August 2, 2023
A group of keen volunteers marked National Tree Day on Sunday with a “weeding bee” at Kingaroy’s Carroll Nature Reserve.
The group, made up of local residents and members of Native Plants Queensland, removed wheelbarrows worth of weeds from the area.
Carroll Nature Reserve, in Coral Street, is one of the last remaining pieces of remnant vegetation left in the Kingaroy area.
The block of vine thicket was donated to the former Kingaroy Shire Council by the Carroll family many years ago.
The volunteers on Sunday also planted eight small saplings, propagated by local native plant enthusiast Graham Helmhold.
These consisted of Thorny Yellow-Wood (Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum), DeepYellow-Wood (Rhodosphaera rhodanthema), Yellow Wood (Flindersia xanthoxyla) , Native Olive (Noteleae Microcarpa) and Diamond Leaf Pittosporum (Auranticarpa rhombifolia).
The locations for the new trees, which are also native to the area, were carefully selected and will be monitored and nurtured by the volunteers over coming months.
The group has enjoyed some successes in the area, including establishing several examples of the critically endangered Phebalium distans.
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