Thursday 3 February 2011

Sydney Square, Sydney Living Colour

Sydney Square, between Sydney Town Hall and St Andrews Cathedral, features this floral display which is part of 'Sydney Living Colour'. The theme for these displays throughout the city for Summer 2011 is ‘Live Green’ which focuses on how our lifestyle choices affect the future of our planet. Each display around the city encourages people to adopt sustainable practices. 'Worm Farming' at the front here includes Marigolds, Lavender, Mint, Lettuce and Parsley. 'Community Gardens' seen behind it includes Eggplants, Capsicums, Tomatoes, Silverbeet, Corn, Sunflowers, Chillis, Snowpeas, Pyrethrum, Thyme and Sage. 'Saving Water' further back features a variety of flowers: Dichondra Silver Falls, Celosia Yellow, Salvia Farninacea Blue, Lavender Spanish Eyes and Furcraea Medio-Picta.

15 comments:

  1. whats the colonial building on the left, nice.

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  2. Thank you for visiting me and for your kind comments!

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  3. Lily Riani, the building on the left is the Sydney Town Hall. It was built in 1880 in the Victorian Second Empire architectural style.

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  4. This weekend I am going to be an eco warriors and teach people on recycling during our Waitangi Festival.

    This square is a great place to spend one's lunch time.

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  5. Beautiful floral display and a nice way to educate people about environment!

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    À bientôt****

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  6. This is a beautiful square. Not only are the buildings impressive, but the gardens are also very nice.

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  7. Loved seeing more sights from your lovely part of the world.

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  8. What a very wonderful city it must be !


    Please have a good Thursday.

    daily athens

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  9. Didn't recognise it at first. Looks much better with the flowers. Its quite bare and drab without.

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  10. What a fabulous idea - definitely Living Colour - with a great collection of different plants

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  11. Nice but need to spice it up with more flowers of my favourite - red!

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  12. are they really herbs- great idea Clover ... mmm any connection with her name?

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  13. I think the beds are beginning to look a bit bedraggled .. time to plant the winter crops.

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  14. Peter, I think this is the first year that they've planted vegies and herbs in these planter boxes. Usually it's just brightly coloured flowers.

    Joan, it would have looked better earlier in the season when the sunflowers and lavender were in full bloom but I only just found out about the vegies.

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