Each season brings a change to the Gardens and even if I'm just passing by at street level I often stop for a few minutes to look down and enjoy the view or take a photo if I have my camera with me. The display of colour on the leaves of the trees in Autumn is simply stunning, the floral displays in Summer are beautiful and a tribute to the gardeners who work on them.
I walk past the Gardens at various times of the day...anytime between early morning and 8pm all year round...and if there is a large amount of misuse and gatherings by "undesirables" (as some would have us believe!) then I can honestly say that I've never witnessed it .
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| Summer in UTG |
On warm days in the Gardens, I see groups of youths playing football, students gathered on the grass socialising or studying, parents with their children running about safely and far from the road, older people sitting on the benches enjoying the sun and people like myself taking an hour out of their busy day to eat their lunch..
The Victorian toilets were closed in 2000. Since then, the Gardens have been allowed to become rundown. What they need is sympathetic restoration not annihilation. Many towns and cities would love to have what we have in our city - a beautiful sunken garden, right in the heart of it. It is Common Good land. This is Aberdeen's heritage and some people want to throw it away, cover it over!
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| Street level design will hide the Belmont Street buildings |
The City Garden Project people seem determined to make us believe that the fate of our city hinges on a park!
I JUST DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!
10 reasons to vote Retain Union Terrace Gardens
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