From Perth, take the one-and-a-half-hour drive through the Darling Range to Brookton, via the Tonkin and Brookton highways. Your first wildflower stop, at Boyagin Rock, is just a 10 kilometre drive south-west from here. Pack your breakfast or brunch and enjoy a picnic against a beautiful backdrop of orchids, dryandra, drummond’s gum, grevillea, kunzea, hakea, isopogon, petrophile, leucopogon and hibbertia. Or follow the loop trail and explore one of the last remaining preserves of the native flora that once dominated this region of the Wheatbelt. Heading south, via Pingelly, on the Great Southern Highway, you’ll reach one of the world’s flora and fauna hotspots in under an hour – the Dryandra Woodland. It’s the largest remnant of original woodland in Australia's Western Wheatbelt and a haven for more than 100 species of birds, 850 varieties of wildflowers and many rare and endangered native mammals. Take a drive, stroll, cycle or horse ride along Dryandra's many trails, looking out for flora varieties including golden Dryandra, prickly lambertia, purple-tangled Grevillea, pink and lemon rainbows (drosera) and orchids. For a close encounter with the fauna of Dryandra, join a guided spotlight tour at the Barna Mia Animal Sanctuary. Accommodation-wise, you can set up camp in the wandoo forest at the Congelin campsite, book a heritage-listed forestry cottage, or stay in the nearby towns and farm stays.