Springtime on the Mountain

Springtime on the Mountain is now over for another year

Springtime on the Mountain 2017
Open Gardens Trail will be on
Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th September 2017
Keep in touch for more information as we plan our next Springtime festival

Springtime on the Mountain is the most spectacular annual display of gardening design and skills in south-east Queensland.

Click to download the Springtime Brochure 2016

NEWSFLASH: Springtime on the Mountain 2015 wins “Community Event of the Year” at the Scenic Rim Australia Day Awards. For full details, click HERE

 

 

TRAIL PASSES $20 PER PERSON
DEPENDENT CHILDREN FREE
GOVERNMENT PENSION CARD HOLDERS $15
SINGLE GARDEN PASSES $5
PRE-BOOKED GROUPS OF 10 OR MORE $15 PER PERSON

For all enquiries please contact the Convenor on 0458 102 344

or email Springtime on the Mountain

Click to download the Springtime Brochure 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1    THE HAVEN

This delightful cottage garden has recently been expanded to include a new garden bed at the front of the property featuring Japanese maples, magnolias and azaleas under-planted with daffodils and bluebells. Gardens surrounding the home feature established trees that form a base for plantings of Japanese maples and camellias under-planted with vireyas, rhododendrons, hellebores, fuchsias and clivias. Annuals, bulbs and perennials add seasonal colour.

2    FORGET ME NOT COTTAGE

The entrance to this delightful cottage garden is a rockery filled with the colour of daisies, roses, agapanthus and annuals. A quaint picket fence and arched gateway welcome visitors to a riot of colour. Plantings embody the classic “English country garden” with delphiniums, a standard wisteria, geraniums and magnolia. The property is adjacent to a significant Landcare site.

3    BOTANIC GARDENS

This 11-hectare masterpiece is the ongoing creation of Tamborine Mountain Garden Club volunteers. Stroll beside the lake or under the wisteria pergola. Visit the cherry blossom walk, the Japanese garden, camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons and bromeliads. Follow a winding path through the new Sooty Owl Walk to the Crooked Mill House with its waterwheel and, further, the tube chimes. Then take the trail through the rainforest.  There is so much to see and do in this beautifully landscaped environment.

4    VILLA MONTANA

Enter this exuberantly coloured almost two-acre garden via a gracious driveway lined with clipped formal hedges leading to a large central fountain. This masterpiece of design offers a Mediterranean feel, with mature conifers and exotic trees providing a classic foil to the colours provided by poppies, alstromerias, gaillardias and roses in the sunken garden. A folly is surrounded by shade-loving plants.

5    WILLOUGHBRIDGE

This garden takes its name and inspiration from a rhododendron garden in the UK. The one-acre sloping site is carefully landscaped with terraced lawns and winding pathways leading to a wisteria-clad artist’s studio with a pergola covered in Japanese white wisteria. Mature liquidambar, crepe myrtle, jacaranda and variegated fig trees provide dappled shade for rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias, gardenias and magnolias.

6    STOCKWELL

The owners’ plan over the past 15 years has been to create an environment in which to relax in this colourful half-acre garden. Meandering paths lead to a parterre edged with Japanese box, in-filled with old species roses and perennials, an Asian-inspired garden, rain forest walk, ponds, a well-stocked vegetable garden and many other surprises. There are ample spots to sit and enjoy.  Botanical artists’ work on display and for sale.

7    FAITHFULL GARDEN

A long sweeping driveway leads across the seven-acre site to this large newly-created garden, designed to accentuate this sloping site and draw the visitor to the spectacular views. Mass plantings of ornamental grasses and perennials lead to the formal terraces that enclose the rose garden, herbs and vegetable beds. Hydrangeas line a woodland walk that leads to the grevillea rockery and a viewing platform that offers breathtaking views.

8    HARMONY GARDENS

Described as park-like, this large informal garden developed over 40 years is surrounded by rainforest trees. Gardens flow in and out around the house and around shrubs and trees with borders of agapanthus, clivias and other hardy species, providing vistas of contrasting leaf shape and colour each season. There are many surprises and varieties of camellias, maples, magnolias, azaleas and bromeliads.

9    VISTAS

With wide sweeping lawns and towering specimen trees, the name of this property provides an apt description. This magnificent five-acre garden, with views to the western mountain range, offers beds of exotic and native flowering shrubs, annuals, bulbs, bromeliads, conifers, a Japanese garden, a native forest, a wisteria walk, an orchard and a tranquil pond. Bring a picnic and enjoy this unique, tranquil environment.