Dunedin | 2016
• Best landscape for Horticulture
• Gold – Horticulture
• Gold – Design
• Gold – Construction
The client brief was to design a garden with better access to the main door and to remove all front lawn space, allowing for a colourful more modern garden that would fit in with the Art Deco house. The clients garden space is small and she wanted to create a small but interesting main entrance to the house with good access paths and wide steps, with the option of a seating space.
The harder elements are the two sets of floating exposed concrete steps and path allowing easy access to the front door. We have placed a feature block wall and seat and the remaining gardens are fully planted. We placed in new exposed concrete edges and then asphalt for the driveway. Outdoor lighting is also placed to accent the steps.
The planting was designed around some of the client’s wish list, with the use of mainly exotics and herbaceous perennials and a back bone of screening natives and some foundation Rhododendron. We have worked around one larger specimen Maple that was from the original garden. The use of colour in this garden was a strong design element with flowering wanted throughout the year.
The client loves the garden, and likes working outside to maintain it and enjoys its year-round interest.
The 2016 Landscaping New Zealand Awards Judges also loved the garden resulting in 3 gold awards for the project and the best horticulture award.
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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
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