We’re helping you learn about the plants in your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.

Today: see how to identify this perennial herb: the berry saltbush!

Premier Peter Malinauskas has been urged to consider the level of community support for your Open, Green Public Adelaide Park Lands before settling on a site to build new police barracks.

A thousand Park Lands supporters “provided cover” last Sunday for one of the threatened sites. Can you see yourself in the video?

There’s bad news, and good news, from Parliament House this week, in the battle to protect your Adelaide Park Lands

If you Love Your Park Lands, like we do, you might occasionally hear criticism from people who have latched onto a Park Lands myth.

This month, we’re MYTH-BUSTING the claim that that your Park Lands were intended to be a military buffer zone.

In 30 minutes this Sunday, show the State Government that you Love Your Park Lands and that you have got them “covered” (symbolically) with your umbrella. All you need to do is show up about 1.00pm, to be part of a huge group photo at 1.30.

Puffer jackets were the order of the day for parents, as junior players took to your Park Lands fields last weekend. APA’s Rhia Daniel braved the chill to give you a feel for one of the morning’s brisk soccer workouts.

It could be August 2023 before you are allowed to return to Elder Park in your Adelaide Park Lands.

Irrigation trenching is expected to be completed by the King’s birthday weekend in June, but it will take some time after that before new turf is bedded in.

Do you want a massive police compound taking away an area of your Park Lands bigger than Adelaide Oval? That is a question that the State Government refuses to ask you.

But you can make your answer known by “providing cover” on Sunday 4 June.

Your Adelaide Park Lands are home to many kinds of plants, but it’s not always easy to identify them.

We’ll help you: one species at a time. Here’s a guide to a plant found alongside the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari. It’s the common reed: Phragmites australis.

You might die wondering if or when your Adelaide Park Lands might get State Heritage listing.

The State Government is certainly in no hurry to deal with it; despite recent moves by both the Greens and the Liberal Party in State Parliament.

A new neighbourhood re-greening group has kicked off with a day of new plantings in Victoria Park / Pakapakathi (Park 16).

Volunteers who Love Your Park Lands have launched “Green Pakapakanthi” with the blessing of the Adelaide City Council, and would welcome your participation.

Do you have an umbrella? Do you Love Your Park Lands? If so, we need you on Sunday 4 June, to provide “cover” for the threatened biodiversity of Golden Wattle Park / Mirnu Wirra (Park 21W).

With hundreds of others, use your umbrella to signal to the State Government that there is community “cover” for Park Lands, and that new Police barracks must go on a non-Park Lands site.

The final cash prize of the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, the People’s Choice Award has been handed out, but many of these inspirational Park Lands artworks are still available, for purchase, for a short time only.