Jane Frost (Jane Grows Garden Rooms) writes about the Brisbane Wattle Bush. I don’t know anything about wattles except I’ll recognise it if I see it flowering. The flowers are little yellow balls — we like to say golden — and the green leaves have a silvery tinge to them.

It’s Australia’s national flower. It symbolises unity. Green and gold are our national colours. You’ll see all our Olympians proudly wearing them.

When my daughter returned home from many years overseas, we greeted her with a sprig of wattle picked from a tree on our way to the airport. It’s unmistakably Australian. I remember her happy tears as she accepted it. I wonder if she remembers.