Victoria – Garden City

Do you know that Victoria is a Garden City? My uncle was impressed that there are so many gardens and parks around the city.

There’s the main big garden, the Royal Botanic Gardens. I’ve blogged about it before. I realized I forgot to visit one section in this big garden. The Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden. In this garden, there’s a vegetable patch. They have all sorts of vegetables, pumpkin, tomato, cucumber, figs, grape vines, pepper, etc…

Me with pumpkin

Then there’s the Queen Victoria Gardens. You can’t miss the big garden clock.

FYI, Victoria was ruled by Queen Victoria, that’s why this state is called Victoria. And there are statues of Queen Victoria in this garden.

And there’s Alexandra Gardens.

There’s the Fitzroy Gardens:

Mat and I went to this garden with a very optimistic feeling about the weather. When we got down the tram, it started to rain. So we got stuck in this indoor garden. And worst of all, we came without a camera. So picture above was taken using Mat’s hp.

These gardens are just one of the few ones in the city of Melbourne. There are many more outside of Melbourne city.

And you won’t feel like a doo dah if you sit on the grass and read newspapers in the middle of the afternoon.