A Mid-Summer Wander Through The Spectacle Garden at the Roma Street Park...

Sounds and looks like a wonderful day out BB.I can imagine the delight your grandchildren had whilst walking around...
Especially liked the water feature areas.

I've been taking my grandchildren there for nearly 15 years now, ever since they were little children. It became a bit of a tradition that whenever I visited them, we would all go to the Parklands.

The eldest doesn't come with me any more, as she's now an adult and often working when I visit, but the ones in their late teens still like to visit the place with me.

Wow! 11Hectares in the city centre. How lovely. In Canada they call their Geese ‘Cobra Chickens’. I think Bin Chickens is just as good and descriptive a nickname. Lovely park Bernie, and it was so good to see some warm sunshine. It’s been a cold winter here so far, and a gloomy one.

I can feel the heat and boy we could do with it here.
I love the fact that lizards are so comfortable they are out and basking. Equally well done to the humans for not being scared of them.

lovely plants to enjoy too.

Beautiful park B.B and I wish I was stood in the sunshine there! Too cold here!

An interesting blog, thanks for sharing your visit to the park.

Thanks CottageKaren, Seaburngirl, Rose and Hywel.

CottageKaren, I googled 'Cobra Chickens' and I can see why they were given that name. Videos showed how aggressive they can be. I guess any animal can be aggressive though when they feel threatened.

Our 'Bin Chickens' never get aggressive, but they are incredibly annoying and messy when they're rifling through garbage!

Seaburngirl, those lizards are very comfortable in the parklands and don't really get concerned when the humans walk by! They are used to us.

Rose, loads of sunshine here at the moment and it's fierce!

Always glad to highlight wonderful green spaces Hywel.

What a lovely place to go for stroll; so much variety of different vegetation and interesting features.
Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures BushBernie.

Thanks Klahanie. I love visiting and then sharing our public garden spaces.

Yes, Thank You. It looks a fabulous place. Nice to see the sun & flowers etc. & to remember that summer will come here too, one day! A cheering blog for us here in UK.

A wonderful day out, BB! I’d have loved to accompany you through those gardens! It's wonderful that there should be such a big open space for plants in the middle of a big, busy city! Some of our cities could sit up & take notice of this wonderful place!

Thanks for showing us some of your pictures of your walk about! :)

Thank you Bernie, I enjoyed the saunter around those beautiful gardens with you. Roll on summer here. It’s been awfully cold.