“Excuse me,” she says, her husband filming the interaction on his phone, “where’s the gardens?” Macdonald, a constant screen presence in recent years as host of the ABC’s Q+A program and a presenter on Ten’s recently axed The Project, often jogs through this park. He knows she means the Wistaria Gardens filled with cherry blossoms, violas, marigolds and petunias. These gardens, established in 1906 by the superintendent of the unfortunately named Parramatta Hospital for the Insane using wisteria cuttings from his trip to Japan, are oddly not included on the park signposts around here.