Miss spring? Head to Western Australia, where the wildflowers are beginning to bloom as winter transitions to summer.

Now through November Road Trips Gardeners will have the chance to enjoy dazzling blooms as the season sweeps south with carpets of color lighting up the landscape.

Western Australia is home to some 12,000 wildflower species, more than the rest of Australia combined (and, 60 percent of the region’s wildflower species are found no where else in the world).

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(Photo courtesy of Tourism Western Australia)