It’s #AustraliaDay today!

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. It marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.

It’s celebrated with a public holiday, family time, sausage in bread, meat pies, fun and recreation.

Some choose not not celebrate this day given the challenges associated with indigenous rights and the plight of equality for our aboriginal people throughout their lands.

Today from a visual hedonistic day, I’ll feature the #Australian iconic #wattletree. They grow to between 3 and 8 m (10 and 30 ft) in height. My childhood home had a massive one on the nature strip, I remember it fondly.

Each flowering bud is a ball-like structure that is covered by 40 to 100 small flowers that have five tiny petals and long stamens, which give the flower head a fluffy appearance.

These trees flower prolifically from mid year but tease us all year round with small flowering growths.

These 📷 pics are sourced from lawn.com.au to show what a full bloom looks like. They’re one of my favourite iconic #Australian tree… for obvious reasons!!

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #aesthetichedonist #januaryjoy #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #godmustbeabotanist #makesmehappy

It’s #AustraliaDay today!

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. It marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.

It’s celebrated with a public holiday, family time, sausage in bread, meat pies, fun and recreation.

Some choose not not celebrate this day given the challenges associated with #indigenous rights and the plight of equality for our aboriginal people throughout their lands.

Today from a visual hedonistic day, I’ll feature the #Australian iconic #wattletree. They grow to between 3 and 8 m (10 and 30 ft) in height. My childhood home had a massive one on the nature strip, I remember it fondly.

Each flowering bud is a ball-like structure that is covered by 40 to 100 small flowers that have five tiny petals and long stamens, which give the flower head a fluffy appearance.

These trees flower prolifically from mid year but tease us all year round with small flowering growths.

These 📷 pics are sourced from lawn.com.au to show what a full bloom looks like. They’re one of my favourite iconic #Australian tree… for obvious reasons!!

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #aesthetichedonist #januaryjoy #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #godmustbeabotanist #makesmehappy

#Melbournes #bottanicalgardens is host to this newly budding #wattle

This will be teeming with small yellow buds in a week or two.

One of my all time favourites, characteristically Australian and very iconic!

👋 from Melbourne, Australia.

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #wattletree #aesthetichedonist #januaryjoy #narrm #victoria #Australia #godmustbeabotanist #makesmehappy