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Sooty Owl’s Creekside Trail

Sooty Owl’s Creekside Trail

A delight for the young and the young-at-heart No visit to the Tamborine Mountain Regional Botanic Gardens is complete without exploring Sooty Owl's Creekside Trail. It begins with a sign and then a set of wonderful mosaics set into the pathway. Greater sooty owls are...

Lakeside

Lakeside

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, sometimes, turtles and is crossed by the beautiful old...

Magnolia Garden

Magnolia Garden

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...

Perennial Garden

Perennial Garden

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...

Camellia Garden

Camellia Garden

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 more than 65 different types of Camellia in the area below the rotunda. Many of the Camellias were...

Bromeliad Garden

Bromeliad Garden

The Bromeliad Garden above 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...

Rose Garden

Rose Garden

The Rose Garden, immediately above the Orchid House, is a favourite among visitors for its colourful displays and perfumes. The original Rose Garden was smaller and incorporated some herbs and cottage perennials. In 2007 the Garden was greatly enlarged and re-designed...

Orchid House

Orchid House

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 1980s to convince the then Beaudesert Shire Council to allocate the land to the garden club and also undertook the...

Japanese Garden

Japanese Garden

At its heart, a Japanese garden remains an attempt by humans to encapsulate the spirit of nature, recognising the cycle of seasonal changes and the transience of life. The original concept of the garden was to create an idyllic environment that would tempt the deities...

LATEST NEWS & ARTICLES

Botanic Gardens to re-open on Saturday, September 21

Tamborine Mountain Regional Botanic Gardens will re-open to the public on Saturday, September 21. The Gardens were closed abruptly on December 26, 2023, after the massive storm that severely damaged much of the Mountain. The Gardens were not immune. No buildings were...

Botanic Gardens prepares massive plant sale to celebrate Springtime

The team at Tamborine Mountain Regional Botanic Gardens is celebrating the re-opening of the Gardens with a massive two-day plant sale during the last weekend in September, coinciding with the Springtime on the Mountain festival. All proceeds from the sale go to the...

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