The North Lodge

You can join the Friends in supporting the Botanic Gardens and local SA suppliers and artists.

Visit the North Lodge Gift Shop for your next gift ideas. 

North Lodge

Friends GIFT SHOP in North Lodge
Friends Gates, Plane Tree Drive (off Hackney Road)

Support the work of the Friends in supporting the Botanic Gardens.
The Gift Shop supports local SA suppliers and artists

Open 10am - 3pm, 7 days a week

Phone:  8222 9482

North Lodge has exciting new products

  • A changing display of original botanical art, photography and gift cards for sale
  • Souvenirs, plants, books, cards, craft for sale Eftpos available
  • Childrens' books
  • KI Eucalyptus Oil Products, including bodycare products, insect deterrent
  • Nature Creative Foods
  • Gift Ideas
  • Much more.

The Friends Gift Shop is staffed by Volunteers. 

If you are interested in volunteering in the Friends Gift Shop in North Lodge contact the Friends Office on 8222 9367 or friendsabg@internode.on.net

 

The Friends Gift Shop is staffed by Volunteers. 

If you are interested in volunteering in the Friends Gift Shop in North Lodge contact the Friends Office on 8222 9367 or friendsabg@internode.on.net

North Lodge also hosts Activities for FBGA members

  • Mahjong Mondays 10 am to 1 pm
  • Book clubs 1st and 3rd Mondays 1:30 to 3 pm1330
  • Busy Hands craft days 

North Lodge is an 1866 cottage by the Friends Gate and has been the home of the Friends since 2000.  For over 130 years North Lodge was continuously occupied by the foreman and his family and other garden staff. 

Some of the families that lived there were:

1895, the foreman William Babidge Gilpin and his family.
1932, Hermann Behrndt and his family.
1951, John Dwight and his family.
1956 saw the arrival of Roy Haskett and his wife.

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