Out of MtLawleyShire: Kings Park Wildflowers #1

I finally got to Kings park early this week – on a sunny day that was, sadly, very windy. Many of my photos were spoilt by the wind shifting about flowers and leaves.  But I did get some shots evocative of the beauty of the wildflowers that paints Western Australia’s wild places in the festival held at Kings Park every year.

Because I was so late going this year, many of the flowers were either finished or almost.  But still, there are a few 🙂

I have split the post into individual flowers (this one) and massed flower displays (next one)

The first thing I saw made me laugh with delight – an old rusted out Holden, an iconic car in Australian culture – planted with wildflowers.  Quite delightful.

 

 

I don’t know many of the flower’s names, so shall just post with comments.

Kangaroo paws:

This is the most iconic of the kangaroo paws – the red and green

 

 

 

pink:

these ones:

 

and red!

 

& my favourite – the south-west Kangaroo paw:

 

Banksia:

 

eucalypt flower – it makes gumnuts and was the last left on the tree:

Bottlebrush flowers – the first is a round fluffy, puff-flower-ball at the junction of two small twigs.  Utterly gorgeous.

 

 

I don’t know what these are but I love their delicacy. There’s 2 different types, and they are at the end of their flowering, so I was lucky to get them:

 

 

I call this red fluffballs – they are tiny.

Rare Grevillea – not the best photo, but it was soooo windy.

 

I don’t know what these are, but I like them.  The green ones are like pom-poms.

 

 

the ‘bacon and egg’ flower and – well, I don’t know what it is

 

little white ones

    

A branch of Geraldton wax flowers and a type of little ‘paper’ flower.  They can be dried and will last forever without losing their colour:

 

 

I hope you enjoyed looking at the flowers 🙂

Next post: Kings Park wildflowers en masse