The bandstand in Victoria park, Cardiff, in June 2021
Once again I took some general views of Victoria Park when I went this month to visit the Lombardy poplar I am following.
April in Cardiff was dry, May was wet and June has been changeable. But it’s good for the garden. What is also good is that our council Parks department staff have been in everyday non-emergency action again. Since last month they have cleared out all the dead tulips and fancy daisies (Bellis perennis ‘Bellissima’?) and the flower beds are ready for summer bedding plants. They will probably be a bit late but everyone here thinks summer is late this year anyway, because of a cold and wet May.
Here are my pictures…
Empty flower beds lie in wait…
…more bare soil…
…and not a flower to be seen – yet!
There is some interest by the tennis and volleyball courts…
…I think this is Cordyline australis, also known as cabbage palm or Torbay palm…
…the flowers were full of bees
A fine specimen – I think a Catalpa or Indian bean tree…
…the large heart-shaped leaves
A lime tree…
…it’s my favourite Tilia, with white-backed leaves
This magnificent tree still intrigues me…
…I still suspect it is a walnut (Juglans), but it may be a wingnut (Pterocarya) of the same general family?
Now the blossom has fallen cherries are forming…
…and so are horse chestnuts
Throughout the Covid pandemic this has been a place to meet…
…and now the splash-pad play area is open again for youngsters – who especially enjoy waiting for this big bucket of water to fill and upend itself all over them!
That’s it for now – see you in July, when maybe those waiting flower beds will have been planted…
The Squirrelbasket 
Lovely close up views of the trees, your horse chestnuts are ahead of ours!
Juliet
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Thanks. I usually don’t notice them until the conkers start falling in autumn.
It’s clearly much milder here down south.
All the best 🙂