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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This project was implemented for a visionary client who wanted to transform a 2000m2 industrial wasteland into a bio-diverse garden, with a special focus on pollination. The client’s business markets honey-based products, has bee [...]
Words: Kerry Speirs Lead Garden Designer We all love a beautiful garden. So, with all the lovely gardens out there, what is it that makes one stand out from the rest, attaining a kind [...]