Ryan Garden
By Design + Garden Landscapes
Mosgiel Lights | Dunedin | 2018
• Gold – Horticulture
• Silver – Landscape Design
• Silver – Construction
This Mosgiel garden was entered in the 2018 MASTER LANDSCAPES AWARDS and was awarded a Gold Award for horticulture and two Silver Awards for design and construction.
The main design elements focused on a large outdoor entertainment space for all weather outdoor entertaining combining a large overhead VERGOLA and outdoor gas fire, with hard surfaces and paths that allow for easy access, with also a secluded space for a spa out from the master bedroom. The main materials are naturalistic, using round river stone in gabion baskets, and dark exposed aggregate and STONESET permeable paving.
A feature design element was to direct visitors to the main door, which is elevated and at the east side of the house, so we had to create a dedicated parking space and a new set of access steps to direct vehicles away from carrying on up the drive to the utility shed. This was also highlighted at night with lighting. The drive itself was designed to curve in and around to both garage access and also main parking spaces, and the brief was to form an avenue effect using specimen trees in the lawn space so an almost park like feel was achieved with the use of natural grassed bunds to allow for some heights to be formed rather than just flat lawn.
The planting follows a more natural curved garden theme using a lot of textural natives mixed with exotics and perennials so that the combinations of plant material will give all year-round interest. We also combined the planting with large rocks carefully placed in gardens to form some informal retaining, but to also form some areas that allow for height, with one rock in particular placed as a seat.
A main outdoor patio feature is a lighting sculpture placed with colour changing led strip lighting and escape textured glass cut into the main screening block walling. More lighting is used to highlight steps and planting and also the main entrance door sculpture pot.
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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