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White Jasmine (Jasminum polyanthum)

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Jasmine provides a very scented and pretty creeper but this needs to be controlled as Jasmine is a serious weed in the Rainforest.

Type of weed: Climber, scrambler or groundcover

Flowering Months: September, October, November

Native of China. A fast growing evergreen climber with small shiny green leaves and white flowers which are pink in bud and sweetly scented. Jasmine spreads by self-layering and occasional setting of seed. It can seriously threaten the rainforest edges of Mt Wilson. This plant has become a big problem in some gardens.

Alert: The flowers can cause allergies in some people.

Don’t confuse with…  Jasmine can be confused with native Wonga Wonga Vine (Pandorea pandorana) before the plant develops the distinctive lobed leaves and before it flowers.

Impact on bushland

Jasmine climbs rapidly into the tree canopy and covers vegetation at all levels, blocking light and restricting the growth and regeneration of native species. Its weight may bring down branches. It is a serious weed of rainforests.

Prevention

  • Keep well pruned

Control

Because of the fine twining stems and vigorous nature of this plant it is hard to eradicate.

  • Dig out or spray December to March.
  • Scrape and paint stems.
  • If the vine has grown up into the canopy of a tree or shrub, cut each of the vine stems about 500 mm above the ground, after scraping and painting above and below the planned cut, to allow the parts in the tree canopy to die. It is important to keep the cut low to allow adequate length of the stems to be reached for re-treatment.

Alternative native plantings

  • Twining Purple Pea (Hardenbergia violacea)
  • Wonga Wonga Vine (Pandorea pandorana)
  • Water Vine (Cissus antarctica)
  • Old Man’s Beard (Clematis aristata) - note: not Clematis cultivars as these can also be environmental weeds.

Artist in Residence Form

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Application Form for The Old School, Mount Wilson Artist in Residence

If your online application form is not submitting, please check the form carefully for messages in red. These messages will specify the omission or error.

• Have your support material file ready to upload. Make sure your file for uploading does not exceed 10MB.
• If you are having any trouble with this application please let us know via

email: judithtribe@gmail.com or phone: 0410632096

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A copy of your application will be sent to you via the email address in your Applicant Details

Applicant Details

Residency Dates

Each residency runs for one month during the period October 2024 to June 2025. Please specify your month/s of preference below.

Please note: it may not be possible to meet all requests.

Referees

Please provide the contact details for two authorities in your field who know your work.

Referee 1

Referee 2

We expect 3 types of uploads

  1. Please upload a current CV, no more than one A4 page
  2. Please upload a residency proposal no more than two A4 pages, including your proposed community engagement activity
  3. Please upload examples of your work
  • For visual artists, photographers, printmakers and textile artists: up to 5 good quality images of recent works including titles/descriptions
  • For video artists, one video up to 10 minutes in duration
  • For musicians and composers: one recording up to 10 minutes
  • For writers: up to two pieces of writing to a maximum of 1,000 words in any genre/s

Support Material

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By submitting this application I declare that all information is correct and that all support material is my original work. I understand that, if I am successful, this material may be used for promotion of The Old School, Mount Wilson Artist in Residence program through Mt Wilson website and print publications.

Application Guidelines

The Old School, Mount Wilson Artist in Residence program provides accommodation and exclusive use of a studio for one month. The program is designed to benefit both emerging and established artists and considers applications from visual artists, writers, photographers, video artists, printmakers, musicians, composers, and textile artists.

The residency is also suitable for two artists collaborating on a project.

Applications will be assessed and selected by a panel consisting of an arts administrator, a curator and a member of the Artist in Residence (AiR) committee. We reserve the right to seek external advice when assessing your application.

Selection Criteria

Successful applicants will be selected on the basis of their written proposal and the sample works submitted, according to the following criteria

  • Quality of work
  • The strength of the proposal
  • Proposed community engagement activity

The panel will also consider:

  • Suitability of the art form for the studio
  • Availability of dates

Support Material:

Submit only pdf, ppt, doc, docx, jpeg, png, mp4 or mov.

  • Please ensure that total file size does not exceed 10MB.
  • Contact details for two referees
  • Current CV (not more than one A4 page)
  • Residency proposal, including your proposed community engagement activity (not more than two A4 pages)
  • Examples of your work
    • For visual artists, photographers, printmakers and textile artists: up to 5 good quality images of recent works including titles/descriptions
    • For video artists, one video up to 15 minutes in duration
    • For musicians and composers: one recording up to 15 minutes
    • For writers: up to two pieces of writing to a maximum of 1,000 words in any genre/s.

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English Ivy (Hedera helix)

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Whilst English ivy (Hedera helix) provides some lovely features and screens in our gardens this is very aggressive when out of control. 

The Dandenong Ranges in Victoria (see video) are similar to Mt Wilson/Mt Irvine with the basalt soil and ornamental gardens and have a similar problem to the mounts with Ivy growing up trees and sometimes enveloping the whole tree.

Ivy is rampant in the village and eradication is difficult.  However, we can all do something to limit the spread of ivy. Ivy flowers and produces fruit when it climbs up a tree and the seeds are then carried into gardens and the bush by birds. English ivy will eventually choke and kill trees, even big ones, both natives and exotics.  To stop it spreading we need to focus on ivy growing on trees.  

Tree Fern Treatment

For tree ferns the task is more complex as the ivy roots grow into the trunk. To kill the ivy the stems must be scraped with a knife and the herbicide applied to the ivy stem wound, being careful to avoid the tree fern trunk. This is best done in the growing season October to end April.

Non Tree Fern Tree Treatment

For other trees the process is much easier.  Just cut the Ivy at the base and the Ivy should die. It is best also clearing about 1 m from the base of the tree.  (see video)

Herbicide

Glyphosate (Roundup) is a herbicide that is used for killing English Ivy. Please note special care must be taken when using Glyphosate. The MWPA accepts no responsibility for the use or application of any chemicals. Always check the labels and Safety Data Sheets for all chemicals and use only as directed. 

Please note that the Blue Mountains Basalt Forest in around Mt Wilson is a ‘Blue Mountains Sensitive Vegetation Community’ so extreme care needs to be taken when controlling weeds in bushland areas. The only weed control methods recommended in sensitive areas are ‘scrape and paint’, ‘cut and paint’ and ‘stem injection’. If in any doubt about how to control weeds on your property consider using an accredited weed control contractor.

Other Usefull references:

Weedwise Weed of the Month - English Ivy

Weedwise - English Ivy - Best Practices

WikiHow - How to kill English Ivy

 

 

 

 

After Emergency Support

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Following all emergencies people are impacted and need support. This can be in the form of psychological or social support. Contact details are available below, but if you need someone to talk to or are feeling anxious or depressed then please contact one of the organisations below.

 

 

Birds in Mt Wilson

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Birds in Mt Wilson/Mt Irvine

 

Australian brush turkey

 

Brown quail

 

Ducks and swans

Australian wood duck

 

Australasian grebe

 

Australasian darter

 

Herons and egrets

White-necked heron

 

Ibises and spoonbills

Straw-necked ibis

 

Masked lapwing

 

Eagles, kites and goshawks

Brown goshawk

Grey goshawk

Wedge-tailed eagle

 

Pigeons and doves

White-headed pigeon

Brown cuckoo dove

Common bronzewing

Brush bronzewing

Crested pigeon

Bar-shouldered dove

Wonga pigeon

 

Cockatoos

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Gang-gang cockatoo

 

Parrots and lorikeets

Galah

Rainbow lorikeet

Australian king parrot

Crimson rosella

Eastern rosella

 

 

Cuckoos

Fan-tailed cuckoo

Shining bronze-cuckoo

Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo

Channel-billed cuckoo

 

Owls

Powerful owl

Southern boobook

Sooty owl

Eastern barn owl

 

Frogmouths and nightjars

Tawny frogmouth

 

Kingfishers

Azure kingfisher

Laughing kookaburra

 

Superb lyrebird

 

Treecreepers

White-throated treecreeper

Red-browed treecreeper

 

Fairy-wrens

Superb fairy-wren

Variegated fairy-wren

 

Pardalotes

Spotted pardalote

 

Scrubwrens, thornbills and gerygones

Pilotbird

Rockwarbler

Yellow-throated scrubwren

White-browed scrubwren

Large-billed scrubwren

Brown gerygone

Brown thornbill

Striated thornbill

 

Honeyeaters

Red wattlebird

Little wattlebird

Bell miner

Lewin’s honeyeater

Yellow-faced honeyeater

White-eared honeyeater

White-naped honeyeater

Crescent honeyeater

New Holland honeyeater

Tawny-crowned honeyeater

Eastern spinebill

Jacky winter

 

Australian robins

Scarlet robin

Red-capped robin

Flame robin

Rose robin

Eastern yellow robin

 

Eastern whipbird

 

Whistlers and allies

Golden whistler

Grey shrike-thrush

Crested shrike-tit

Black-faced monarch

 

Fantails

Grey fantail

Rufous fantail

Willie wagtail

 

Cuckoo-shrikes

Black-faced cuckoo-shrike

 

Currawongs and allies

Grey butcherbird

Pied butcherbird

Pied currawong

Grey currawong

Australian magpie

 

 

Ravens and crows

Australian raven

 

White-winged chough

 

Satin bowerbird

 

Finches

Red-browed finch

 

Mistletoebird

 

Swallows and martins

Welcome swallow

Tree martin

Fairy martin

 

Songlarks

Rufous songlark

Brown songlark

 

Silvereye

 

Bassian thrush

 

Introduced birds

Red-whiskered bulbul

Common blackbird

Common starling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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