After an attempt at Christmas shopping we left the crowds to it and went to look for three geocaches in East (Andrews) Park. We had to use our best stealth skills to find the tiny magnetic containers hidden on or under park seats, but then we are getting quite good at being stealthy!
The parks in Southampton are really worth a visit - back in the summer when we were out hunting Rhino's on the Go! Rhino's trail we said we would be back for another visit, well today was one of those days.
This information about East (Andrews) Park comes from Southampton City Council's website.
A Green Flag award winning park, East Park has the highest concentration of trees, shrubs, rose beds, herbaceous plants, spring and summer bulbs, bedding, ferns, grasses and bamboos of the Central Parks. It has a wide range of Alpine plants in the 1930’s built rock garden. The planting is typical of the Victorian’s love of plants brought in from all over the empire and beyond. This has been instrumental in the development of public parks across the country.
A riot of colour and I love the building behind.
The wisteria pergola is still green and leafy and it's nearly December!
The Queen's Peace Fountain - with not a great deal of fountain action happening today!
The fountain was completed in 2001 and marks 56 years of peace and the service to the nation by Her Majesty the Queen throughout much of that time.
The rockery garden.
Maybe we'll have a look around one of the other parks another day.
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