There’s more than a thousand of these trees in your Adelaide Park Lands, but can you recognise them when you see them?

Summer is the ideal time to notice the spots on the Spotted Gum.

The latest in our ‘Park Poetry’ series is a lyrical reimagining of Adelaide’s first public statue, Venus of Canova, as she arrived on North Terrace in 1892, outside the gates of Government House.

The City of Adelaide is upgrading the surfaces of a pedestrian pathway, and a road within Red Gum Park /Karrawirra (Park 12). But where is “Town Clerk’s Walk”?

A concept design for a new sports building in Park 27B of your Adelaide Park Lands would be twice as large as the building it’s intended to replace.

“Trees for Life” is hoping to renew its popular “Regenerate” program of bushcare in your Adelaide Park Lands in the New Year.

Have you heard someone described as “a silly old coot”?

The tag might be unfair to any older person, but also unfair to these common water birds, even though their strange feet can make them look ridiculous on land.

A Prospect private school has received a green light to renew its lease and licences over part of your northern Park Lands, after a decision not to invite anyone else to lodge Expressions of Interest.

Over the past 15, months, a determined community activist has delivered a stream of questions to Premier, Peter Malinauskas, and the Member for Adelaide, Lucy Hood, in an effort to understand why his Government is targeting your Park Lands for commercial developments.

The “Save Festival Plaza Alliance” is urging Premier Malinauskas “to transform two city precincts in one inspired move that could truly invigorate Adelaide.”

Please do NOT come to our planned volunteer action workshop on 9 December, unless you are ready and willing to work!

What’s the opposite of “Open, Green, Public”? This week, it’s Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16 of your Adelaide Park Lands.

There are ten children’s playgrounds within your Adelaide Park Lands.

Three of them, each named after the early 20th century Lord Mayor, Charles Glover, have inspired this contribution from poet, Alex Robertson. It’s an ode to the playgrounds of your Adelaide Park Lands.

In recent weeks, your eyes might have been drawn to these distinctive yellow blossoms high in the canopy in one or more parts of your Adelaide Park Lands.

If so, you’ve noticed the largest tree in the Grevillea family: the Silky Oak.

Briefly, in other news from your Adelaide Park Lands…. Beach volleyball, Tree Climb, Hutt Road works, Aquatic Centre

Neither the State Government nor the City Council are prepared to let you know how they deal, in secret, with your Adelaide Park Lands.

A Freedom of Information request about the proposed golf course “re-development” in your Park Lands has produced hundreds of blacked-out pages.

The campaign to Save Festival Plaza remains very much alive. Momentum is building to prompt a Government re-think, even if only for the adverse economic impact of current plans to build over an Adelaide heritage icon.