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Best Landscape Design Features For Property Resale

Best Landscape Design Features For Property Resale

October 25th 2023 If you are prepping your property for sale, and want to make it more appealing to potential buyers, then don’t neglect the garden! Because a well-designed garden can increase the value of your Read more

Planting Design - 5 Tricks Landscape Professionals Use

Planting Design - 5 Tricks Landscape Professionals Use

October 5th 2023 A good planting design or interesting planting scheme is what brings a garden to life! Read any plant-focused garden design blog (except this one) and it’ll bang on how if you want your garden Read more

Landscape Designer’s 6 Best Hedge Plants

Landscape Designer’s 6 Best Hedge Plants

September 30th 2023 From a landscape designer's perspective, the best hedge plants for NZ gardens are those that will meet the needs of the client and best serve the purpose for which they are being planted, be that Read more

Drought Tolerant Gardens – Are You Watering Wisely?

Drought Tolerant Gardens – Are You Watering Wisely?

December 4th 2024 Drought-tolerant gardens have been a popular choice for many years and, if your isn't, summer is a good time to think about how you can reduce your water usage in garden. Heading for the Read more

Rosa 'White Carpet' (Carpet Rose) 🏡 DIY Designs

Rosa 'White Carpet' (Carpet Rose) 🏡 DIY Designs

February 26th 2024 The wonderful thing about groundcover roses is that they are highly disease-resistant, simple to grow, and they flower almost year round. They're easy to maintain AND there's no need for any fancy Read more

Lomandra 'White Sands' (Mat Rush) 🏡 DIY Designs

Lomandra 'White Sands' (Mat Rush) 🏡 DIY Designs

February 26th 2024 A beautiful, easy-care plant for creating impact in your planting schemes. Not all grasses give year-round impact the same way Lomandra 'White Sands' does. Maybe because this Australian native is, Read more

Ohiopogon 'Nana' (Dwarf Mondo Grass) 🏡 DIY Designs

Ohiopogon 'Nana' (Dwarf Mondo Grass) 🏡 DIY Designs

February 26th 2024 Dwarf mondo grass is a tough little plant that pops up in many garden designs. It’s ideal for using between pavers instead of pebbles. The most commonly grown dwarf mondo in New Zealand is Ophiopog Read more

Ophiopogon 'Nigrescens' (Black Mondo)

Ophiopogon 'Nigrescens' (Black Mondo)

February 26th 2024 Despite its small stature, 'black mondo grass' is a great plant for adding drama to a planting scheme. The narrow strap-like leaves give a grassy effect, and the unrivaled black colour makes a great Read more

Nandina 'Lemon and Lime' (Heavenly Bamboo) 🏡 DIY Designs

Nandina 'Lemon and Lime' (Heavenly Bamboo) 🏡 DIY Designs

February 26th 2024 🙊Shh, don't tell everyone, but I think this might just be the perfect small garden plant 🎉for all you low-maintenance, time-poor and novice gardeners. Nandina 'Lemon and Lime' is the green for Read more

Best White Camellias for Hedges 🏡 DIY Designs

Best White Camellias for Hedges 🏡 DIY Designs

February 26th 2024 Camellia Sasanqua 'Setugekka' (Sasanqua Camelia) Camellia Sasanqua 'Early Pearly' (Sasanqua Camelia) Camellia Sasanqua 'Silver Dollar (Sasanqua Camelia) Also beautiful as standalone shrubs , these Read more

Acorus gramineus 'Ogon' (golden variegated sweet flag) 🏡 DIY Designs

Acorus gramineus 'Ogon' (golden variegated sweet flag) 🏡 DIY Designs

February 26th 2024 PLANTS FOR FREE!! Well, almost..... These small grass-like plants are super easy to grow and great value for money as the little tufts will spread naturally over time to form a dense ground Read more

Escallonia 'Apple Blossom' (redclaw) 🏡 DIY Designs

Escallonia 'Apple Blossom' (redclaw) 🏡 DIY Designs

February 26th 2024 🌱Talk about underrated! Here's a tough little hedge plant that should be giving poor old over-used Griselinia littoralis a run for its money 💫 I say a tough 'little' plant but there are a a Read more