Edwardian drinking fountain in Cardiff’s Victoria Park
As I visit my favourite Lombardy poplar in Victoria Park every month for a tree following blog post, I am taking snapshots of everything else in the park on these trips as well. In these Covid times I don’t get out much. Here are my February snaps…
The main path and bandstand
Deserted volleyball courts
Something coming through in the flower beds – tulip?
Pine trunks
Last summer I thought this was a tamarack (Larix laricina) but now I am not so sure…
the tree has wonderful colour…
…which comes from these…
…what are they?
This tree trunk looks a bit like a birch species?
Another tree nearby has these twiggy balls dangling like baubles – I’m not sure if they are dead mistletoe or witches’ brooms
Statue of Billy the Seal
The ice-cream shack
Another dismal flower bed, with just…
…pink primula…
…and yellow primula
This canopy of an Edwardian drinking fountain was restored in the 1980s but the fountain itself has gone…
…a stork on the canopy
Daisy in the flower bed around the canopy
Yellow crocus
Purple crocus
Next time it will be spring and hopefully there will be daffodils…
The Squirrelbasket 
any hope of live music from the bandstand? In these COVID times.
Sadly no…
Maybe one day 🙂