A Sea View
By Design + Garden Landscapes
Dunedin | 2016
• Silver – Horticulture
This St Clair garden was designed with the brief for a low maintenance natural garden on this harsh windswept site.
The main design was based around trying to achieve shelter and easy-care with mainly a native coastal theme. The site is very exposed to the sea breeze and it has been a struggle to get plants established in the poor soils and rugged site. The area can dry out very quickly and we have kept our plant pallet mainly around hardy natives and sun loving exotics.
The main harder elements are based on natural materials with stone and exposed concrete and natural slab and schist. Key elements have been brought in with the use of upright accent river stone gabions. We have also formed two main seating spaces to follow the shelter. The deck picks up morning sun while the main internal courtyard picks up late sun.
Plant design is a key element in the success of this garden with the use of hardy planting groups allowing quick cover and shelter to allow internal plantings to establish. We used a combination of sun-loving hardy exotics like Choisya, Cistus and Grevillea and Agapanthus combined with natives to achieve quick cover with colour and texture.
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Design + Garden Landscapes is in the business of providing beautiful gardens and outdoor living areas that match or surpass our customer’s dreams. The look on our customers' faces when we have been successful says it all.
We have been in business now for over 25 years. It’s been a long journey and we have figured out a winning formula for keeping our customer happy and creating quality every time.
The goal for us has always been to blend beauty, function and quality in all of our work. We soon realised that in order to retain control of our projects from start to finish, we would need to keep all of the services in-house. Design & Garden Landscapes became one of the first professional Otago landscape firms to provide a full in-house service. Today our team boasts qualified specialists in design, planting, construction and maintenance, producing quality every step of the way.
Our team work closely together and each team member is briefed on the whole project as well as the task they are personally responsible for. You can be confident that you won’t be surprised by the arrival of a cowboy/subcontractor on your doorstep (who has little understanding of the overall project, let alone what they are doing).
Design and Garden Landscapes is an accredited member of REGISTERED MASTER LANDSCAPERS, (Our industry organisation) who host a bi-annual National awards programme. The company has entered these awards since 2002 and has picked up awards every time since then with creative design and industry-leading construction, including the National Award of LANDSCAPE OF THE YEAR for 2010 and 2014.
If you are looking for an awesome team whose idea of success is “that look” on your face at the end of the project – you have come to the right place. Our awards tell us our formula is a good one and our offering can be summed up as follow:
- A company with 25+ years of experience in designing and building award-winning gardens.
- Innovative and Creative with fresh ideas.
- An in-house team of qualified professionals
- A proven process to take you seamlessly from concept to completion
- A fun and enthusiastic team of staff
- We aim to meet and exceed your expectations.
- Increase the value of your largest asset