Heliograph · @Heliograph
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CoinOfNote · @CoinOfNote
75 followers · 328 posts · Server historians.social
Following my post on today being Wattle day for the 1st of September / first day of Spring - Thanks to @jhaue for reminding me of the wattle on the Australian $5 note. Here is one from: https://banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/banknotes-in-circulation/five-dollar/
Also for wattle fans, wattle is featured on the W coin from the Great Australian Coin Hunt 3: Photo from: https://www.ramint.gov.au/great-aussie-coin-hunt-3-0
#Numismatics #banknote #CoinCollecting #Banknotes #Money #Wattle #Australia #Spring
#numismatics #banknote #coincollecting #banknotes #money #wattle #australia #spring
CoinOfNote · @CoinOfNote
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The first of September is the start of #Spring in #Australia and celebrated as National #Wattle Day. The best I could do, numismatically, is this 2014 #PNC featuring the Floral Emblems of Australia, of which the national flower, Wattle, is around the outside. #NationalWattleDay #Flowers #Numismatics #Medallion
#spring #australia #wattle #pnc #nationalwattleday #flowers #numismatics #medallion
SallyABL · @SallyABL
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#BotanicalGarden #Wattle #BlueSky #Bush #Eucalyptus #Canberra #Trees #Banksia #Australia #WildOz #NativeOz #BushPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
#silentsunday #botanicalgarden #wattle #bluesky #bush #eucalyptus #canberra #trees #banksia #australia #wildoz #nativeoz #bushphotography #nature #naturephotography #photography
The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
2859 followers · 4916 posts · Server aus.social
#AcaciaSuaveolens (sweet #wattle) is a shrub species endemic to Australia.
Found particularly, the south eastern parts.
I love these pale yellow blooms.
🙌💛
📍- #carnegie #Australia.
#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy
#acaciasuaveolens #wattle #carnegie #australia #urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #mostliveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #FlowersOfMastodon #gardeningau #narrm #victoria #downunder #makesmehappy
Morpheus Being · @MorpheusB
1729 followers · 29556 posts · Server aus.social
On my morning walk today.
Jeremy · @singh_jeremy
188 followers · 6206 posts · Server mastodon.au
You’re just showing off now.
#Bloomscrolling #wattle #Acacia
#bloomscrolling #wattle #acacia
The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
2851 followers · 4892 posts · Server aus.social
A huge #Acacia aka #wattle pre sunrise this morning.
How glorious is that full bloom? A sea of yellow, wow!
Cold last night, car was iced, a low of 1c (34F) but these, like many here in Melbs are hardy and resilient to frost.
🙌💛
#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy
#acacia #wattle #blooming #oakleigh #australia #urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #mostliveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #FlowersOfMastodon #gardeningau #narrm #victoria #downunder #makesmehappy
SallyABL · @SallyABL
417 followers · 35 posts · Server aus.social
Here's a little more - gorgeous fluffy, puffy, golden balls of #Wattle.
#BloomScrolling #Blossom #Acacia #Flowers #Trees #Photography #Nature #Photo
#Trees #Photography #Australia
#wattle #bloomscrolling #blossom #acacia #flowers #trees #photography #nature #photo #australia
SallyABL · @SallyABL
414 followers · 30 posts · Server aus.social
Cootamundra (purple) wattle (Acacia baileyana purpurea)
Stunning purple-grey leaves complementing lush golden yellow flowers. Perfection.
How good is #MotherNature.
#WildOz #NativeOz #Nature
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Trees #Photography #Australia
#Wattle #Acacia #Colours #Joy
#mothernature #wildoz #nativeoz #nature #bloomscrolling #flowers #trees #photography #australia #wattle #acacia #colours #joy
The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
2844 followers · 4878 posts · Server aus.social
#AcaciaSuaveolens (sweet #wattle) is a shrub species endemic to Australia.
Found particularly, the south eastern parts.
I love these pale yellow blooms.
🙌💛
📍- #carnegie #Australia.
#urbanflora #flora #gardening #acacia #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy
#acaciasuaveolens #wattle #carnegie #australia #urbanflora #flora #gardening #acacia #garden #melbourne #mostliveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #FlowersOfMastodon #gardeningau #narrm #victoria #downunder #makesmehappy
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The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
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Can’t quite identify this #Acacia, known affectionately (tho not by allergy sufferers) as #wattle, here downunder.
My car was parked nearby this beauty and now sports a thin film of yellow pollen.
The bursts of bloom are lovely.
🙌💛
#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy
#acacia #wattle #oakleigh #australia #urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #mostliveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #FlowersOfMastodon #gardeningau #narrm #victoria #downunder #makesmehappy
SallyABL · @SallyABL
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Gareth · @liquidparanoia
171 followers · 1396 posts · Server aus.social
Wattle flower. #wattle #flowers #gardening #plants #photography
#wattle #flowers #gardening #plants #photography
The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
2814 followers · 4780 posts · Server aus.social@samhainnight yep, #acacia is the genus of #wattle shrubs and trees, native to Australasia 👏🙌💛👍
The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
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A glorious #wattle tree in #Nottinghill #Australia, photographed just now, in all it’s yellow bloom.
#altext, pic 2.
And a sweet floral scent, pungent as ever!
🙌💛
#urbanflora #flora #gardening #acacia #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy
#wattle #NottingHill #australia #altext #urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #mostliveable #aesthetichedonist #bloomscrolling #gardeningau #narrm #victoria #downunder #makesmehappy #FlowersOfMastodon #acacia
The Streets of Melbourne · @NessaUndreza
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Wattles are out in force and blooming profusely - and right on cue, now in Melbourne.
This tree is quite large and the yellow blossoms, generous. The scent of this thing was pungent.
#Wattle is known for such an impressive attribute, as well as their bursts of yellow, of course.
They’re really something else!
#GreenAndGold 🙌💚💛
#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy
#wattle #greenandgold #hawthorn #australia #urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #mostliveable #aesthetichedonist #FlowersOfMastodon #gardeningau #narrm #victoria #downunder #makesmehappy
Mel Campbell · @incrediblemelk
367 followers · 1269 posts · Server aus.social
#Acacia #Wattle #WattleSeason #MaroondahDam #Maroondah #Healesville #Indigenous #Aboriginal #Etymology
When I visited Maroondah Dam on Friday I learned that despite the media coverage surrounding the proposed renaming of the Maroondah Hospital after the dead queen, ‘Maroondah’ is not a #Woiwurrung word.
In 1881 when the Maroondah Aqueduct was first used, a 77yo colonist named James Dawson campaigned to give the aqueduct, then named after the Watts River, an Aboriginal name. He wrote in a letter to ‘The Argus’, “May I suggest that the aborigines [sic] of Coranderrk should be appealed to, and a local name obtained from them and applied to the proposed reservoir…”
The Watts River is named for an assigned convict worker who managed Yering Station and drowned in the river in 1840. (The ‘Camperdown Chronicle’ reported Watts’s death as a suicide but the signage at the reservoir today suggests it was an accident during flooding.) Nearby Badger Creek is named after Watts’s bloody horse, which got stuck in the muddy creek one time and had to be winched out!
William Barak, then the #Wurundjeri ngurungaeta, was only too happy to point out that the river in Woiwurrung language was called Broong-ku-galk, meaning a rotten log, because there was so much dead timber on the riverbanks. (‘The Argus’ reported this using the spellings “Burngothalk” and “Pumburngalk”.)
Some kind of cultural wires were crossed, however: with the best of intentions, in 1881 or early 1882 Dawson went to Coranderrk where he met with Elders, one of whom told him that the location selected for the water catchment, including the neighbouring mountain, valley and stream, was called “Marroondah” (his spelling).
But they didn’t tell him what it meant or whose language it was: turns out it means “throwing” in Barababaraba (aka Parrapa), a language spoken further north by a people whose neighbours were the Wemba Wemba and Yorta Yorta.
According to historian Ian D Clark, Dawson’s informant at Coranderrk was either Barababaraba man John Terrici or Benjamin ‘Lanky’ Manton, a Wadi Wadi speaker from Swan Hill whose mother was Barababaraba. (One Kulin glossary lists “muruma” as the Wati-Wati word for ‘to throw’.)
#acacia #wattle #wattleseason #maroondahdam #maroondah #healesville #indigenous #aboriginal #etymology #woiwurrung #wurundjeri
oberonsghost · @oberonsghost
194 followers · 1360 posts · Server aus.socialI saw some golden #wattle sprigs for sale at the markets yesterday and I woke up this morning believing it was 1 August.