Springtime on the Mountain is a festival held on Mt Tamborine at the end of September each year. Similar to the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers, Springtime on the Mountain offers visitors beautiful private gardens to explore in addition to blooming public parks and gardens. Mt Tamborine is one of my favourite places to visit on the Gold Coast, best on a weekday when there are fewer day trippers, Mt Tamborine has an abundance of cafes, art and craft shops, nature trails, wineries and some of the yummiest triple cream brie I’ve ever eaten.
This year was my first time for visiting Mt Tamborine during the spring festival, we went on a Saturday in the hope that it would be less hectic than on a Sunday but still it was very busy and parking at a premium. Our choice of destination was the Botanic Gardens, a beautiful, lush spot on the mountain, well maintained by a group of committed volunteers. The artistic children of my friend set themselves up in a central location and set about drawing some of the flowers, my friend and I wandered off to smell the roses.
As some of you know, I love take photos of flowers so you’d think I would at least be able to tell you what some of the flowers are in the photographs below however it isn’t my strongest point. Ff I get the name of a plant wrong or have completely left it off the image please let me know and I will amend the caption.
Yellow Iris
Single petal rose
Heavenly scented rose packed tight with delicate petals
Kookaburra with chunk of bark
Single petal rose
White Iris
Unknown flower
Unknown flower
Rosebud
Fluffy baby Noisy Minor
Hippeastrum
Blossoms
Unknown flower
Beautiful scented rose
Rhododenron about to bloom
Mt Tamborine Botanic Garden
Vivid pink rose
Arum lilies, sometimes known as death lilies
This rose smelled like turkish delight
David Austin rose (I think)
Wary Kookaburra
Maple in a Japanese style garden
Magpie
Japanese style garden
Kookaburra in flight
Rosebud
So many roses
Kookaburra and Magpie in conflict over a morsel of food
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