The volunteer group, run under the Landcare banner, has been working on rehabilitating Dumaresq Creek for more than 10 years and spokesman Angus Adair said the group envisaged another decade of work ahead.

“Some of our early plantings of casuarinas in Ken Jones Park, just west of the bridge on Markham Street, are four or five metres high now and are looking great,” he said.

“That is very satisfying.”

The group will hold its first working bee for the year on Sunday, at Dumaresq Creek east of Taylor Street and is inviting the community to lend a helping hand. 

“We had a great working bee in this area in October in collaboration with Armidale’s Mental Health organisations in support of Mental Health month,” Mr Adair said.

“Our first working bee this year will finish the planting at the Douglas Street end of the area, on the southern bank.”

The group plans to work with UNE Landcare to extend the plantings along the creek near the Sports Union at the university, west of the Elm Ave bridge.  

Other tasks for the group include preparing the creek at Elizabeth Park where they plan to link earlier plantings at Elizabeth Park and behind St Peter’s Pre-School on Trim Street. 

Anyone wishing to help with the tree-planting is asked to bring their own gloves, hat, long sleeve shirt and trousers, sturdy shoes and sunscreen. 

The group also ask volunteers to bring trowels or other planting implements.

Sunday's working bee will start from 8.30am.