"The coming of spring in Australia is golden. it is an old, old love story. The flowering of the wattle.....
The sight of wattle lighting up the land in springtime moved the author D.H.Lawrence, visiting Australia in 1922, to rhapsody. It was, he wrote in his book "Kangaroo", 'as if angels had flown right down out of the softest gold regions of heaven to settle here, in the Australian bush.' " - Tony Wright in the Melbourne Age.