As Australia ushers in Spring, the annual Kings Park Wildflower Festival will be held during the month of September 2013 in the inner-city Kings Park and Botanic Gardens in Perth, Western Australia with more than 1,700 wildflower species marking the Festival’s 50 years of Flower Power.
Events and activities will be planned with live music on Sundays. Some highlights include:
- free concerts by James Morrison and The Motown Experience, and Tinpan Orange
- the Fantastic Faraway Festival for children
- the first ever ‘Turf Tattoo’ – the green lawn of Kings Park is for the first time allowed to be painted with designs of wildflower art
- a ‘50 years of Flower Power’ outdoor exhibition
- a ‘Swing into Spring’ dance party
- guided walks and talks.
Enjoy the wildflower walks, art exhibitions and more. Children will be entertained by the Adorable Florables characters.
Twenty horticulturists and eight volunteers spent around 3,600 hours planting and preparing the floral displays. Around 20,000 additional wildflowers have been planted in Kings Park to bloom during the festival. You can even take home some of the 20,000 native plants that will be on sale at the Friends of Kings Park native plant sale which are otherwise not commercially available.
And if you would like to explore more of Western Australia’s wildflowers, take a self-drive holiday. There are eleven Wildflower Trails to choose from which offer a unique collection of species over vastly diverse landscapes. Click here for more information.
Well, as Robin Williams said “Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘let’s party!’
