With immaculate beaches, hot weather and enormous blue skies, Perth is fast catching up with Melbourne and Sydney for tourist numbers. So where to go? Perth boy Liam Phillips has the answers ...

A variety of native garden beds have been constructed in and around Venema Plaza. Each garden bed features a collection of different native species or a specific habitat type for demonstration ...

In the 2010s, a suburban wetland in Perth's north became a hotspot ... The so-called Secret Garden was actually the site of degraded native wetlands infested with exotic weeds such as morning ...