Over the course of three hacks (01 and 21 December 2019 and 15 February 2020) Barrydale volunteers cleared an infestation of silky hakea in Barrydale’s water supply catchment. The cleared infestation covered approximately ½ hectares of high infestation and a surrounding low infestation of approximately 15 hectares. Approximately 700 small trees and 5400 seedlings were cleared.

This is part of the Ten Thousand Trees Challenge, a platform for Invasive Alien Plant Hackers, within iNaturalist.

This visit to these stunning beauties was marred somewhat by the discovery of damaged plants and broken off flowerheads, not something I've seen here on any previous occasion.

(Coincidentally, this visit was shortly after a certain photographer and companions had trespassed on this private property to photograph these plants, taking with them a dog, into a wilderness area where dogs are expressly forbidden.)