The “Domesticated” series is not yet finished.
However, we interrupt it, in order to celebrate the notionally-current season whilst it is still current.
As it happens, we have experienced the 2026 southern spring in both the southwest and southeast “corners” of the Australian continent.
In Perth it has been a particularly “big” spring for Anigozanthos manglesii – the Red and Green Kangaroo Paw.
Since November 1960 it has been the officially-proclaimed floral emblem of Western Australia.
Anigozanthos manglesii & other members of its genus are now globally-popular garden plants, but all 12 species grow naturally only in Western Australia’s southwest.
The flowers’ wonderfully-weird appearance is in part because Kangaroo Paws’ preferred pollinators – so-called “honeyeaters” – are birds, not insects.
The pictured examples were part of the most spectacular “riot of ‘roo paws” that I have ever seen in Wireless Hill Park.
Click here to discover more and to see a honeyeater enjoying a mutually-beneficial relationship with a ‘roo paw on Wireless Hill.
Footnote
My apologies for the gap in publishing new posts – the rooster’s overly-long “front page reign” was in large part the byproduct of a bugger of a flu, and an accidentally self-inflected minor injury. They have now both been vanquished.
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