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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 17/02/2009 : 11:49:40
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The Wattle down the chook yard is starting to flower again.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
 Posted - 17/02/2009 : 12:01:04
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Nit into Wattles MA, but I do prefer that one to the one with a balls on it  They all make you sneeze 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 12:09:23
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I dont have any problems with this one Cheryl.
Plenty of other flowers effect me something terrible,.
That White Butterfly Ginger is a potent one for me.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 12:38:13
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Shame because she is a pretty one too 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 13:02:13
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Our acacias are all flowering now too... a sign that summer is starting to come to an end
Mary-Anne, are you sure that is Acacia auriculiformis and not Acacia concurrens. If it is an acacia that has come up by itself it is most likely concurrens which is endemic to SE Qld and can be like a weed sometimes. A auriculiformis is from around Darwin way and has a wider leaf. Ours here are all A concurrans. A auriculiformis, Acacia mearnsii from down south and A concurrens are all known as Black Wattles
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 13:14:05
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You are probably right Gail I will change the name I know there is a Northern and Southern one so I put the Northern ones name on as I could not remember what it was..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 13:21:30
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There are native wattles here about, along the roadsides but I don't grow any.
My red soil I don't think they would like,too rich and moist.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 13:36:18
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I have not planted any either Gwen it was on the block.
Not a lover of Acacia I have seen too many come down in the winds in Melbourne and they dont last very long shame really as they have such a pretty flower.
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Black Wattle..