October 31, 2008 - I described a visit to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens a while ago... and I mentioned that the rose garden had not come into bloom. Well at the end of October (actually, Halloween) I returned there by myself to quickly to have a look around. These will be the last series of the Botanic Gardens for a while (this is after all not a blog about gardens)... but I have to say that the gardens are one of our favourite places in Adelaide, so please indulge me (and my camera).
The Botanic Gardens can be approached from the Adelaide Zoo side (along Plane Tree Drive) - and one of the best parts about this approach is the grand old (plane) trees.
Who knows how old these majestic trees are - well, I can guess that they didn't pre-date English settlement, so that most probably caps it around 170 years.... Still, they look like they've been here most of those.
The winter leaf litter still remains on the ground. These trees don't always look friendly - but sometimes they cast a somewhat threatening shadow across the park. It was Halloween after all....
Of course, inside the park, things tend towards the nice and bright and cheerful. Looking at some of the other plants that you can find in bloom at this time (late October/November)...
It's not all about the plants, but sometimes about those designs of humankind that catch the eye. Both the new structures (which we saw before)...
And the old...
The good thing about the gardens is that each month of the year there's something different to look at, something more to notice. In that way, they're kind of like children growing up. No sooner do you think you understand them... they go and do something else. It's a path that's always inviting you down, to take you into magical possibilities...
And the next post will be about the rose garden itself.... Hope you'll join me.
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