Botanical Gardens Brisbane is located 7 km from the city centre in the suburb Toowong, at the foot of the highest mountain of Brisbane's mount coot-TA.
The original name of the garden that is spread over 52 hectares, the Botanical Gardens mount coot-TA". It was opened to the public in 1976 by the City Council of Brisbane. This is the second Botanical garden in the city. The first and older of the two, known as the City Botanic Gardens, is located in the business centre of Brisbane. The gardens had to be split due to the fact that the collections of plants were grown and no longer fit on a single site.
Today in the Botanical Gardens at mount coot-that you can visit several thematic exhibitions: Tropical Dome, opened in 1977 and has 9 meters high and 28 meters in diameter; a Japanese garden; a Garden of bonsai; Fern Avenue; arid zone with cacti; exotic rain forest; temperate zone garden; bamboo thickets; Australian plant communities.
Especially popular among tourists is the Japanese garden, designed by Kenzo Ogata, one of the leading promoters of fashion in traditional Japanese gardens. It is made in strict accordance with Japanese canons, but for its creation were used Australian trees, shrubs and flowers. The garden was transferred to the Botanical Garden from the pavilion of the Japanese government with Expo 88.Visitors to the garden welcomes commemorative plaque from the City Council of Brisbane and the Japanese Association, and on the entrance gate is a plate with calligraphic inscription, made by the then Prime Minister of Japan Noboru Takeshita. On the plate of gold engraved with the name of the garden "Yu-Tsui-ene," which can be literally translated as "pleasure, blue-green, garden" and that means "Come into the garden and enjoy the blue water and green trees". The most captivating sights of garden – stones that depict mountains and symbolize "the patience and everlasting over time".
In 2005, right at the gates of the Japanese garden began to blossom bamboo Bush. Bamboo flowers are very rare – many fans of the plants over a lifetime, can never see its colors. As usually happens in such cases, after flowering bamboo faded and was replaced by another plant.
In the Japanese garden annually in September, is a Japanese cultural festival, during which you can participate in a tea ceremony, learn Japanese calligraphy and the art of ikebana.?