Everlasting Ideas 2025
13 September 2025
Part of the Everlasting Festival 🌸
A day of inspiring discussion in the Western Australian Botanic Garden, with a focus on our iconic WA flora and fauna, the importance of Botanic Gardens and their role in conservation and research and how we all play a role in in keeping our cultivated spaces and natural areas healthy and thriving.
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Everlasting Ideas features horticultural expert Josh Byrne together with Kings Park staff. With a series of keynote talks, this free event will also feature stallholders covering all things gardening, environment and landcare.
Head along to the marquee near the everlasting meadow off Lovekin Drive to hear talks from Sue McDougall, Digby Growns, Josh Byrne, the Dieback Detector Dog handlers, Naturelink Perth and ReWild Perth.
The Kings Park and Botanic Garden team will be at their help desk to answer your native gardening questions all day and will be joined with stands from:
- SERCUL - growing local plants and fertilise-wise programs
- ReWild Perth – advice on how to build eye-catching gardens with local wildlife in mind
- Naturelink Perth – learn how we can work together to conserve WA’s unique biodiversity and integrate nature into our urban areas
- Water Corporation – highlighting waterwise programs and gardening
DPIRD can answer your pest questions and help us learn more about the biosecurity issues we should all be aware of, while the Kings Park Science team will be highlighting some of their incredible research and conservation work and will be joined by the Plants in Space team.
Get creative with the Kings Park Education team. Paint a Wildflower Watercolour masterpiece, make a mini garden and take home your very own nature craft!
Enjoy our container garden bed displays and relax on our picnic benches with a coffee from Fraser's coffee cart.
This event will be held in a marquee at the corner of Lovekin and Forrest Drives, opposite the Yorkas Nyinning Building.
Full program available early September.
This initiative is part of the WA Government’s Kep Katitjin-Gabi Kaadadjan (Waterwise action plan 3) to establish leading waterwise communities for Boorloo (Perth) and Bindjareb (Peel) by 2030.
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Price
- FREE
