Special Gardens and Walkways

Lakeside at the gardens is special at all times of the year, framed with tree ferns, Japanese windflowers and many colours of iris reflecting in the water. The lake is a haven for water birds, fish, frogs and is crossed by the beautiful old stone bridge which was...

Magnolias are prized worldwide for their flowers and forms. Growing as large shrubs or trees they produce showy fragrant flowers that are white, pink,red, purple or yellow. Some forms are evergreen with glossy leathery leaves and some evergreen types have buds, stems...

Visit the Perennial garden and you will be inspired to create your own cottage garden Lots of old fashioned favourites here Many of the plants featured in the Perennial Bed are available for sale from the Potty Potters on Wednesday and Thursday Mornings from 8.30 to...

Visitors to the Gardens will delight in the vast range of camellias which grace our gardens from the hedging sasanquas at the entrance to the growing collection of over 65 different types of Camellia in the area below the rotunda. Many of the Camellias were donated by...

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The Bromeliad Garden by the lakeside is always a popular spot. These amazing plants - with around 3,200 species - are mostly from the tropical Americas. The centrepiece of the garden is a large silk floss tree (Ceiba speciosa), a native of tropical and sub-tropical...

The Rose Garden Thanks to volunteer Dawn Hooper, the Rose Garden is taking on a new look with the addition of the highly perfumed hybrid tea roses.  The first thing that visitors do, according to Dawn is to "smell the roses" so Dawn thought it time to accommodate our...

The Ken Baker Orchid House Ken Baker was a visionary and a moving force behind the establishment of the Botanic Gardens Ken worked tirelessly in the 1980's to convince the then Beaudesert council to allocate the land to the garden club and also undertook the initial...

What is a Rhododendron? As well as the popular garden shrubs displaying the dazzling colourful spring flowers we associate with the rhododendrons, this large and complex genus also includes various types of evergreen and deciduous azaleas, once classified as a...

The Rainforest Walk has now reopened for visitors The Volunteers at the gardens are constantly repairing and upgrading different sections of the gardens for your enjoyment and safety.   The New boardwalk and stairs with handrails will now make your visit to this...

 White Flower Walk (previously Cherry Tree Walk) Due to our difficult conditions and continual disease in the Cherry Trees these have been replaced over the last few years with Lagerstroemia Indica ( White Crepe Myrtle) under-planted with White Snowball...