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

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...

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...

 White Flower Walk (previously Cherry Tree Walk) Sadly, our grove of cherry trees suffered debilitating disease have been replaced over the past few years with Lagerstroemia Indica ( White Crepe Myrtle) under-planted with White Snowball Agapanthus. These make a...