[7] In 1919 he gave the gardens to the people of Manchester, declaring he had "determined to offer all that part of my property extending from the Fletcher Moss Playing Fields to Stenner Lane, to the corporation if I could retain the use of it for my life".

[citation needed] Robert Williamson's old house, the Croft, was the location of the first meeting of the Society for the Protection of Birds, later the RSPB.

[11] The main rock gardens are laid out on a south-facing slope and are sheltered from the elements, allowing a great number of non-hardy species to thrive in a micro-climate.

Small waterfalls run down the rock gardens into a pond which is surrounded by royal ferns, marsh marigolds, skunk cabbage, Gunnera ("giant rhubarb") and irises.

The Gardens can be easily reached by public transport as it lies on the Wilmslow Road bus corridor and is close to East Didsbury railway station.

In October 2012 the Manchester-based jazz musician Matthew Halsall released his fourth album called Fletcher Moss Park on the Gondwana Records label.