For guidance on planning your revegetation or restoration site (size, shape, species, density of planting) refer to chapters four and five of this site.

Remember: good quality vegetation sites may not need revegetation at all. Appropriate management can encourage natural regeneration.

General Native Vegetation Profile:

Livingstone

Lower slopes Upper slopes
LANDFORM Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum & Red Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of sand, silt, clay & gravel. Yellow solonetzic (mottled-yellow duplex)
LOCATION EXAMPLE O’Briens/Pillagalala Creeks & Livingstone Gully Road
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
+ Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
+ E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
+ creeklines &/or heavier soils
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Acacia genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
# Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

GROUND COVERS #+ Carex spp. Sedge
+ Juncus spp. Rush
#+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
#+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ creek/drainage lines

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

LANDFORM Upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Tumbledown Gum & Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Also granite. Red podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Cheviot Hills
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Eucalyptus dealbata/E. dwyeri Tumbledown Gum/Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx/E. nortonii Long-leaf Box/Silver Bundy
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
# Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
# Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting
GROUND COVERS Aristida spp. Wire Grass
+ Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

+ poorly drained sites