Black Mountain
This is famous because of the old Telecom Tower, then renamed Telstra Tower that forms a symbolic landmark of Canberra.
This is famous because of the old Telecom Tower, then renamed Telstra Tower that forms a symbolic landmark of Canberra.
This is a historic house built in 1927 by Harry Calthorpe in a Spanish Mission style and remains relatively unchanged.
This is one of the three lookout points for Canberra (the other two being Black Mountain and Ainslie Hill), and the one closest to Parliament House.
Not many flowers here, except in some tulips in a garden bed next to the entrance ramp, and a bed of mostly yellow/green flowers near the entrance ramp.
The Floriade display at the entrance sign to the shopping centre features a gnome amongst sheep grazing on 196 square metres of Floriade bulbs and annuals.
The Kambah Community Garden is located near the Kambah District Park which also has remnants of the old Kambah homestead.
Tuggeranong Uniting Church Erindale has four garden beds at the upper end of Comrie Street associated with the Erindale Neighbourhood Centre and the Erindale Neighbourhood Garden.
The garden is planted under a magnificent old Gum Tree in a raised garden bed with 2500 mixed tulip bulbs spaced throughout the garden.
The garden bed at Good Shepherd Community Church is a circular bed divided into eight wedges – four wedges of bulbs and four wedges of annuals.
This special shaped garden bed represents the Celtic Cross that sits high on the spire of the St Mary in the Valley Church.
These pictures were taken around where I live, in the quiet leafy residential suburb of Roseville, close to Chatswood.