We love featuring parkgoers who, in turn, LOVE your Park Lands.

This month, we’re chatting to Tully Haines, who enjoys nothing more than taking photos in your parks, checking out live music and sports outdoors, and hanging out with his pet cats.

Just weeks before State Government-contracted chainsaws are set to start tearing down dozens of mature trees in your Adelaide Park Lands, a Labor-chaired Parliamentary Committee has urged the opposite.

The Committee’s recommendations will be seen as an embarrassment to the State Government as it prepares to attack two sites within your Open Green Public Park Lands.

Members of the Adelaide Archery Club have been practising their sport in Bullrush Park / Warnpangga (Park 10 of your Adelaide Park Lands) for more than 70 years.

Rhia Daniel looks back at the Club’s history, and its plans to expand its facilities, with the help of a City Council grant.

We’re helping you to learn about the plants in your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands, one species at a time.

Today: sticky hop-bush!

Our contributing cultural historian, Dr Noris Ioannou, laments the upcoming demolition of heritage-listed police barracks and historic olive trees in your Park 27.

Dr Ioannou argues that destruction of these landmarks will prevent future South Australians from being able to step back in time and see life through the eyes of those from the past.

Members of the Stolen Generations now have a dedicated space in the city to reflect and connect, with a Place of Reflection opening last month in Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14).

At the centre of the space is a bronze sculpture, created by renowned Ngarrindjerri weaver Aunty Yvonne Koolmatrie and South Australian designer Karl Meyer.

While some fear monsters lurking in the dark, an event organiser says the real ‘monster’ is our growing anxiety around heading outdoors.

Daniel Havey is encouraging people to reconnect with nature after dark, by dancing in costume, in Golden Wattle Park / Mirnu Wirra (Park 21W of your Adelaide Park Lands) on Sunday, October 15.

Humans or animals sometimes create unplanned trails through your Park Lands, simply by walking the shortest route across the landscape.

These "desire lines" are being documented and featured in art, thanks to Adelaide artist and curator Sarah Northcott.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest captures fascinating animal behaviour and breathtaking biodiversity from across the planet.

Now, in a world-first, the Adelaide Botanic Garden’s rainforest conservatory will be the leafy venue for the exhibition, from next week.

We’re helping you to learn about the plants in your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands, one species at a time.

Today: drooping sheoak!

A fledgling ‘pocket forest’ has been planted by a volunteer group in Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16), in collaboration with the City of Adelaide. 

Green Pakapakanthi has planted what’s described as a ‘Miyawaki forest’ near the wetlands at the southern end of the park.

Your Park Lands are a hive of sporting activity throughout the year.

Last weekend, APA’s Rhia Daniel joined the spectators for a one-sided Old Collegians soccer game in Peppermint Park / Wita Wirra (Park 18).