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!
BGANZ Day plant sale – May 30
The Botanic Gardens team has been working hard to prepare for a major celebration of plants on National Botanic Gardens Day on Sunday, May 30. The volunteers are joining more than 100 botanic gardens across Australia and New Zealand to host their sixth Botanic Garden...
Flooding sweeps through the Botanic Gardens
Heavy rain over a number of days in late March sent floodwaters thundering through the Botanic Gardens. For the second time in just over a year, the iconic stone bridge was almost completely submerged briefly. Fortunately, it seems that no structural damage has...
Volunteers applaud Botanic Gardens plant sale success
Our volunteers are celebrating after the great success of the Gardens' first 2021 plant sale on Saturday, February 13. The four-hour sale raised nearly $3,500, a much-needed boost to the funds of the Botanic Gardens. The large variety of plants on offer brought...
Be early to catch a bargain at Botanic Gardens giant plant sale
The early bird catches . . . a great bargain at the Tamborine Mountain Regional Botanic Gardens one-day plant sale on Saturday, February 13. For the first time, the sale will be held at the Potty Potters' propagation pavilion at the southern end of the Gardens. Signs...
We strike it rich with new water bore
Water is vital to the health of our Botanic Gardens and long dry period over the past couple of years have put our resources under great stress. So our team decided to search for a new source of water. We found it in abundance last week when Hoffmann Drilling drilled...
Name change agreed for Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens
The Committee of Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens Inc unanimously approved a change of name for the Gardens during a meeting on Thursday, September 3. The new name is Tamborine Mountain Regional Botanic Gardens in the Scenic Rim. The decision to change the name was...