In late August the Garden Club runs a week long flower festival with outstanding displays in the Community Centre and an open garden programme. Climate Queensland is known as the Sunshine State of Australia. On Tamborine Mountain you can enjoy abundant sunshine without the heat and humidity that more northerly parts of Queensland sometimes have to endure. A few very light frosts mark the winter season. Winter days usually dawn to clear blue skies and visitors from colder climates can be seen enjoying our balmy days in shorts and summer dresses.
Summer has two distinct phases.
The first part of summer is marked by warm clear days and spectacular evening thunderstorms in traditional tropical style. Sometime after Christmas the summer rains carried in from further north by the North-West Monsoon reach down to replenish the underground water supply that provides both garden and irrigation water for most of the area. Although the humidity can be relatively high during this latter part of summer, the temperatures are quite mild and you only realize how high the humidity must be when you see the Mountain mists rolling in over the eastern escarpment as the sea breeze blows across in the late afternoon. Valuable cabinet timbers such as the Australian Red Cedar lured the first settlers to Tamborine Mountain over 100 years ago. Since then much of this dense forest has been cleared to make way for farming although many remnant stands of the original forest still exist.