Friends of Bendigo Botanic Gardens

05/02/2025

Information session for potential new garden guides for the Botanic Gardens. A brief outline of what is involved will be held at Samuel Gadd Centre in the Heritage section of gardens. Saturday 15th Feb 9.30am.
See earlier post for more details.
Look forward to seeing you.

05/02/2025

20/01/2025

Dahlias at a the heritage gardens.
Summer colour.

18/01/2025

Wanted - Tour Guides at Bendigo Botanic Gardens – Share, Educate, and Inspire! 🌿
Love our botanic gardens? Join our Garden Guide Program and help lead 1-2 tours per month.
✨Share Bendigo and the garden's history
🌱 Educate visitors about plants
🎉 Engage and inspire the community

No expertise needed – we provide training! 💡

Interested? Contact us at [email protected] or tag a friend who’d love this opportunity. Help us bring the garden to life! 🌼

10/01/2025

The Friends Nursery open Saturdays and Tuesdays 10am to 12 noon.
Rear of Samual Gadd Centre (original caretakers cottage) in Heritage section. Hardy plants at very reasonable prices based on pot size.

13/12/2024

Friends Nursery in the Gardens continues to be open Saturday mornings 10am - 12noon during the Christmas break. Lots of hardy plants including Agapanthus white and Miniature Blue, hedging plants, lavenders of various types etc etc

13/12/2024

End of year break-up celebrations. All the workers letting their hair down. Thanks Valentina for your Russian song and dance moves.
Nursery continues to be open during the Summer break.

13/12/2024

The Kangaroo paws seem to be having a great season this year. They can be seen flowering around town and in the Gardens of the Future.

27/11/2024

Lots of fungi up after the recent rains, Agrocybe praecox and Bolbitius titans, under the Golden elm in the heritage gardens.

27/07/2024

Excess tulip bulbs available today. Saturday 10am-12 midday

19/07/2024

The FBBG Nursery still full of interesting plants. Put on your winter woollies, come and see our nursery, and select plants which prefer cooler moist soils to get established.
Open Saturday and Tuesday mornings 10am-12noon.
Bulbs, correas, lavenders, eremophilas, honeysuckle, selected hedging plants, etc etc - all good for planting now.
Nursery is at rear of old caretakers house Bendigo Botanic Gardens, White Hills. Enter via the gardens or Napoleon Cres on Saturday mornings.

12/06/2024

Winter in the Bendigo Botanic Gardens.

31/05/2024

Clearance of Chryssies in large pots only $10 each at the Friends Nursery - tomorrow Saturday 1st June between 10am and midday. Also lots of lavenders and a few Tree Dahlias.

10/05/2024

Chryssies galore - just arrived from council nursery. Pots and cut flowers. Friend’s nursery Saturday 10am-12 noon.

09/05/2024

Chrysanthemum cut flowers available at the nursery this Saturday 11th May . Hours are 10am - middday. Mothers’ Day specials.

01/05/2024

Friends members Annie and Frank washing pots in the nursery. Not glamorous but a much appreciated task.

24/04/2024

The Friends are continuing their free Guided Walks in the gardens at White Hills each Saturday morning, commencing at 10.30am. Learn about the special significant trees in the gardens and many other interesting features.
Meet at the Samuel Gadd Centre in the heritage section of the gardens and while you are there drop in to the Plant Nursery which is open between 10am and midday. There you will find many plants which are in the gardens.
[email protected]

11/04/2024

Guided Walk at Bendigo Botanic Gardens, White Hills every Saturday morning.
Walks commence 10.30am from Samuel Gadd Centre in the Heritage Section of the Gardens.
Run by The Friends of Bendigo Botanic Gardens.