About the corridor
The Kent Street/Hayman Road revegetation project is the Town of Victoria Park’s foremost created urban forest ecological corridor. The project aims to revegetate local provenance endemic plant species via an urban verge which connects Jirdarup Bushland to the Canning River – the Djarlgarra.
Stage 1 commenced in 2021. Stages 1 – 4 of the project added over a half a hectare a year to link over 1.2 km of Urban Ecosystem to establish over 2 hectares. Each stage of the project relies on good site preparation to establish to long-term survival and low maintenance of the project.
Stage 5 commenced in October 2024 adding a further 4,850m2 to the corridor towards the river. Planting is scheduled for June 2025.
All tube stock is grown from local provenance seed and propagation materials. The primary source of the propagation material is Kensington Bushland located at the eastern end of the Kent Street / Hayman Road ecological corridor. Kensington Bushland, (located within the Jirdarup Bushland Precinct) is the Town of Victoria Park’s foremost ecological asset and largest remnant Banksia Woodland. The site contains over 208 endemic plant species and is formally classified as a Threatened Ecological Community.
The key steps within each stage of the project are:
- 12 months of herbicide control commencing with an initial winter /spring (glyphosate / metsulfuron mix) and including follow up spray at 3 to 6 month intervals until mulching the site.
- Mulching the entire site with Aquamor mulch at 100 mm thick.
- Tube stock planting of the entire site in June of every year.
- Replanting the site, 12 months after initial planting with tube stock numbers to replenish plant losses throughout the year.
Weed Control
Any potential Urban Ecosystem sites within an urban setting will vary in soil type, aspect and condition. The soil on the site is Bassendean Sands. Historically this soil is highly disturbed due to road works and urbanisation. The modified natural soils are vulnerable to weed invasion. At the commencement of Stage 5 on Hayman Road the weed mass is largely comprising a mix of both Couch and Kikuyu across the entire area.
The aim of the 12-month weed control program is to remove and/or reduce the weed seed and grass rhizome load within the site and the long term weed maintenance requirements. Integrated Weed Management combines physical, chemical, biological and cultivation practices to implement an effective long-term management of the Town’s ecological corridors.
The downloadable file below shows the wider ecological and cultural links across the Town of Victoria Park.
