Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's about this time of year I can feel what my Irish grandmother used to call "a bout of whimsy" (she wasn't in favour) coming upon me.

Today is not only the first day of spring but also National Wattle Day. It is 21 years since the golden wattle was declared Australia's official national flower. A new exhibition celebrating the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The coming of spring in Australia is golden. It is an old, old love story. The flowering of the wattle. The wattle has been the annual ...

A golden wattle plant in bloom in Australia's Western Desert Horst Mahr / Getty Images Each spring across Australia, its native golden wattle plants (Acacia pycnantha Benth.) burst into bloom in a ...

September 1 is known as Wattle Day, but thanks to a warmer Queensland winter many of the bright yellow blooms have already been and gone. "I saw some wattles blooming in autumn," said Alison Langdon, ...

However, after Jane Franklin arrived in 1837 as the wife of the governor, she fell in love with the wattle flower and, in her energetic way, did something about it. She or her husband came up with the ...

When it is winter here in the Midwest, it is, of course, summer in the southern hemisphere. On January 26 each year, (which is Australia Day), I think a lot about Australia where I was born. The ...

Last week, Australia’s new logo was revealed: a golden wattle flower that many were quick to point out bears an uncanny resemblance to COVID-19. As Ash Ivory argues, it wasn’t just a design failure, ...