Welcome
The Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens have been designed to showcase the flora of the Central Queensland Coast Bioregion; a diverse area featuring lush tropical rainforests, wide sweeping beaches, mangrove-lined waterways and open eucalypt forests.
This region incorporates Mackay and surrounding areas, west to Eungella, north to Proserpine and Airlie Beach and south to Clairview. A disjunct section of the bioregion includes a large area from Yeppoon on the coast near Rockhampton north to Shoalwater Bay.
The region’s flora is displayed and researched through gardens consisting of plants and materials typical of specific areas or landforms, such as the Finch Hatton Gorge Waterway Garden and the Sarina/Proserpine Lowlands Garden. Other collections contain plants with similar needs such as the Tropical Shade Garden which features a variety of shade-loving plants.
Natives and exotics are also used in specialised collections that tell important stories of plants and people, such as the Heritage Gardens, Coal Garden and Ethnobotany Gardens.
Our mission is to manage and operate the gardens to display, preserve, research and interpret the botanical and horticultural values of the regional flora in a facility that enhances public enjoyment while increasing knowledge of cultural links to the plant kingdom.
The 51 hectare site will be developed in stages in line with the Masterplan, developed in 2000 and updated in 2010.
You can explore the gardens, plant collections and history in more detail when visiting the site, or virtually online. Search below for the name of a plant you are interested in. See where it is growing in the gardens and find out more about your chosen plant.