Welcome to the website for The Friends of the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden.

You can find us on Hardacre Street, off Harbour Drive in Coffs Harbour, just 1km.east of the Central Business District.

Postal address: PO Box 648, Coffs Harbour, NSW 2450.

Tel: (02)66484188.

The Garden is open from 9am to 5 pm. daily. 

Entry is free. Donations are always welcome, and all money goes towards the maintenance and growth of the Garden.

The Botanic Garden covers about 20 hectares of Crown Land surrounded on three sides by Coffs Creek, the banks of which are lined with naturally occurring mangroves. The tidal part of the creek forms part of the Solitary Islands Marine Park. It is one of the major regional botanic gardens on coastal New South Wales north of Sydney. There are displays of Australian native and exotic plants, including many rare and endangered species.

There are numerous information leaflets available at the garden entrance.

Officially opened in 1988, the Garden continues to expand, the newest addition being the Japanese Garden which has been designed not only for plants indigenous to Japan, but also for the traditions and culture that are part and parcel of Japanese life. Engineers and gardeners have come from Coffs Harbour's sister city of Sasebo in Nagasaki prefecture to advise and teach the various aspects of a Japanese Garden.