The story of this place
Mount Tomah Botanic Garden occupies a 252-hectare site on the highest point of the Bell's Line of Road in the Blue Mountains, providing a remarkable collection of cool-climate plants from the world's southern hemisphere. The rhododendron walk in September and October produces extraordinary colour — over 400 varieties bloom simultaneously. The protea garden, Chilean collection and southern beech forest all provide macro photography subjects. The garden faces the Grose Valley, providing landscape photography opportunities when the mist fills the valley below. Dawn and dusk light across the garden's formal beds and surrounding forest edge produces outstanding botanical photography.