Author Archives: Suzette

Get out & about to wattle festivals, markets & stalls

Hurstbridge warm trees with yellow scarves

Take part in one of Australia’s four springtime wattle festivals: Wattle Week Festival at Dalwallinu WA), Hurstbridge Wattle Festival (Melbourne Vic.), the Mt Morgan (Qld) Wattle Day Festival and Cootamundra  Wattle Time (NSW). Enjoy a wattle-themed market on Sunday 1 September at the Old Bus Depot Markets, Kingston Canberra, or the weekend wattle stall, ‘Wattle […]

Encourage your local schools to celebrate National Wattle Day!

School house Gallery Cleveland

Encourage your local primary school to have a special assembly for Australia’s National Wattle Day Suggest they decorate their reception area and classrooms with fresh sprigs of flowering wattle your classroom with fresh wattle or paper wattle blossoms  Suggest they decorate their classrooms with wattle art and craft Donate wattles for low-allergy plantings around  the […]

Wattle worn by Australia’s new Governor-General

Our 28th Governor-General, Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC, together with her husband, Simeon and sister wore stunning wattle sprigs this morning at her swearing in at Parliament House, Canberra. Around her neck Her Excellency wears the Governor-General’s wattle blossom-inspired insignia for the Order of Australia. The popularity of this symbol grows stronger […]