Fairy Village Fitzroy Gardens

The fitzroy gardens is a garden within melbourne located in east melbourne.

Fairy village fitzroy gardens.

The path to fitzroy gardens. Build some physical activity into your working day this walk will reinvigorate. The gardens are one of the major victorian era landscaped gardens in. Already city noises start to fade into the distance.

The gardens themselves are nice but i think we would have been better off heading over to the botanic gardens. There are lots of seats along. One of the greatest attractions for children is situated in the fitzroy gardens ola cohn s fairies tree comprising a series of lovely carvings on the stump of one of the original red gum trees in the fitzroy gardens well over 300 years in age. While the main attraction is cook s cottage an 18th century cottage from england there are lots of beautiful fountains and statues as well as a greenhouse a miniature village and the fairies tree.

Fitzroy gardens are nice to visit but no better than any other park around the city and certainly not worth a special trip to see the model village and fairy tree. The gardens have a long history of over 150 years few other capital cities can boast such a significant garden so close to the city s centre. Fitzroy gardens was named after sir charles augustus fitzroy 1796 1858 governor of new south wales 1846 1851 and governor general of the australian colonies 1851 1855.