The various species of wattle in the Adelaide Hills form cascading tiers of yellow this time of the year. From Lofty. Click for full size. I have to say that “blooming wattle” sounds like a good insult.
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This here’s the wattle, the emblem of our land.
You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
Amen!
Thus endeth the lesson of everything I know about the wattle. I suppose it’s time to rectify that.
Wattle blossom is good for hay fever, you know. Just not for curing hay fever. But the bees love it.
Still reading up on wattles. After learning they are acacias (doesn’t rhyme with bottle), I ran across this interesting article on the Tree of Ténéré, once considered the most isolated tree in the world.