It was a perfect sunny day, so we headed into Kings Park in Perth after paddling on the Avon River. Kings Park is 400 hectares of land (that’s a lot of land) adjacent to the city centre and overlooking the Swan River. It is Kings Park Festival this month and the wild flowers were doing their thing. I dragged the boys all over the place – pay back time. The perfume from the boronia plants was just amazing. It carried almost 100m from their bed of many plantings.
Boronia
The state emblem is the kangaroo paw – one of my favourites.
Why don’t they grow this well in my garden?
They had an area of plants and trees to represent each part of the state, as well as some great example of rare plants. Below is a photo of the amazing eucalyptus macrocarpa – the largest species of eucalyptus. (I think that’s what they said in the blurb).
Eucalyptus macrocarpa – with flower bursting from pod
The flowers are enormous and the foliage is a silver grey, with the huge branches going in all directions.
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- I found a Boab to hug!
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- Lechenaultia billoba – a striking blue flower
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- There were huge patches of paper daisies
PIC gallery 5642, 76, 40 with captions
More lovely flowers – I think they only look this good growing in their own home region. x