

Some of the variety, speccially grown for this area at the Zandvlei Nature Reserve and
also supplied by Neil Major from the Cape Flats Fynbos Nursery.

Contact Neil on 076 473 7095 if you need any Strandveld or Sand Plain Fynbos plants.

Margit planting on a hill next to Baden Powell Drive. 

Taariq compacting around the plant he has put in.

Isgaak Crombie digging a hole for another plant.

David Muller putting up the ZVT banner in the high wind.

From the slopes and planting along the side of Prince George Drive.

Mark digging a hole with Isgaak in the background.

Mckayla, Amanda and Willem Smuts nearby residents came to help plant.

Cassy lifting the small seedings from the tray.                      The small Gladiolus in the plug tray being
Margitt has found a young Gecko.                                       carefully lifted out, so the roots do not break.

A handfull of plugs which will be planted together.           The Gecko.

Mckayla enjoyed planting "the baby plants".

A previous invasive clearing took place, we stacked the dry branches into brush piles.
Steenberg Peak is on the left of the buildings.

Some of the lovely dune vegetation with Chasmanthe aethiopica and
Chrysanthemoides monilifera flowering.

Nearby resident Kevin Jones in dicussion with David and Cassy.

Thank you, to all who came to help today.