The Fairy Tree

It's just 5 minutes walk from the office, and a lovely place for a lunchtime stroll. Fitzroy gardens were first set aside as a reserve in 1848. Now they are rivalled horticulturally only by the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne and include a number of interesting features, such as the conservatory, Captain Cook's family home (transported from Great Ayton, North Yorkshire in 1934) and a model village.

Chief among the delights of the gardens for children is the Fairy Tree, created by the East Melbourne writer Ola Cohn in the years 1931-1934.

You can see fairies, dwarfs, gnomes and native animals in the carving. I like all the animals on this bit.

There's a family sheltering in a cave here.

I wonder what is going on here?

Just click on the pictures to see them bigger in a window of their own.

You can see more of my pictures of the gardens here on Flickr.