There is a very elegant flagpole at the bottom of Elizabeth Street, but oh dear, the surrounding bed is a disgrace and has been since the day the flagpole was installed.
I fail to understand, when there are such beautiful and regularly attended flowerbeds at strategic spots all around our city, why the Elizabeth Street/ Expressway roundabout has a hideous collection of untidy brown shrubs that would only look at home in a desert!
This junction is one of the major entrances to our city centre and is passed through by thousands of vehicles daily, and it presents as an ugly, drab roundabout that certainly does nothing for the graceful flagpole that rises above it.
Come on City Council - or contractors - and direct some of the time, energy and money currently spent on constantly replanting our city flowerbeds towards a colourful refit of that roundabout.
Create a bright floral entry point to our city to replace the poverty-stricken one that gets more unsightly as those terrible shrubs continue to grow. Please!
Maureen Guy, Otumoetai.