Replace the woodchip and bark below your shrubs with a living layer of plants. My last piece was about allowing grasslands – mainly lawns, to grow more naturally and to include flowers both for our enjoyment and for the benefit of those crucial insects, the pollinators. Here I will look in a bit more detail […]
This is the fifth article of a series of short pieces for landscapedesign.co.nz in which I look at current trends and ideas in garden design. There is a lot of intensively mown grass in New Zealand–road berms, parks and reserves, garden lawns and various types of ‘unused land’–even if we exclude sports pitches. Most of […]
Based in the Waikato I regularly carry out design projects in challenging places beyond the main Waikato basin. In 2011, I met with a young couple in the Taumarunui region, who had built a new residence on their farm and requested that I provide them with a Landscape Plan. They wanted a “blueprint” to develop […]
SurePave is a plastic cellular paving grid for reinforcing grass or gravel where a permeable or porous surface is required. The unique design of this system offers excellent ground reinforcement by creating a surface made up by an open cell structure that can be used with either grass or gravel. SurePave pavers are suitable for […]
Up to 25 gardens designed by some of the country’s top designers will be showcased in the two-day Auckland Garden Design Fest on November 16 and 17, 2013. The two-yearly Fest, which began in 2011 and was inspired by Melbourne’s renowned Rotary Garden DesignFest, is organised by Garden Design Society of NZ and the Rotary […]
Easter is here and for many working people it is a great time to get the summer gardens cleaned up and preparations made for the coming winter. It is also the last chance to do some late plantings of vegetables and flowers for winter use and colour. In the vegetable garden you can do a […]
It is March already, first month of autumn and only 5 weeks till daylight savings ends. Daylight savings gives us a perception that the days are still long, with a good amount of time in the early evening to do a few jobs outside as well as water. We run by the clock on the […]
Firstly I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Gardening New Year. This will be the last weekly article till after the New Year which means I get to have a couple of weeks break from writing. I am not going away and will be working on the non-statuary […]
