 Collins Avenue and McCormack, Goodwin and McDonnell streets bordered the site.Winkel designed the new garden, laying out a figure-of-eight walkway.The site was cut diagonally by a small creek over which a bridge was erected, and the banks of the creek were planted with various trees including Cassia, Bauhinias, Parka, Caesalpina, Tabebuia and Semecarpus australiensis, known as the Tar tree.