Waxy Currantrhus
on 14th June 2012
These bushes have taken over at Kenilworth. For two reasons:
* firstly the veld is far far too old: at over 50 years it should have burned at least 3 times in that period. This allows the resprouters to survive and grow big after the reseeders have senesced.
* secondly there are no buck (and especially no Eland, but Grysbuck will do) at Kenilworth to chomp them and buck really like this plant, hammering it down to size.
Consequently it was decided to prune these heavily and in some areas (where really really rare species where being outgrown) to poison them just before a planned burn. Unfortunately, the area could not be burned on schedule because of horse problems. So it will have to be burned late next summer, which will knock the regrowth harder than anticipated originally, but the plants should still survive. In the meantime the unsightly piles of slash are lying around, doing no harm ...