Just a half-hour drive south from Dryandra brings you to Narrogin for a morning walk in the Class A reserve of Yilliminning Rock (follow Yilliminning Road east from town for 17.5 kilometres) where spider, rabbit, cowslip and donkey orchids are found in spring (September to November). Venture a little further on Yilliminning Road and you’ll reach Harrismith where you can join the wildflower walk trail at the Oasis Hotel for a stroll through the dryandras, banksias, verticordias, grevilleas, isopogons, petrophiles, eucalyptus and calothamnus. Closer to the town of Narrogin, Foxes Lair Nature Reserve on Narrakine Road, gives you a chance to spot some 300 varieties of wildflowers and over 40 species of birds. Travelling south-east to Tarin Rock Nature Reserve (just to the east of Kukerin) you can encounter leschenaultia, native foxglove, cat’s paw, mallees, honey myrtles and dampiera, Queen of Sheba orchids and one very curious species known as the compass bush – so named because it always grows in the same direction. From here, continue east to overnight in Lake Grace or Lake King, where the vast salt lake landscapes and road verges are filled with a surprising variety of beautiful wildflowers. In early spring, orchids, sundews, hakea, grevillea, tea trees, wax flowers and many species of wattles are in bloom. Mid-spring brings the dampiera and leschenaultia that colour the road verges, and in November, you’re likely to spot verticordias, cyanostegia, adenanthus and lachnostachys. For sunset views over the vast plains of Lake King, take a scenic drive to Roe Hill Lookout.