Discover the beauty of our flowering eucalypts

The Noongar season of Djeran coincides approximately with the calendar months of April and May. The weather changes from hot and dry to cooler temperatures and there is a wind shift from predominantly easterly to south-westerly. Days are shorter with cooler nights and dewy mornings. The perfect time for a guided walk in Kings Park!

Food is abundant with edible plants ripening, and animals such as possums, freshwater fish, frogs and turtles available. Seeds, bulbs and fruits are collected and stored for food. Flowering banksias and eucalypts provide nectar for birds and animals. A signal of the changing season is the rust-coloured pollen appearing on the male sheoak trees (Allocasuarina fraseriana).

At this time of year the mia mia shelters would have been repaired in readiness for the colder and wetter seasons ahead. Typical plant resources used by the Noongar people would be bibool (paperbark), balga (grass tree), koorak (native wisteria) and wollung (running postman). The bibool would be used to provide a waterproof covering, the leaves of the balga as a form of thatch and the koorak and wollung stems as twine.