Continuing to another part of the Roma Street Parklands after the mysterious and misty fern gully, the Spectacle Garden is a blaze of colour, shape and form. The paths wind round through the beds of annuals and over in the corner I spot a scarecrow protecting a small herb and veggie patch.
I love the attention to detail. Notice how the wall is colour coördinated to compliment the bromeliad flower.
This water dragon stayed so still I thought he was a sculpture, until he turned his head to look at me.
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Thanks Gilly (Lucid Gypsy) for nominating me. I’m enjoying splitting my Parklands day-out into smaller posts. Normally I would do one big post with lots of photos. Maybe this way is better for my followers, especially when time is limited, so many blogs to visit out there in cyberspace…
Today I would like to invite Gerrie (Canberra’s green spaces) to join in this challenge. Gerrie lives in Canberra, Australia’s capital city, a beautiful city with lots of gardens and parks that she delights in showing us. So I think it will be a pleasure to see her daily nature photos. Hope you have the time to fit it in Gerrie.
gypsy life 
The topiary maze garden combination is great – no wonder that big lizard likes to hang out there!
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I have a couple of bushes I keep in a round ball shape. Topiary is time consuming.
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Roma St parklands were a real discovery when I had a long bus-wait. Not many bus stations offer such proximous pleasure. Thanks for the reminder with your lovely photos.
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Love the Dragon.. and I spied a little scare-crow in the bushes too 🙂 🙂
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Isaw so many of the dragons, they were not at all frightened of all the people walking by.
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Glorious, Pauline!
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Thanks Sue
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Great pictures ! love the water dragon !
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I saw quite a lot of them wandering around and could get quite close to them.
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I think they are used to getting photographed, we have seen lots of them during our travels, the birds however….the smaller they are the more difficult it is to take a picture of them !
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Birds can fly away so quickly too.
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In Arizona we tried to photograph hummingbirds…..:D:D:D
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Did you manage to capture them?
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a few yes !
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What a lovely spot. Love the topiary maze.
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I can’t help admiring topiary gardens, they are so labour intensive. Love the dragon, I imagine he eats insect pests. I wonder which came first with the pink wall and bromeliad, it’s perfect placing 🙂
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I think they did the wall at the time of planting as there is a whole bed of those broms.
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Lovely post. I thought the water dragon was a sculpture too.
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So gorgeous and I love the Lizzie. 😃
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Gorgeous park, and images. I thought that was an iguana. I’ll have to look up a Water Dragon to see what the differences are.
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Gorgeous.
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Thank you
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Oh I love that big-ol lizard!
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I knew you would Cindy
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