PORTFOLIO
NEW HOME GARDEN – DOVES BAY
Design Brief:
To provide a planting plan that offers a stylish and minimalist garden that
merges tropical retreat with formal english influence.
Approach:
Plant palette includes a blend of palms, cycads, vireya, magnolia, protea, roses, camellia hedge
underplanted with pratia, cerastium, spanish shawl, succulents and mondo grass.
PERENNIAL GARDEN – NESS ROAD
Brief:
To provide a planting plan for a perennial garden that is wildly colourful. Designed to be gazed at.
Approach:
Create a colour palette of loud orange to complementary pinks to blue to purple. Year round interest is provided for but summer flowers are the highlight.
GARDEN ENHANCEMENT – ADDING VALUE TO SELL – JACARANDA PLACE
Design Brief:
To beautify and add value to the property with an epic tidy up, add plants and wooden edging.
Approach:
To create a simple design with plants that can handle extreme conditions, provide structure and texture. We selected locally available plants including a range of succulents at the entrance with Lomandra ‘Misty Green’. The internal garden features a Ficus tuffy hedge with a Kowhai tree in the corner for future shade and screening, and Westringia brevifolia which can be pruned into cloud mounds, punctuated with Lomandra ‘Frosty Tops’. Opposite this, Eriostemon ‘Flower Girl’ is mass planted with Dicondra ‘Silver Falls’ below. Along the trellis Trachelospermum jasminoides was selected to provide the future owner with options to have it climb or maintained as a ground cover.
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FIRST HOME OWNER GARDEN ENHANCEMENT – HARURU FALLS
Design Brief:
To offer advice and recommendations for managing the property while adding value.
To provide a concept plan that provides minor interventions that have the greatest overall affect for aesthetics, beauty, easy care and budget.
Approach:
Improve the gardens function, create simplicity, to be tidy and as low maintenance as possible while adding interest.
Aesthetic is minimalist, slightly formal with clean edges.
LAWN INTO MINI FORESTS – KAWAKAWA
Design Brief:
To create a welcoming, largely native garden that makes Geraldine feel “Ahhh I’m home”.
Approach:
From the image of her beautiful & symbolic tattoo I selected words to guide the design process – Protection (mountain), Restoration Profusion (miniature forest) and Purity (white hebe garden).
There are three island gardens each unique in form & colour but are united with intent & distinct ponga edging.
