Also known as the Everlasting Daisy, the Paper Daisy, is one of Australia’s most joyful and most resilient natives. Come spring, it carpets vast stretches of the Australian countryside in waves of pink, white and golden yellow, a bloom so abundant and so distinctly of this country that it has been celebrated since the first botanical records of Australian flora. What makes it truly special is in its name: everlasting. The papery bracts that surround each flower head hold their shape and colour long after cutting, dried beautifully, lasting in a vase for weeks, returning season after season without complaint.

This month, we speak to Children’s Eye Health and the Paper daisy is the perfect choice for this: it’s a flower that reminds us to look, to really look, at what is in front of us, at what our children see, at the world as it appears through their eyes.