Wildflower time by TheWanderingCamel
The south-west corner of Western Australia is one of the world's biological "hot-spots" - a place where thousands of plant species occur that are found nowhere else in the world. We're all incredibly aware and proud of our wonderful wildflowers and love to show them off to visitors. There's lots of bush around Perth so, especially if you're here in Spring, get out there and look for yourself. Lots of these flowers are quiet beauties that hide themselves away so you do need to get out of the car and walk into the bush . Some good places to head for are:
Kings Park , with its beautiful views of the city, botanic gardens and hundreds of acres of natural bushland, is Perth's favourite park of all. The annual Wildflower Festival held here in late September showcases wildflowers from all over the state.
Bold Park, in City Beach, is another huge area of natural bush where you will see lots of wildflowers as well as getting terric views over the city and across to Rottnest.
Wireless Hill Parkin Ardross is awash with kangaroo paws and other flowers in Spring. This is a really good place to come to see delicate spider and donkey orchids.
John Forrest National Park - 26 km east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway - with lovely flowers and the Jane Brook running through the park over the huge granite boulders that are such a feature of the Darling Scarp landscape.
You don't need to go to a defined park however, there are pockets of bushland all over Perth and each one of them will have something to offer. The roadsides, freeway and railway embankments often have spectacular plantings of native plants also, some managed and some quite natural.
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