The Friends of Fitzroy Gardens and Lawrence Hargrave Reserve group was formed in 2010 to raise awareness about the significance of the heritage-listed Fitzroy Gardens, Kings Cross, designed in 1970 by Ilmar Berzins, Australia's first qualified landscape architect, to complement El Alamein Fountain, designed by architects Woodward and Taranto. Berzins was ahead of his time making environmentally sensitive interventions into the public domain. His gentle modernism can also be felt in Hyde Park's Sandringham Gardens and in lovely little McElhone Park, in front of Elizabeth Bay House. Friends of Fitzroy Gardens generally lobbies against public gardens being commercialised. It meets each alternate month with the 2011 Residents' Association.