25 years on…
This year Second Nature celebrates its 25th birthday. The company has a long and rich history. Its genesis began well before its formal incorporation in 1996. It is in fact the result of the [...]
Rivercare Group Te Wai O Pareira
Second Nature works in the environmental space. As landscape gardeners, our work is about being in a relationship with nature. Our people chose ‘landscape’ as their profession out of a passion for the natural [...]
Second Nature Brand Story
In 2012 Second Nature commissioned Studio Alexander to refresh our company brand. This work endures with the brand story and the distinctive graphics still in use today The late Mike Hodge was commissioned by [...]
Myrtle Rust
Myrtle rust is a fungal disease that severely attacks plants in the myrtle family including pōhutukawa, mānuka and rātā. It is now in New Zealand. In recent weeks, as we have been maintaining [...]
Landscape Gardener – more than just a job!
What is it to be a landscape gardener? What drives and inspires those who choose this job? A gardener works at creating and caring for outdoor environments – the work is creative and hugely rewarding, [...]
Take a tour of Chris Ballantyne’s organic mini-farm in Te Atatu
A landscaper with a mini backyard farm believes small-scale food production is key to well-being and urban ecological balance. This story is an extract from In Your Backyard: Urban Harvest. Article written by Emma Rawson [...]
How Kate Coughlan’s city courtyard garden became an edible oasis
When NZ Life & Leisure editor Kate Coughlan left behind her vast veggie beds at the Rocket Ranch for city life she felt starved. She called in Second Nature to create a small courtyard garden [...]
Permeable Paving
How it’s meant to be: It rains… The vegetative canopy captures some of the rainfall and protects the soil surface from erosion. Water then drips to the ground surface. The organic humus layer on [...]