Roma Street Parklands Water Dragons.

The Water Dragons were everywhere there was water that makes sense.



Reckon its a Male..



Not worried about us one bit...I went right up to this one
For a close up of its eyeball



This one came for lunch one of the local office workers shared his grapes
At least he did not give the Water dragon any of his Sandwich



Found this one amongst the flowers



I think this one wanted to come home with me or it wanted my grapes.



Get a load of those toenails..

That one with the grape must be a vegan and as far as the toes nails go . need a podiatrist in a bad way .

Great piccies MA , thanks

What is the red belly all about .


On the walk way they look like they are already to pounce and snaps you on the ankles

Ya know how the Male species of most birds or animals have the better colours

They are flamboyant dont you think.. BTW Thanks

Did not see that about the ankles, they would not hurt you..

Cheryl is

Oi put that scrawny rooster of yours on here will ya. I dont have a decent one

Ohh ............

I promised Tessa I would be nice to everyone and that means you too..

This is a rooster

This is a silly ol' chook



She has a hair clip and if you don't believe me well

Thanks I took him for strutting around

Yeah Yeah This is the silly I was after

MA as usual great pics , those annuals are a delight ,so many shapes and colours.
The dragons look good,so many of them .Well done and THANK you.

I wouldn't like one of the running up my leg Great pics though... and they do love grapes ;)

BTW, both water and bearded draons can and will bite (A big one cab take off a person's finger) but aren't likely too unless threatened.

Thanks Gwen glad you like them..

Do they hang around waiting for people to feed them M A

Thanks Gail..


Being right in the big smoke Richard many office workers have their lunch there so I reckon that do.
That one was ever so gentle taking the grape out of this guys hand, it certainly didn't bite the hand that fed it.

Pretty Avatar M A what flower is that

Sorry Richard I have no idea it was at the park yesterday lots of it together in clumps.
Its the pink and white in the middle any ideas..

It's hard to tell what flower it is from that distance and the avatar doesn't show it straight on but did they look like this - Gaura - they come in different colours

more nice piccies ladies, thanks

I've got to say it again - Fantastic pics!!

Thanks Gail that looks like it I will look later. The only thing I did not like about the Parkland was no names on the plants, the two young chappies there did not know lots of names, either did the Volunteers though one of them was very helpful and went back and checked in a book twice he gave me names of plants I did not know, he said he did not know a weed from a flower before he started giving his time here. I told him he was doing very well and by the smile I got back I would say he was very pleased..

Sorry Cheryl and Val didn't see your replies over the page..

Thank you both I am glad you like our warmer type plants..

Gaura is actually a bad weed down south but not here apparently. I've had mine for 3 or 4 yrs now and I haven't had any come up by seed though I have started a couple by cuttings.

Is it, that interesting.. I dont have any but it looked great at the Park in drifts moving with the breezes.

Speaking of cuttings Gail I broke off two pieces of my pink Ruellia macrantha a few months back plonked them in the garden bed with the day lilies found them last week when dividing the daylilies two nice looking plants hidden under all those strappy leaves..

medburygardens wrote:

Do they hang around waiting for people to feed them M A

One of the nurseries in Bris, that has a restaurant attached, has signs up about not feeding the dragons. They all come up and sit under the tables waiting and some are HUGE.

Gail wrote:

Gaura is actually a bad weed down south but not here apparently. I've had mine for 3 or 4 yrs now and I haven't had any come up by seed though I have started a couple by cuttings.

Mine seed into the lawn but they're easily pulled out.

You know its bad enough seeing them feed the native fauna fruit to me that's ok for some fruits.

But when you see parents down the lagoon here give the kids a packet of Macca chips to feed to the moor hens Thats so bad.