The Wildflower Festival held each September at Kings Park Botanical Gardens celebrates the extremely diverse and beautiful flowers found in Western Australia. These unique and amazing plants are mostly found here and nowhere else in the world. Many are fragile and in danger of being lost in the wild as the destruction of native lands is still ongoing.
This year though, even though I went at the beginning of the festival, many of the plants had already flowered. Some of the mature plants in the garden seem to have been victims of the dreadful seven-month summer we had. The nourishing rains arriving too late to revive them.
Even so, those flowers in bloom were as amazing as always. The gardens have been designed into regions, highlighting the array of plant life in the state of Western Australia.
The Southwest region of the state of which Perth is a part of is world renowned for its striking and extraordinary plant life. Many of the plants here always strike me as otherworldly that no matter how many times I see them, I am always left enchanted.
Adding a bit of culture to my visit was sighting a group of aboriginal dancers that were filming in the gardens...
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