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The Information Centre in the Lower Gardens is run entirely by our wonderful volunteers, and we would be lost without their help. If you have a question about the Garden or your visit, this is the place to go.

We have a range of brochures about the specific collections in the garden and our
welcoming volunteers are onsite to help you get the most out of your visit, and of course, you can pick up some food to feed the (sometimes overly) friendly ducks.

The shop now stocks a collection of botanically themed gifts, selected with our travelling visitors in mind they are mostly flat and compact, but that’s not to say our local visitors won’t also appreciate them. Flat-packed tote bags, coasters and tea towels make perfect stocking fillers or easy gifts for overseas travellers.

The range includes these beautifully packaged boxed soaps, a luxury triple-milled handcrafted soap containing sustainable sodium palmate, enriched with moisturising shea butter, cocoa butter and Manuka honey, and scented with frangipani and Manuka honey. The soaps come in boxes featuring vintage New Zealand flora designs from the ‘Old Master’ decoupage series by Tanya Wolfkamp of Wolfkamp & Stone. We also stock a range of matching greeting cards. The soaps and boxes are made in New Zealand.