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 Garden State.