Succulents are fine past times themselves, precisely they're fifty-fifty improve when surrounded past times companion plants that complement their shapes as well as textures as well as create got similar tillage needs. Based on what I larn asked, it appears that many gardeners are interested inward trees that become good amongst their succulents.
It's no hole-and-corner that I love palo verdes, especially the thornless hybrids 'Desert Museum' as well as 'Sonoran Emerald'. We create got three, as well as I'm happy to meet that they're becoming to a greater extent than available inward our local nurseries.
This post is almost approximately other tree that's nigh as well as love to me: Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea'.
In my recent post almost our front end garden I briefly mentioned that nosotros had planted an Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea' to supercede an unsightly, diseased 'Aristocrat' pear. Today I desire to demo you lot what this Australian native, which goes past times the funny cry of Cootamundra wattle inward its homeland, looks similar equally a mature tree:
Botanical name: Acacia baileyana (and Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea')
Growth: rapid; mature size inward 3-5 years
Exposure: sum sun
Hardiness: 15-20°F
Water: low
Maintenance: rattling trivial precisely takes good to pruning
Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea' tin reseed. The Marina Tree as well as Garden Club inward Marina, CA on the Central Coast says it reseeds "freely EVERYWHERE." In contrast, San Marcos Growers says that "[i]n southern California this species is non known to reseed or hold upwards invasive."
Our tree was grown from seed collected past times a friend of a friend inward Fort Bragg, CA, due north of Mendocino.
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It's no hole-and-corner that I love palo verdes, especially the thornless hybrids 'Desert Museum' as well as 'Sonoran Emerald'. We create got three, as well as I'm happy to meet that they're becoming to a greater extent than available inward our local nurseries.
This post is almost approximately other tree that's nigh as well as love to me: Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea'.
In my recent post almost our front end garden I briefly mentioned that nosotros had planted an Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea' to supercede an unsightly, diseased 'Aristocrat' pear. Today I desire to demo you lot what this Australian native, which goes past times the funny cry of Cootamundra wattle inward its homeland, looks similar equally a mature tree:
The grouping of Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea' inward these photos is inward front end of a doctor's role inward Walnut Creek, non far from the Ruth Bancroft Garden.
You mightiness intend these trees create got been hither for a while, precisely inward this Google Street View photograph from May 2015 they await of late planted.
There are 5 private trees, if I counted correctly, as well as they practise demo approximately variation inward leafage color. H5N1 few of them are especially silver:
I function past times on to hold upwards fascinated past times these leaves:
The grayish-pink panicles that are immediately forming are the flowers that volition opened upwards inward belatedly winter.
What makes Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea' as well as thence special is the coloration of the novel leaves. They emerge inward shades of regal or lavendar as well as plough blueish grayness equally they age. The specimen inward photograph below, taken at John Kuzma's amazing garden inward Portland, OR, is a smashing example:
This differs from the species where the novel leaves are the same color equally the rest, equally seen hither at the Sacramento Zoo:
The sweetly scented flowers are arranged inward showy clusters of golden yellowish pom poms. They are at their peak inward belatedly winter—the photos below were taken inward Feb at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum:
FACTS AND FIGURES
Botanical name: Acacia baileyana (and Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea')
Common name: Cootamundra wattle
Origin: southern New South Wales, Australia
Plant type: evergreen tree
Height as well as spread: 20×20 ft.Growth: rapid; mature size inward 3-5 years
Exposure: sum sun
Hardiness: 15-20°F
Water: low
Maintenance: rattling trivial precisely takes good to pruning
Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea' tin reseed. The Marina Tree as well as Garden Club inward Marina, CA on the Central Coast says it reseeds "freely EVERYWHERE." In contrast, San Marcos Growers says that "[i]n southern California this species is non known to reseed or hold upwards invasive."
Our tree was grown from seed collected past times a friend of a friend inward Fort Bragg, CA, due north of Mendocino.
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| Our Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea', inward the Blue Planet since Dec 2016 |