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Urban Courtyard Garden
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Creating Inspiring Landscapes

Creative and Inspired Auckland Landscaping
 

We're a collection of passionate and collaborative people that love creating beautiful outdoor experiences through high-end landscaping. We craft distinctive, harmonious, and enduring landscapes where people want to live and play.

What We Do

Landscape Design

Our architects and designers create detailed plans that match your vision. From conducting a site analysis to creating 3D renders, our design process is tailored to support your dream landscape.

Landscape Construction

We can bring your vision to life with hardscape elements like walkways, retaining walls, and water features, ensuring each feature blends seamlessly with the natural surroundings.

Landscape Planting

We provide planting services and can install the softscaping and horticultural features for your garden. With extensive knowledge of New Zealand’s natural environment, our gardeners are passionate about planting.

Landscape Maintenance

Maintaining the beauty of your landscape is just as important as creating it. We offer landscape maintenance services to keep your outdoor spaces looking pristine.

Residential Landscaping

We create stunning outdoor spaces for private homes, providing a serene environment for your family to enjoy year-round.

Commercial Landscaping

We create stunning outdoor spaces for private homes, providing a serene environment for your family to enjoy year-round.

Selected Projects

Selected Projects

Contemporary Garden Design
Supreme Award Winner 2023 Landscapes of Distinction
Gold Winner 2023 Landscapes of Distinction
Garden Design, edible and flowering garden beds
Contemporary landscaping, edible and flowering garden beds
Architectural home with contemporary landscaping
Ficus planter box

Point Chevalier Courtyard

This small courtyard demonstrates how even in an urban context a garden can be designed that is both aesthetically pleasing and a provider of both edible and flowering plants with which to feed the owners and the surrounding eco-system in a sophisticated and sustainable way.

Contemporary Landscape Design, Indoor Outdoor Living
Contemporary Landscape Design, Indoor Outdoor Living
Contemporary Landscape Design, Indoor Outdoor Living

St Marys Bay Courtyard

A dramatic entrance to this historic Auckland home provides a sheltered and inviting outdoor living space which complements the architecture of the house. 

Coastal Landscape Design with Native Planting
Coastal Landscape Design with Native Planting
Coastal Landscape Design with Native Planting
Coastal Landscape Design with Native Planting
Coastal Landscape Design with Native Planting

Castle Rock

The landscape design transformed a barren pastoral landscape that had been subject to bad land management for decades, into a native haven that creates a functioning ecosystem while meeting the aesthetic and practical needs of the client. The planting palette mirrors the tones and forms of the native vegetation. 

Heritage Villa Courtyard Landscape Design
Heritage Villa Courtyard Landscape Design
Heritage Villa Courtyard Landscape Design
Heritage Villa Courtyard Landscape Design

Mt Eden Courtyard

The design of this entry courtyard created a seamless connection between the interior and exterior character of this heritage masonry villa. It reflects the creative and artistic personality of its owner with classic undertones being overlaid with whimsy and visual richness.  

Hardwood Wooden decking, stairs and high-end pool enclosure
Hardwood Wooden decking and high-end pool enclosure, Nikau Palm and Mondo Grass
Glass pool fencing, High-end carpentry and softscaping
Hardwood Decking and Pool Enclosure

Herne Bay Pool

This garden design treads lightly on the land via a minimal construction footprint and sympathetic techniques specifically tailored to the situation. 

 

An attractive and functional family garden has been created, that includes a small dipping pool, entertainment spaces, useable lawn space, ornamental and vegetable gardens, improved site access and security, all executed with a high degree of skill.

Urban Garden Design, Edible Planting
Urban Garden Design, Edible Planting
Urban Garden Design, Edible Planting
Urban Garden Design, Edible Planting

Productive Garden Courtyard

A makeover of this Italianate courtyard created both an attractive and restful outdoor entertaining sanctuary and a productive garden producing quantities of fruit and vegetables throughout the year.

Contemporary Design and Landscape Construction
Contemporary Landscape Design and Landscape Construction
Contemporary Landscape Design, Landscape and Pool Construction
Contemporary Landscape Design and Landscape Construction

Remuera Residence

This contemporary design illustrates a clever articulation of space and movement throughout, with bold plantings and a varied and skillful use of different concrete finishes.  

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Your garden and outdoor space is an extension of yourself.
Through creativity, we’ll help you bring it to life.

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