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Mornington Peninsula Black Wattle
Acacia mearnsii
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Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Mornington Peninsula Black Wattle - Acacia mearnsii
Black Wattle is the workhorse of southern Australian revegetation, a fast, feathery leaved pioneer that closes over bare ground faster than almost anything else available. Acacia mearnsii carries dark green bipinnate foliage on a broad crown and produces a heavy, honey scented cream flowering in late spring, and its roots fix nitrogen that later plantings draw on. It is specified where a site needs cover and soil repair quickly, with the understanding that it is a nurse tree rather than a permanent one.
Why Black Wattle
Pioneer Speed: Growth of one to two metres a year on reasonable soil makes it the quickest way to get structure into a bare native planting.
Scented Flowering: Dense sprays of pale cream to lemon balls open through October to December and are strongly fragrant on warm evenings.
Nitrogen Fixation: Root nodules build soil nitrogen, measurably lifting the performance of eucalypts and shrubs planted with it.
Ferny Texture: The finely divided bipinnate leaves give a soft, dark, almost fern like canopy quite different from the phyllode wattles.
Site Tolerance: It handles frost, clay, gravel, coastal exposure and roadside compaction with very little assistance.
Ideal Applications
Revegetation Nurse Crop: Interplanted at wide spacing it shelters slower indigenous species and is allowed to senesce out of the canopy after fifteen to twenty years.
Rural Shelterbelt: Rows along a boundary give quick wind reduction for stock, orchards and new house sites.
Habitat Restoration: Flowers, seed and the sugary bark exudate support insects, honeyeaters and sugar gliders on Peninsula bushland blocks.
Erosion Repair: Vigorous fibrous roots bind disturbed batters, dam walls and firebreak edges within a couple of seasons.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 3 to 4m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 6 to 8m
Best Planting Season: Autumn through to early spring, taking advantage of winter rainfall in the southern states.
Soil & Drainage: Almost any soil from sand to clay loam, acid or neutral, as long as it is not permanently waterlogged. No added phosphorus.
Establishment Care: A deep soak every seven to ten days through the first summer is enough, after which it is effectively self sufficient in districts receiving 500mm or more. Mulch to 75mm and keep grass and weeds off the root plate for the first two years, since competition at that stage does more damage than dry weather.
Plant Details
Height: 6 to 15m
Width: 4 to 8m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: South eastern Australia, including Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia
Flower Colour: Pale cream to soft lemon yellow
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
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Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
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- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
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How It Works
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We Supply
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We Deliver
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We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







