New England gardens glow with wattle

By Warren Sheather
Updated August 10 2017 - 1:09pm, first published 12:37pm
Fresh beauty: Acacia diphylla is known as the Wollomombi Wattle and grows around the gorge country, east of Armidale.
Fresh beauty: Acacia diphylla is known as the Wollomombi Wattle and grows around the gorge country, east of Armidale.

Spring is almost upon us and local gardens and bushland are starting to glow as the wattles begin their annual floral extravaganza. Australia is home to nearly 1000 different acacias or wattles.

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