National Wattle Day is celebrated on September 1, the first day of spring.
The Orbost Sensory Gardens currently have a couple of varieties out in flower and the Orbost Garden Club is inviting people to wander the gardens and have a look at the two varieties on show.
The traditional, national floral emblem, Acacia Pycnantha (golden wattle) is currently in bloom, this is the third plant that has been attempted to be grown in the gardens following the first two not making it to the flowering stage.
This third plant has now gone on to flower now for the third time.
This annual celebration commemorates the seasonal change by recognising the national floral emblem and all it represents for the Australian people.
National Wattle Day was proclaimed as a national day by the Governor-General of Australia in 1992, following strong advocacy by schoolteacher Maria Hitchcock and ABC radio broadcaster, Ian McNamara.
It is a day for unifying celebration of everything that we love and value about Australia and Australians as symbolised by the beauty, diversity, and resilience of the wattle.
The first Wattle Day was organised on September 1 1910 by the Wattle Day League, in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
Since its official proclamation, National Wattle Day it is growing into a nation-wide celebration for communities big and small.
The golden wattle was proposed as an Australian floral emblem in 1891.
In 1912 the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Andrew Fisher MP, suggested that the wattle be included as a decoration surrounding the Commonwealth Coat of Arms.
There are many ways to celebrate National Wattle Day, go and wander the Sensory Gardens, plant a wattle tree or wearing of a wattle sprig or badge.
