Blue purple tree of life9/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The furry red flowers are blooming right now, creating stunning street side displays and attracting all manner of fauna fiending for its sweet nectar. Hashtag suggestion: #notanactualkangaroopaw. Let your parochialism loose by getting a photo looking wistfully at the stunning floral emblem of WA, the red and green kangaroo paw.Hashtag suggestion: #dontlethayfevergetyoudown. There are about 12,000 species of wildflower varieties in WA and the colourful bloom blankets regions around Perth in October and November. So what stunning native flora can you get photos in front of in late spring if you have suddenly joined the anti-jacaranda parade? Let the following list guide you: Once those flowers drop off the jacaranda is just a mess of thin twigs throughout the hottest part of summer. What’s the one thing Australians need more of? Shade. The jacaranda doesn’t care about you or your long term health. In a country built on hard work we openly celebrate a tree that spends most of the year doing nothing. The purple blooms that whip everyone into a frenzy last all of 30 seconds before the flowers fall off and sully the ground below with what can only be described as ‘moist spots’. The trees themselves are all show and no go. People constantly standing in the middle of the road staging dreamy photos and formulating their next #inspirational post would also take its toll. A nice Sunday of naked gardening is off the cards with all those drones buzzing overhead. The horde of social media darlings that descend on Perth’s jacaranda suburbs must irritate residents. They’re a short lived sugar hit of twigs and flowers that Instagram users inject directly into the social media main vein to live, laugh, love before the itch comes back and they move on to their next picture-perfect project. Jacarandas are an arboreal mirror that reflects the ugly state of our digital gratification-obsessed society. ![]()
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