In recognition of Wattle Day I'm posting about a plant in my garden.
We had been away from home for a month or so and when we returned the first thing I saw in my garden was the Gold Dust Wattle
Acacia acinacea in full bloom.
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| Gold Dust Wattle Acacia acinacea |
Gold Dust Wattle grows naturally north of Geelong in the Brisbane Ranges National Park but I bought my plant in a nursery and I don't know its provenance. The flowers are balls of yellow, the stems angled and flattened and many of the phyllodes (leaves) have a beak set to one side of the point. My plant is growing next to a driveway in sandy loam but the foliage is quite soft and it can be pruned back without harming the plant. It is about a metre high and I think it will grow a bit higher yet. Apparently they live for several decades.
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| Angled stems and beaked phyllodes |
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| Insect on branchlet |
1 comment:
G'day Lorraine,
How nice to see some A.acinacea in bloom. Not seen much of it here in West Gippsland, but it was well represented on the Heyfield Golf Course - my old stamping ground. Thanks for the memories!
PW
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