"Fitzroy gardens is a small Park with an area of 26 hectares in the South-Eastern edge of Melbourne's CBD. It received its name in honor of Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor of New South Wales. Today it is one of the main parks of Australia, created in the Victorian era, and, along with other "green Islands", giving Melbourne the right to be called "city of gardens".

In the Park there are several important historical sites in the first place, it is the Cottage of captain cook brought to Australia from England, and built in 1864 brick house James Sinclare, famous gardeners directly involved in creating the Fitzroy gardens. Incidentally, he was also engaged in landscaping Vorontsov palaces in Crimea and the Royal Garden in St. Petersburg, and was awarded the Imperial order of St. Anna from the hands of Nicholas I. Among other buildings in the Park – winter garden, artificial lake, numerous fountains, sculptures, the rotunda and the model village Tudor times.

But, of course, the main decoration of the Park is its amazing trees planted along the many footpaths. According to the architect Clement of Hodgkinson, Fitzroy gardens was supposed to be an open woodland with meandering paths. The first in the Park were planted with fast growing blue eucalyptus and the Australian acacia, to create shelterbelts. Then along footpaths planted elms, which, when viewed from above, form the Union Flag is the national flag of the United Kingdom. In 1880-90-ies of the many eucalyptus trees and elms moved to other parks to free up more space for other trees and extensive lawns and ornamental flower beds.

In Fitzroy gardens you can see the scarred wood, installed a sign with this text: "These scars remained on the trees, when the aboriginal people removed bark to make her canoes, shields, containers for food and water, bags-kangaroo carry children and other items. Please respect this place. It is of great importance for aboriginal tribe wurundjeri, custodians of this land, and is part of the heritage of all Australians".