Nature’s Beauty Revealed – Walk & Weed: Bungendore Park, Bedfordale

The Armadale and Gosnells regions are blessed with numerous large bush reserves, many of them cared for by local volunteers.

Help the Bungendore Park Environmental Group eradicate weeds in the park. Retire back to the Environmental Centre for morning tea then join an optional guided walk through Settlers’ Common.

Bungendore Park, covering 498 hectares, is located on the edge of the Darling Scarp approximately 30 km southeast of Perth and approximately 5 km south of central Armadale. It is part of the Wungong Regional Park.

Bungendore Park’s vegetation is typical of the western edge of the Northern Jarrah forest, and generally consists of open Jarrah-Marri forest with smaller areas of Wandoo-Marri woodland on the shallower soils of the western slopes. The park also contains outcrops of granite surrounded by heath with Rock Sheoak in the south-west corner of the park.

351 plant species from 63 families, representing 44% of the species occurring in the Jarrah-Marri forest of the south-west of Western Australia, have been recorded within the park.   This includes two declared rare and two priority flora species.

Meet at Christmas Tree car park  (Dryandra Drive off Albany Highway).

Please wear suitable clothing and footwear and bring water.