Treasury Gardens — Attraction in Melbourne

The Treasury Gardens, located on the south-eastern edge of the Melbourne Central Business District, are in a great city edge location and are really beautiful, and well manicured and maintained. They are a great peaceful and beautiful place for city workers and Melbournians to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city or to just break up their day or clear their heads with a walk in the sun, or to have a relaxing garden lunch, or just sit and chillax and let time go by. I love looking back at the city from the gardens and just staring at the CBD skyscape. These gardens are just a short walk from Victoria's Parliament House and are overlooked by the old Treasury buildings, and State Offices. The specially landscaped pond and water fountain pond not far from the Treasury Buildings is an really nice spot.

The gardens include large areas of lawn and walking paths lined with beautiful mature trees including Moreton Bay and Port Jackson Fig, Deodar Cedar, English Elm, White Popular, Dutch Elm, River Red Gum and Norfolk Island Pine, just to name a few. You'll often see Pacific Black Ducks, Red Wattle Birds, and Silver Gulls, and at night, you'll see the garden's nocturnal natives including common brushtail possums, grey-headed flying foxes and insect eating bats. The gardens are also a popular spot for wedding photographs so as well as the native animals, you'll often see wedding parties.

When you walk through gardens like the Treasury Gardens you can easily see why Melbourne is considered to be Australia's garden city, and Victoria as the...

About 50 to 100 metres across Spring Street and to the right from the Spring St exit of Parliament Station adjacent to and on the other side of Victorian State Parliament, well pawned and shade from trees of which some are likely to be more than 100 years old or broad enough in trunk to suggest so, and on this occasion perhaps 1000 to 1500 people were gathered as Students on Strike, some Trade Unions, a number of Environmental Groups, in protest for the state and federal Australian governments' evident indolent and criminal neglect of sufficient policy change to meet requirements to reduce carbon dioxide waste levels from poor housekeeping and unsustainable, archaic procedures, to net zero within this decade, the last window available to us to avoid global temperature annual average increase of well above 2 or 3degC.

For other species, our own as yet unborn descendants, and those non-industrialised people of the world, who are the innocent victims of coal and fossil fuel crude oil and gas drug pushers such as ourselves.

Burning anything for an energy source must cease. Before last decade preferably but before 2030...

Gets confused with nearby Fitzroy Gardens. This is named after Old Treasury at the Spring St end of Collins St.

Long avenue of Moreton Bay Figs is the best feature as is the Memorials to Emergency Services & American President John F Kennedy. It is a great place for lunch time walk & extend your walk to the much larger Fitzroy Gardens by crossing the not so busy Landsdowne St. Public toilet is at this end. Gradient slopes but easy enough for everyone.

Being annexed to Victorian political headquarters is going to have its downside- you will occasionally find protesters, rallies & police presence here. Sometimes sections can be cordoned off.

Why 3 star rating? There is so much more potential to develop this park especially over-hauling the insipid, banal, run-of-the mill fountains & same tired tiered falls. C'mon City of Melb - let's have something that puts the stamp of Melb & Victoria or a nod to the First Nation's ppl. Only Carlton Gardens has a Fountain worthy of postcards. Treasury Gardens is part of of Melbourne's history - deserves something special that visitors...