Renee Doropoulos, Park Exotica (LANDSCAPE 2025)

Boodjamooling is the original name given by the Noongar people to what we now call Hyde Park in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. It was an important camping, hunting and ceremonial site for the Whadjuk Noongar people. The area was part of a series of wetlands, which only a small proportion remain today. A legacy of European colonisation, Boodjamooling was given the name Third Swamp in 1829. In 1897 it was gazetted as a public garden and in 1899, was named Hyde Park after London’s park of the same name. Most of the indigenous tree species, including many Eucalyptus and Melaleuca trees were cleared and replaced with 600 introduced trees, including Pine, Plane, Jacaranda, Moreton Bay Figs, Port Jackson Figs, and Palms. Today only a single Jarrah tree and two Paperbark trees remain of the endemic species.

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