Roma St Parklands

.		BACK .TALLULAS FIRST SCHO0L PHOTO 2001
	, .	Hello! My name is Tallula and I have just turned six years old. In the picture I am waiting for my Uncle Greg to take me to church - he does this every Sunday. I often visit my Grandma and Grandpa at the weekends and they take me to the park to play. My Grandma is OZ_BIRD who owns this web site. She is teaching me the computer. Here are some pictures of when Grandpa took me to the new Roma St. Parklands in Brisbane, and we had fun. Grandpa got very tired tho, as you can see!	Grade I, Brisbane, Queensland

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The new Roma St Parklands is a misty rainforest glade, 6 metre high water cascades, garden walkways and rare plants are among the many features of the grand creation that is Brisbane's Roma Street Parkland. Although not yet finished, the new attraction is already drawing big crowds. By the end of May the number of barbecue sites will have doubled, with new ones near a stand of mature weeping figs and the lawn overlooking the city. A new playground will also be finished within weeks, and a cafe within a month.

Billed as the world's largest sub-tropical garden, the parkland is designed to reflect the plant diversity of southern Queensland from the dryer country of the central coastal belt to the forest and fern gullies of the luxuriance of the north.

But behind the scenes is some clever landscape technology.

The parkland lake has a circular current designed to drift floating debris to a huge skimmer box concealed beneath a boardwalk. Made of reinforced concrete, it holds the equivalent of six Olympic pools. From a fountain inspired by the spring of Spring Hill, water cascades down one of three waterfalls.

Making the city's 24 hour a day park involved bringing in enough soil and fill to cover the Gabba cricket ground to a depth of 6m. A computer controlled complex irrigation system notes how much rain has recently fallen and sprays only where and as much as is appropriate.

In the fern gully area, fine mists regularly drench the exotic north Queensland ferns; and soil sensors monitor moisture content in eight separate park sectors. The irrigation system has 17.5km of control wiring, 3057 irrigation outlets and 3km of water mains. An undisclosed number of security cameras monitors crowds.

Two kilometres of pathways include winding tracks through the "Spectacle Garden". Almost $3.2 million was spent on plants, including 1200 mature trees, more than 100,000 shrubs and 350 palms.
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