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 more than 65 different types of Camellia in the area below the rotunda. Many of the Camellias were...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 is temporarily closed to visitors as our volunteers work to make it safer. The Volunteers at the gardens are constantly repairing and upgrading different sections of the gardens for your enjoyment and safety. A new boardwalk and stairs with...
The Gardens volunteers are delighted to announce that the Piccabeen Lawn is fully restored and open to our visitors again. The Lawn was closed during May for a "special event" that destroyed the grass. The volunteers knew in advance of the effect that would be caused...
The volunteer team at Tamborine Mountain Regional Botanic Gardens is celebrating following the great success of a fund-raising plant sale in late September. Leader of the plant propagation and sales team, Bobby White, said the team was delighted with the support of...