Tamborine Mountain Regional Botanic Gardens.
Just a short drive through the hinterland west from the Gold Coast. Botanic Gardens combine a colourful and diverse range of exotic and native flora. The Gardens include a glorious lake as the centrepiece, a tranquil Japanese garden, a tropical rainforest walk and many other delights.
Bring a picnic, bring the children, take a stroll along the many walks and learn why the Tamborine Mountain Regional Botanic Gardens are truly where Tropical meets Temperate.
The Gardens are supported, maintained and administered by volunteers and are some of the most dynamic and active people promoting the values and enjoyment of gardening in south-east Queensland.
Gardens Guide
Visitor Information
The Gardens are open to the public every day of the year from dawn until dusk.
Walkways & Prominent Gardens
Walking through the gardens is easy-going (except for the Rainforest Walk – 150 metres) and distances are not great.
History & Formation
The Botanic Gardens at Tamborine Mountain were established in 1983 as an initiative of the Tamborine Mountain Garden Club.
Gardens Volunteers
Volunteers do the majority of the work at the Botanic Gardens.
Download our Gardens Visitor App
Make your Gardens visit even more memorable.
Our smartphone app is your interactive guide to all of the fascinating and wondrous gardens and trails throughout our delightful Botanic Gardens.
Enjoy everything the Gardens have to offer plus so much more. Engage on a new level with the interactive map as you zoom into specific areas to explore. Enjoy carefully curated music at our many contemplative sites. Immerse yourself with the app’s I Spy activity – fun for children and adults. Or try something new with the Birdwatching activity. See how many species you can observe.
Read about the history of our Gardens and view it through the seasons as the colours change and evolve.
Explore, immerse and take your enjoyment of the Gardens to new heights with our unique Botanic Gardens app. It’s free, it’s easy to navigate and it’s great fun!
Botanic Garden Journal
Check out our great locally written articles!
Looking great in the gardens
Time to check out the camellias As we begin to feel the season change it's time to watch out for camellias First come the sasanquas These light hearted trees are flowering all over the mountain at the moment, many of the trees have a carpet of petals underneath as the...
12 more of the best
Looking after your chickens in autumn. Thanks to Glenda Sullivan for this update Jobs for Autumn Check birds for lice and their house for the presence of red mite. Treat hen house with food-grade diatomaceous earth (DE) and add to the flocks dust bath. . Hens moult...
Tawny Frogmouth
Spotted recently at the Gardens and photographed by Dawn Hooper our Bird expert The tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) is a species of frogmouth native to Australia that is found throughout the Australian mainland and...
Bunya Nut Cake
As promised here is the recipe for Bunya Nut Cake Ingredients 750 g husked Bunya Nuts 1/2 litre milk 75 g butter 300 g sugar 6 egg yolks 6 egg whites 100 g almond meal 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 pinch salt 1 teaspoon almond essence Method Boil kernels in large...
What can you do with a Bunya Nut?
As promised here are some great ideas for using Bunya Nuts from the Vegie Interest Group - submitted by Di Howard What to do to prepare the Bunya Nut. They usually drop off the tree so when they open up you collect all the nuts....
What’s cooking
A Simple recipe using what's in your garden this month These vegetables were on the competition table at the last Garden Club meeting. Members bring produce from their garden and members vote for the winner. This month is was the lovely pumpkin. ...