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Sunday, 30 August 2015

Roma Street Parkland, Brisbane

This park was opened in 2001 and so it has the advantage of being designed in a modern way, from scratch. The architecture of bridges and water features is inspired. It brings together building structures and plants in such a harmonious way - I really loved it. The plants are arranged into natural regions  - but I liked the fact that mostly, the plants were planted according to the gardeners' taste and not because they all came from one part of the world.


A wall of water - very noisy. In front of this there was a lush green lawn and in the evening, a big group of young men gathered to play football; bare feet, shirts vs. skins.



The frangipani tree has bullet-like tips to its twigs. it's popular in Australia.





Note the water coming down the steps.

The pink concrete wall is planted but a space for a window is left.


"Dragons" are a feature of the garden - they waddle along comically.


A dragon on a sculptured stone.









Weird trees




Boys from the Grammar School in Brisbane wearing their stylish hats. They walk home through the park, lucky!