Celebrate Spring at the Everlasting Kings Park Festival
The Everlasting Kings Park Festival is now blooming, bringing together spectacular wildflowers, inspiring experiences and unforgettable spring adventures for all ages.
From Friday 18 September to Sunday 4 October, the Everlasting Kings Park Festival returns to celebrate the extraordinary diversity, beauty and resilience of Western Australia's world-famous wildflowers.
Visitors can immerse themselves in over 60 vibrant spring activities, from stunning seasonal garden displays and guided walks to hands-on workshops, artist demonstrations, family-friendly events and school holiday activities. Festival-goers can also gain practical gardening inspiration through the popular Everlasting Ideas program, where expert horticulturists, landscape designers and plant enthusiasts share their knowledge on creating beautiful, resilient gardens suited to Western Australian conditions.
Families are invited to celebrate the return of spring at Everlasting Nature Play Day, a free community event set among the beautiful bushland surrounds of Rio Tinto Naturescape Kings Park. Packed with hands-on activities and outdoor adventures, the day encourages children to explore, create and connect with nature through interactive experiences, cultural storytelling, wildlife encounters, nature crafts and imaginative play.
For those truly passionate about all things green - many Festival experiences also offer a window into the conservation, horticulture and scientific work taking place behind the scenes at Kings Park throughout the year through workshops, walks and talks.
As the Festival draws to a close, visitors can also experience a brand new event - a spectacular grand finale called “Moortabiny: Becoming Family.” The show will combine drones, light and storytelling in a celebration of culture, nature and the Western Australian Botanic Garden within the night sky.
The event reflects the Festival's ongoing evolution and its commitment to finding new ways to inspire and connect visitors with nature, culture and place. That willingness to evolve has been central to the Festival's success for more than 60 years.
Set against the backdrop of Kings Park, which was first set aside as public space in 1830 and became home to the Western Australian Botanic Garden in 1965, the Festival was originally known as the Perth Wildflower Festival. It began as a showcase of native blooms before evolving into a broader celebration of conservation, biodiversity and environmental stewardship. Today, it is known as Kings Park Everlasting Festival, named after Western Australia's iconic everlasting daisies that paint the landscape in vibrant colour each spring.
Behind every display is years of careful planning. Kings Park staff and volunteers spend around three months planting and preparing the Festival gardens, while some seed collection, propagation and growing programs begin up to three years in advance. Long before the first visitors arrive, teams are collecting seed, nurturing seedlings and planning displays designed to showcase Western Australia's rich botanical diversity at its very best.
Because while the displays may only last a few spring weeks, they represent years of care, conservation and cultivation for one of the greatest diversity hotspots in the world.
Learn more about this year's Festival, including workshops, school holiday activities and how to plan your visit here.
