RE: Acacia cognata(subporosa)

--- Bracey Tiede <tiede@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Hi KK and all,
> 
> Oops - I meant to say A. cognata.  It's a full sized
> tree to four meters.  I saw
> one at a friend's house and it was droopy
> 
> Cheers,
> Bracey

Bracey,
My experience with this tree is that it is very
beautiful, but a bit more demanding than some of the
other more common Acacias here in northern California.
 It is more frost tender, not recommended outside
Sunset zones 16-24, and seems to prefer more summer
irrigation to do well here.  I planted two 5 gallon
sized trees in Oakland, one with drip irrigation in
the front garden, and one without in a street median,
and the one without never did anything, even with
periodic deep irrigation by means of a deep root pipe
system in summer.  If your garden does get regular
summer irrigation, and you don't get too many hard
freezes in your location, it is  probably safe.  They
seem to do very well in cool summer conditions at
Strybing and here in Berkeley.  It will certainly be
much smaller than 40 feet tall at maturity.   

I have had similar problems with A. podalyrifolia, I
lost mine last year in heavy winds, when the whole
tree(about 15 feet tall), tipped over in a storm. 
Probably makes a good case for planting many Acacias
out as smaller one gallon plants, and really
inspecting for kinked/circling roots.

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