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City Skate Park
When designing the fencing and mural for the City skate park, the artists had their audience in mind. Firstly, the work had to appeal to the skaters and secondly, it had to be durable. The combination of sculptural fencing and acrylic murals achieves a harmony with its street and railway surroundings and the works reflect street language and skate culture. The tech-camouflage background refers to the unity and harmony of the skater with street life and deters graffiti.
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Pioneer Women’s Memorial
Elsie Cornish was the well known garden designer, who was approved by the Council in1941 to create the garden for Olga Cohn’s sculpture. Ola Cohn chose a three ton piece of Waikerie limestone from which she carved over a period of eighteen months the timeless figure of woman. On completion of the work she felt compelled to defend her work in representing 'the spirit of womanhood capable of giving birth to a nation' against the criticism she received from the public for her course and unladylike rendition of the sculpted woman figure.
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West Terrace Cemetery
On the south western boundary of the city lies historic West Terrace Cemetery, a place of great sculptural beauty and heritage significance. As old as European settlement, this field of headstones is home to more than 150,000 souls, and provides a fascinating glimpse into South Australian history.
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Veale Gardens
Home to a beautiful garden of roses, the Veale Gardens are located between South Terrace, Greenhill Road, Sir Lewis Cohen Avenue and Peacock Road. With a selection of over 50 different varieties of roses to wander amongst, the two rose beds are a lovely place for a stroll or a picnic.
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Botanic Gardens
The Adelaide Botanic Gardens, located just off the East end of Rundle Street, is a vast, sprawling 51-ha (125-acre) garden, containing plant life from all over Australia as well as our surrounding islands and beyond.
Rose Gardens
While rose gardens can be found across the City, a number of special places are under the spotlight in the rose world. Some of these rose gardens can be found at Veale Gardens, Rymill Park, Pennington Gardens, Brougham Gardens, and the Lady Ester Lipman Gardens.
The 1.5 hectare International Rose Garden on Hackney Road is a State Government initiative and features more than 5000 roses on display in a range of garden styles. Just to the west of this garden is the National Rose Trial Garden, where you can see the roses of the future. Roses of yesteryear can be viewed at the Heritage Rose Gardens on the northern bank of the River Torrens, near the Adelaide Zoo.
Roses are special to Adelaide. Adelaide was the first Capital City in Australia to have a rose named after it and we have more public rose gardens than any other Australian Capital City.
South Australia has half of Australia's 5 million roses under cultivation and, with a rose growing region extending from the Barossa Valley in the north to Willunga in the south, the Fleurieu Peninsula's roses tend to flower longer. Roses are grown for floral displays, perfume, petals, essential oils, vitamin, rose hip, potpourri, rosewood and aromatherapy products.
The Adelaide City Council even uses its own Park Lands Rose Mulch to enrich the rose garden beds throughout the City.
Spring is the ideal time to discover the beauty, variety and number of roses which dot the Adelaide landscape and bring to life City median strips, gardens and Park Lands in a blush of colour.
» Rose Garden Walking Trail (PDF, 283Kb)
