[Tagging] difference between park and garden

[Steve Bennett]

Fwiw, I tag them all "park". Is there any legal difference? It occurs
to me that many gardens have fences and gates and are only open during
certain hours, but I don't know if that's a general property.

Note that most of the parks in central Melbourne are called "garden"
(Flagstaff Gardens, Treasury Gardens, Carlton Gardens, Fitzroy
Gardens), but presumably that's just historical...

Steve

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:13 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4 June 2010 08:39, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:34 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> public parks are usually big open spaces, public gardens are often
>>>> themed and or run by botanical societies etc...
>>>
>>> Using that definition, what would you call the Brisbane City Botanic
>>> Gardens, then? http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:BASE::pc=PC_1368
>>> There are big open spaces...
>>
>> I haven't seen the Botanical Garden in Brisbane, although I should at
>> some point, but this would fall under themed and/or run by botanical
>> societies I would have thought, yes there may be open spaces but the
>> Garden would have various themes running through different sections.
>
> Ok, clear enough: if it is themed or has themed sections, it's a
> public garden, otherwise it's a public park.
>
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