Winter flowering Wattle

[VK3ZL]

Just thought I would like to share a couple of pictures of one of our winter flowering Cootamundra Wattle trees...I have several of these around our country property....This one along with some companions is currently in full spectacular flowering right at our front gate...They always flower during July and have masses of beautiful golden flowers....We have many other Wattle Tree varieties around the property which flower at different times of the year, but the Cootamundra is probably the most beautiful. As we are having cold rainy weather at present the trees are weighed down with water..

Enjoy...Bob..VK3ZL..

[KG4CGC]

Cootamundra sits on the Wattle tree? Merry merry king of the bush is he?

[kc7jty]

very nice, enjoy with a high end Penfolds shiraz.

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[WØTKX]

I wonder what wattle smells like in full bloom like that...

[KG4CGC]

I wonder what wattle smells like in full bloom like that...
Ashram. Guess who's.

[WØTKX]

Uhh, they are a sweet smelling member of the acacia genus, not offal at all...

Used to Xeriscape lately in the states, it would do well in Denver. Evergreen leaves too.

[KG4CGC]

I'm sorry ... the answer we were looking for was: Rachel Maddow. Rachel Maddow.

[suddenseer]

We don't see trees like that here in Ohio Bob. I am glad you folks are finally getting some rain.

[VK3ZL]

I wonder what wattle smells like in full bloom like that...


Probably the closest I can tell, a slight honey smell, however it seems to have a different effect on various people depending on their olfactory senses....We also have Jonquils and Daffodils flowering right now....many people can't tolerate the smell of Jonquils inside...It doesn't bother me although Jeannie says I couldn't smell a dead possum under my workbench if it was there for 4 weeks in our 40C heat in the summer..:yuck:.

Bob..VK3ZL..

[VK3ZL]

We don't see trees like that here in Ohio Bob. I am glad you folks are finally getting some rain.

G'day Tim....Jeannie and I would love to live in the Northern Hemisphere but not near winter snow...We both adore the beautiful Autumn colors of maple, ash and all those beautiful deciduous trees across Europe and America...Yes, we do have many beautiful flowering trees here in Australia. many Eucalyptus, Banksia,and hundreds of variety of Bottlebrush, Grevilia among many more flowering bushes....Western Australia is the real home of spectacular wildflowers most bloom in the desert after rainfall....

Australian bush is not particularly pretty in the general sense being mostly evergreen Eucalyptus forest which is a monotonous grey green, but on closer inspection of the undergrowth there is always colorful magic to be found in all the native shrubs, ferns and bushes..Most of the Australian green belt is coastal forest generally no more than 100 kilometers wide before gradually opening out to vast grassland then into harsher desert....Water is a scarce commodity in this country and long drought is common...Further North up the East Coast of the country it gradually changes into lush green sub and tropical Rain Forest through VK4 and across much of the top of the continent..The West Coast has some green forests in the South but as you travel North the country reverts back to fairly dry desert...

Bob..VK3ZL..