We all know the nursing profession is a most dignified and necessary part of modern society.
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Also in our garden we can use nursing plants to help get the show on the road.
I tell you what. I know something about wattles - for fast growth they are hard to beat. A local wattle is the way to go to help care for your garden in tough times.
Grab a bunch of Acacia deanei in tubestock. This way the small plant (about 40cm long including root ball), will adapt to your local conditions better than a large plant (cheaper too).
Don’t let your more sensitive plants sizzle and scald in the Dubbo heat or have their body fluids freeze and thaw to smash the tender green cells to pieces in the frost.
Go on, protect the poor things; use a Wattle.
It’s not complicated.
The specialists call it procession, pioneer, or colonial ground reclamation.
Don’t get too fussed on the slang.
Plant a few tube stock in an open space, stand back sharply and watch them grow.
Years ago, a visit to your local doctor’s surgery resembled a call-in to a Wild West sheriff’s office.
All around the walls were ‘Wanted Posters’ of criminal Wattles, dried and stuck to a page that said,
‘Beware, rip out on sight.’ Today we know the real criminal in most cases is the seasonal grass seed.
We’re fortunate the Wattle family don’t sue us for defamation of character.
At the Dubbo Regional Botanic Garden, Elizabeth Park we planted a couple of hundred Wattles with the help of school groups and disability teams.
That was over three years ago and today we have a veritable forest.
The best performer is the Dean’s wattle. It grows a potential six metres by four metres wide.
Do you have a difficult spot, filled with weeds?
Get a few Dean’s Wattle tubes. Shade, shelter and land control.
Coddle your garden through the tough times: the flowers will cheer you along like the smile of that pretty nurse with a roll of bandages.
If you are up near the Botanic Gardens pop on in and have a look at them – they are found in the Oasis Valley at the start of the boardwalk.
Ron Watson