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.
Arum lilies, sometimes known as death lilies
Magpie
Kookaburra with chunk of bark
Vivid pink rose
This rose smelled like turkish delight
Unknown flower
So many roses
Fluffy baby Noisy Minor
Single petal rose
Rosebud
Rhododenron about to bloom
Rosebud
Maple in a Japanese style garden
Unknown flower
White Iris
David Austin rose (I think)
Mt Tamborine Botanic Garden
Kookaburra in flight
Wary Kookaburra
Yellow Iris
Kookaburra
Heavenly scented rose packed tight with delicate petals
Beautiful scented rose
Orchids
Single petal rose
Blossoms
Unknown flower
Kookaburra and Magpie in conflict over a morsel of food
Hippeastrum
Japanese style garden
Iris
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