Park 28

Video credits: Script: Sophie Yelland. Narrator: Marion Yelland

English name:  Palmer Gardens

Kaurna name:  Pangki Pangki (a Kaurna tracker and guide who assisted early European settlers)

Features:   wide axial pedestrian pathway (from the 1860's) connecting Kermode St to the Christ Church laneway;  a massive sugar gum tree, probably dating from the 1870's or 80's; and cast iron bollards dating from 1922.

Bounded by:   Palmer Place

Guided Walks

A Park Ambassador takes a Guided Walk through this Park, and the adjacent Brougham Gardens, once per year. See our Guided Walk page for the schedule of Guided Walks.

But don’t wait for the next scheduled Guided Walk. Take your own, self-guided walk at any time, using our Trail Guide. Click or tap on the image below.

See dozens of photos in the Palmer Gardens / Pangki Pangki (Park 28) photo album:

Park 28 was named after South Australian Colonisation Commissioner Colonel George Palmer (1799-1883). The Mid-Murray town of Palmer, just east of the Adelaide Hills region, is also named after the Colonel.

There's a brass plaque on a Victorian-era park bench celebrates a breakthrough by a German-born Adelaide scientist, Albert Koebele, in 1888 with the first biological control of insects that started with a discovery in this Park

Related links:

• Park 28 on Google Maps

• Adelaide City Council's page for “City Squares and formal gardens”