Wattle Day.  First day of Spring!! by cruiser

Wattle Day. First day of Spring!!

Wattle (Acacia) is Australia's floral emblem. Wattle day has been celebrated here for over 100 years
Love all these gorgeous wattles A fav
August 31st, 2015  
Super triptych. What a great start to Spring.
August 31st, 2015  
Lovely collage
September 1st, 2015  
Such beautiful blossoms - it looks like Spring!
September 1st, 2015  
Beautiful wattle; that'll do nicely! Nice to see the start of Spring down under when we're just lamenting the end of a not-too-glorious summer!
September 1st, 2015  
Such neat colours.
September 1st, 2015  
@777margo @onewing @seattlite @suklassen @wordpixman @dide
thankyou all for stopping to comment. much appreciated. A bit of a grey day today for the start of Spring but its on its way
September 1st, 2015  
Sam
YAY Spring is here!
September 1st, 2015  
Very patriotic
September 1st, 2015  
Great shots
September 1st, 2015  
Yay! Spring has sprung! Great choice to celebrate this, the yellow is spectacular indeed! Looks like it is warm by you, back here ... cold sunshine
September 1st, 2015  
Lovely Spring shots....I think you are all gloating a wee bit on your approaching summer!! We are first day of autumn & not much summer behind us!!
September 1st, 2015  
Neat collage of this interesting tree.
September 1st, 2015  
Lovely! We have acacia trees here in Arizona but they don't grow anywhere near as tall.
September 2nd, 2015  
Oh, what a lovely sunny triptych!
September 4th, 2015  
Fantastic composition and collage! The trees are beautiful and really are stunning in full bloom!! Wish we had some of them here!! FAV!
September 5th, 2015  
@cimes1 thanks Carole. lovely to hear from you again. Hope all goes well for you next week.
September 6th, 2015  
@gigiflower @pennystot @thistle @ninaganci @happypat @seanna @desertaura @cashew

thanks everyone for your nice comments and favs. glad I am not allergic to the Wattle pollen as its one of my favourite spring blossoms.
September 6th, 2015  
What a beautiful way to showcase this lovely tree! A Fav!
September 6th, 2015  
A great collage of three beautiful pic.`s The middle and right pic. are those of the same tree/flowers ?. The leaves looks so different. The right one looks on a tree we call: Mimosa.
September 6th, 2015  
Great collage and colors,Chris:)
September 7th, 2015  
I like the progressive close up.
September 7th, 2015  
And now we have autumn. I want to heat;)
September 7th, 2015  
Beautiful spring colours. This looks like a Mimosa - we had many planted around Malta but it was found out that they weren't good for those who suffer from asthma or hay fever.
September 7th, 2015  
@veengupta thankyou for your fav Veena. There are many types of Wattle and I love them all
September 9th, 2015  
@gigiflower we have 20c tomorrow!!! and maybe even 24 at the weekend.
September 9th, 2015  
@pyrrhula from Wikipedia - " The genus Acacia previously contained roughly 1,300 species, about 960 of them native to Australia, with the remainder spread around the tropical to warm-temperate regions of both hemispheres, including Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and the Americas (see List of Acacia species). However, in 2005, the genus was divided into five separate genera under the tribe "Acacieae". The genus Acacia (sensu stricto) was retained for the majority of the Australian species and a few in tropical Asia, Madagascar, and Pacific Islands. Most of the species outside Australia, and a small number of Australian species, were reclassified into Vachellia "

Yes, you are right Mimosa is a wattle. Their leaves and flowers differ but the flowers are always little fluffy balls.
September 9th, 2015  
@joemuli thanks for your comment Joey
September 9th, 2015  
@yaorenliu thankyou

@alessandro ha ha now its our time to feel the warmth

@sangwann thankyou for your nice comment. yes you are right, mimosa is a wattle there hare hundreds of different ones. see the bit fro Wiki that I copied above for pyrrhula.

September 9th, 2015  
Wattle is such a fun word to say! Amazing trees and blossoms!
September 9th, 2015  
Very interesting! Must find if any trees in India are from this family.
September 10th, 2015  
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