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Don’t let the turkeys get us down
Please help us.. Will you assist us in maintaining the Gardens in beautiful condition by taking your rubbish home with you? Anything you leave behind has to picked up by the volunteers. Otherwise our friends the brush turkeys will spread it all over the gardens and...
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
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
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...
Hydrangea Garden
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Bromeliad Garden
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...
Rose Garden
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...
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 1980's to convince the then Beaudesert council to allocate the land to the garden club and also undertook the initial...
Japanese Garden
What is a Japanese Garden ? At its heart the 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 conception of the garden was to create an idyllic...
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Botanic Gardens volunteers look smarter
through a generous sponsor
The volunteers at the Botanic Gardens will sport bright new presentation shirts at plant sales and events thanks to generous support from Hartley Road Landscaping Supplies & Equipment Hire. Clive Lucas, owner of Hartley Road Landscaping Supplies, delivered the...
“Holy Bat Plant!” February specials on sale at the Botanic Gardens
Looking for that special plant for your indoor collection or maybe in a shady spot in the garden? Throughout February, the Potty Potters at the Botanic Gardens have a ton of specials on offer. The warm weather and plentiful rain has meant that everything in the...