Posted in Garden visits, Gardening, Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Gardening, Nature, Spring, Trees, Victoria Park on May 3, 2021| 1 Comment »
Tulips in Victoria Park in April
As usual I took some general pictures around Cardiff’s Victoria Park when I visited in April for the monthly Lombardy poplar tree following update. I found it was tulip time and the cherry trees were also in blossom. Here are the latest images… (more…)
Posted in Garden visits, Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Nature, Spring, Trees, Victoria Park on March 28, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Everywhere in Victoria Park on my March visit there were crocus growing in the grass – although these were accidentally in the middle of a flower bed
As usual I took some general pictures around Cardiff’s Victoria Park when I visited in March for the monthly Lombardy poplar tree following update. Here are the latest images… (more…)
Posted in Cardiff, Garden visits, Gardening, Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Cardiff, Gardening, Trees, Victoria Park on February 27, 2021| 2 Comments »
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… (more…)
Posted in Nature, tagged Nature, Victoria Park on January 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »
One of the very few flowers in Victoria Park, Cardiff, during these pandemic days
Here are some of the snapshots I took on a recent visit to Victoria Park – it makes you realise what hard work the Parks department usually do to bring colour with seasonal bedding plants. The flower beds are almost bare this year… (more…)
Posted in Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Lombardy poplar, Nature, Trees, Victoria Park on January 10, 2021| 8 Comments »
Part of the new tree I am following – recognise it?
It’s a new year and like many of you I have chosen a different tree to follow after a reasonably successful 2020 with the Persian ironwood in my own back garden.
Although we are still more or less locked down thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, I have resolved to take a walk most days for exercise and choosing a tree to follow in a park at least gets me walking once a month.
This time the park is Victoria Park and going to visit my tree on a frosty but sunny day earned me 4,700 steps there and back on my exercise counter.
Now without further ado, here is the tree… (more…)
Posted in Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Lombardy poplar, Nature, Trees, Victoria Park on September 27, 2020| 2 Comments »
Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) in Victoria Park in September
Recently I had to deliver a magazine to a friend on a street beyond the “far” side of Victoria Park, so decided to enter the gardens by a different entrance from my first visit in July (see here), which had just taken me through the central pathway.
With the Cardiff Council Parks people concentrating only on essentials at the moment, Victoria Park is all trees but no flower beds. But some of these trees are magnificent. (more…)
Posted in Cardiff, Garden visits, Gardening, Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Cardiff, Gardening, Trees, Victoria Park on July 28, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Billy the Seal, a Cardiff character who lived in the pond in Victoria Park’s zoo from 1914 until 1939, when he died and it was discovered he was a she…
Somehow I have been so very busy during my four months working from home that I have had trouble keeping up with my blogging. I have also totally abandoned my initial idea of visiting a different Cardiff park every week. Here I am eventually sharing my pictures from Victoria Park, although I took them in late June.
I managed to clock up 5,500 “steps” walking to the park and back, so hopefully that will give you an idea of how close to home it is. For all that, I have only ever visited it twice before, and then only passing through without a camera. (more…)
