Dear Green Place 4 - Bellahouston Park

Foot and Arch by Ganesh Gohain (2005), in the last of the sunlight for this evening.

Here is a park where I could definitely spend the whole day with my camera. There were so many things I could've blipped; the beautiful views from the top of the hill... the many artworks and garden features (that are new to me and have appeared over the last five or six years I think)... the beautiful proportions of the House for an Art Lover with its herbaceous borders and heathers and the hugest poppies I have ever seen (only one or two out at the moment but I reckon there will be an amazing display due shortly)... the maze with all its reflections and cut-out shadows... the giant rhododendrons... the backlit yellow poppies... the snowboarders mid-turn... Yes, snowboarders... on the dry ski slopes (though there's something surreal about watching snowboarders practising in sunshine and surrounded by summer blooms).

I liked the sunken garden too, which was the basement of the long gone Bellahouston/Dumbreck House. The house was owned by a city merchant and after he died the estate was sold to the City of Glasgow to become parkland. This was in accordance with his wish that 'his fortune which had come from Glasgow should go to Glasgow'. The park opened to the public in 1896.