Acacia Desert Carpet

Plant in full sun to light shade.

Acacia desert carpet.

1 mature width. We are a wholesale nursery specializing in water efficient plants. It is a dense small to medium sized shrub that usually reaches heights of 0 5 to 3 rarely up to 5 or even 7 meters. Full sun water requirements.

The leathery gray green foliage looks good all year and small yellow puffball flowers. Desert carpet prostrate acacia low growing evergreen ground cover blooms in spring yellow puff balls height 2 spread to 12 drought tolerant heat tolerant use on banks with poor soil. This low growing thornless groundcover is ideal for covering large spaces and providing erosion control. Also acacia redolens follows the james dean principle of growing fast and dieing young.

We do not sell to the general public but you can find our plants at the retail nurseries or wholesale outlets listed above and on the resources tab. Dr q s desert plant cactus food 5 10 9. Acacia redolens desert carpet mature height. Acacia redolens desert carpet prostrate acacia groundcover.

Deep infrequent water fertilizers. Acacia redolens low boy a k a. Prostrate acacia acacia redolens also known as bank catclaw is a fast growing plant native to australia. Small vanilla scented yellow flowers appear in spring but are not very showy.

6 light requirements. Desert carpet mountain states wholesale nursery and low boy san marcos growers are two cultivars with intensely prostrate growth habits. Acacia redolens commonly known as the bank catclaw or the desert carpet is a shrub of the genus acacia and the subgenus plurinerves. Acacia redolens low boy prostrate acacia a low growing shrub to 1 to 2 feet tall by 10 to 15 feet wide with dense habit and much branched with stems covered with narrow 2 to 4 inch long gray green leaves technically phyllodes.

The desert carpet cultivar is a reliably prostrate form of the australian native.