Acacia spectabilis

Oh Margaret, you've cheered me up no end! The Mudgee wattle... that's simply
wonderful. I do hope I get the seed of it I've ordered, and that I'm
succesful with it: just imagine my new chat-up line - 'Would you like to come
round and have a look at my Mudgee?'

I've also discovered this week that my young seedling of A.hamiltoniana,
which I thought had died, is still alive. That will, I think, need some TLC
to help it along. Alive, but hardly thriving.

By coincidence, one customer I visited this morning had her daughter staying
over with her from Australia: near Perth to be precise. It's interesting to
note that, talking about Australian plants she invariably referred to them by
their common names, whereas I was thinking exclusively in terms of their
botanical names. 'We have a lot of tea trees on our land'. 'Er...oh yes,
leptospermums'. And so on.

Another Australian currently thriving & flowering under glass: Prostanthera
nivea. I wonder how big this gets eventually? It's more impressive each year
as it bulks up in size.

Einion
Rhyl, Wales, UK
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