If you want the ultimate wildflower experience you’ll find it in Western Australia, where beautiful and colourful wildflowers of all shapes and sizes bloom in both the arid, sandy interior and the beautiful south-western corner during spring.
Everyone who travels through WA in the spring wants to see fields of wildflowers – those featured in advertisements and calendars. Those fields of flowers do exist, although not everywhere, and in some years they are more spectacular than in others.
The vistas of wildflowers are made up of ephemerals, that is plants such as paper daisies that grow, bloom and die down again in a brief season. When there have been good late summer or early winter rains, the daisies and other flowers carpet the ground, like the carpet of citrus pompom or yellow pompom (Cephalipterum drummondii) shown in our segment.
The good news is that this spring the wildflower displays are the best they’ve been in years, particularly around Geraldton and out towards Mullawa. In fact, this year the wildflowers are even visible from space!
Further information
Our segment was filmed at:
Coalseam Conservation Park, WA
For information on wildflower tours and self-drive trips, visit the WA Tourism Commission website: www.westernaustralia.net
