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It would be nice to use the gardens more effectively. You can imagine many winter uses. If we ever get cold winters again, maybe you could skate on the pond (don't know how it freezes since I've never been in there in the winter). You could do tree lighting around Christmas. Challenge the business and institutional community to decorate them to keep HRM's cost low and then let them compete for the best display. I would think walking through a decorated gardens would be a good fit for its formal setting.

FYI. In your photo, the toppled statue was the work of scumbags. It was 125 years old and vandals tipped it over one night a few weeks back for no reason at all. Real assholes. Can't really blame HRM for that one. Some people just have no sense.