Coorparoo Finger Gullies

The group covers 3 Parks, Eva Street, Octantis Street and Mars Street Parks, all named after three nearby streets.

Working Bees

Activities are mostly irregular. We do email our group and post on our Facebook site when working bees are schedules

Site Strategy

As the 2 parks we work in, Octantis and Eva, were musty mowed grass parks we are working on spreading mulch around the large trees to protest their root zone and planting in with native indigenous shrubs and ground cover to supply habitat and aid water retention on site and penetration into the soil. Control of encroaching weeds than becomes a priority.

Site History

N4C had already done a lot of riparian planting lower down on this creek at Wembley Park, so it made sense to extend this work to the upper catchment as well. We obtained a grant in 2015 to revegetate a section of the ephemeral creek in the green space between Octantis and Mars Streets.

Eva Street Park is the largest at 1.5ha, Octantis Street Park is 0.88ha. Both these parks were originally mown grass with some weedy patches but also a mixed variety of large trees, mostly Forest Red Gums, Eucalyptus tereticornis, with most of a measured age of 200 plus years. Mars Street Park, 1.27ha, is mostly treed with some understory weeds and garden escapes along the edges. Little work is currently being caried out in this Park.

Planting native shrubs and grasses around the gum trees has saved them from repeated damage that had been occurring when mowing contractors passed by. Nest box installation provides homes for gliders, possums and birds, where trees have not reached the advanced age needed to create hollows.