foreshore_planting

Foreshore Planting by
Beaumaris Conservation Society in
earlier decades

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Our pages
showing our Annual General
Meeting minutes
and Presidents’ Annual
Reports
occasionally mention some
foreshore
planting undertaken by BCS Inc.
For example, foreshore planting
is mentioned:

in 1957,
there is mention of work to
remove
introduced creepers near the
tennis court, which was at
Burgess Street,

in 1971,
Item H refers to the beginning
of our
replanting of the much-depleted
Banksia integrifolia
plants at Ricketts
Point, and at the Landside
Reserve,

in 1972,
Item 2 refers to planting of
Banksia
integrifolia, and Item 8
mentions the start of the
campaign to discontinue an
obsolete foreshore tennis court
so it could be replanted, which
eventuated in
1976,

in 1974,
and 1975,
planting of Banksia
integrifolia
near Ricketts Point is
mentioned,

in 1976,
in regard to the planting of a
discontinued tennis court site
at Burgess Street with four
individual species
planted there by BCS Inc.
being named,
 

in 1978,
mention of foreshore planting
work,
 

in 1981, the
100 trees referred
to would have been Banksia
integrifolia planted to
replace senile
specimens near the end of
Reserve Road,

in 1983,
the Society expressed its
complete
opposition to removal of
foreshore vegetation for a
bicycle road, and it was
not until 2013
that such a change occurred,
with 2,400 square metres
of foreshore bushland being
lost, mostly to concrete, and

in 1993,
the President’s Report noted the
increased
effort by the municipal council in
planting and weeding on the
Beaumaris
foresehore.

Since 1983, foreshore
planting has been solely undertaken by
Council and its contractors.