Views of the Spectacle Garden at Roma Street Parklands, Brisbane, Australia

These are top photographs Bernieh, thanks for taking the time to go and take them to show us. I did go on Google Earth and see exactly where the location is its amazing how it is all done on, and it looks as though it is on both sides of the river, and as it sweeps around there is even a little speedboat shown.

It's a fabulous place Bobg - I try to visit it whenever I'm down in Brisbane. This parkland covers around 16 hectares in the middle of our capital city. There are in fact 2 parkland areas - this one ... Roma Street Parkland - and the Southbank Parkland which stretches along the Brisbane river for around 17 hectares.

There is a lake and a canal waterway in the middle of the Roma Street Parkland and you can just see some of the canal in this photo - where those tyres of impatiens are floating!

Beautiful wish our canals looked like this

Fantastic shots

Too right Morgana ours are clogged up with weed and old shopping trolleys.

Hello! Do they plant the tyres up and then just launch them in the canal?! Sounds a lovely idea but like Bobq comments they'd not last long in UK... someone would nick them or sink them. Maybe we should plant up the shopping trolleys?!!

Antigone - these tyres are attached to a chain that is anchored at the bottom of the canal and while they do move a far way they won't just float away completely. This canal is in a parkland that is accessible 24 hours a day and so far no-one has attempted to take them or sink them.

Like the idea of the planted up shopping trolleys - would be a much better look!