This attractive shrub has a weeping habit with arching pendent branchlets that are covered in blue-green triangular shaped phyllodes. The bright yellow ball-shaped flowers appear in pendant clusters in spring followed by the flattened seed pods.

Hardiness zones 7 to 10

Acacia vestitais naturally found in Australia growing in the central and southern tablelands of New South Wales in dry rocky, moderately fertile soils in gullies or on the slopes in eucalypt forests. It prefers an open sunny position and tolerates drought or high temperatures and frost.

Hairy Wattle is an attractive shrub that is grown for its weeping habit and its flowers. It is planted in parks and gardens as a specimen or as in shrub borders. It can also be trimmed to form an informal hedge and establishes in 3 to 4 years. It is suitable for coastal regions and iscultivated from Queensland to Tasmania. ID 1982

Acacia(a-KAY-see-a) vestita(ves-tç-ta)

Fabaceae (fab-AY-see-ee)
subfamilyMimosoideae
Wattles