Very often, much more is going on within a single flower than is readily apparent to an observing human’s naked eye.
The deployment of a long or macro lens will often yield a surprise – sometimes lovely, sometimes startling.
If you zoom in on/enlarge the image below you will see two beetles.
They are at/near the top of the photo’s most prominent pistil – the white one, in sharp focus.
For a more “macabre” experience, look at the munching/nectar-sipping young animals that have “invaded” the very heart of two of the three flowers in the featured image, above.
I am 99% certain that the flowers are Geraldton wax – the “hero” species in the wax flower genus.
In addition to Kings Park (one of the world’s great urban parks/botanic gardens) and several other very substantial, quasi-natural reserves, Perth has a host of bush and wetland “pockets”.
Click here to see the locations some that sit within inner suburbia; they are easily accessed via public transport from the CBD.
If you visit – especially in springtime, but not only then – you should take advantage of the fact that Perth is likely “our” planet’s most floristically-diverse substantial city. (certainly, the most floristically-astonishing)