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Water features in Auckland, New Zealand. This water feature will suit any garden or indoor situation. Beautifully hand carved, this water feature will be sure to impress!

Well Winter is here. The gardens are taking some heavy winds and the landscape looks a bit battered around here at the moment. Not so great for photos. Some Winter design tips include: Make sure all new Roses are firmly staked Ensure mulch is placed on any exposed soils Reduce watering indoor plants Increase composting temperature with lawn clippings Remove old veges from gardens to avoid disease Some of our landscapes in New Zealand really show off in Winter. Check out the Pukeiti Gardens in New Plymouth. NZ. Link to Pukeiti Gardens for a look at the amazing display of Rhododendrons.

Auckland sculptor Grant Williams is one of our favourite Landscape Sculptor/Artists. This work at the Albany Westfield shopping mall civic area is impressive and somewhat mesmerizing. Impressive work and equally impressive landscape design and garden installation. Well worth a look in the early evening when it is all lit up. To view Grant's Website click here .

Chilli Varieties for New Zealand Summer Vege gardens. Vegetable gardening advice from local Landscaper and designer in Auckland NZ. Chilli- Hungarian Yellow. Shown above. - Producing tapered fruit that mature from green to yellow to red and have a mild sweet flavour. Chosen for the home gardener for it's consistent performance in the garden. - Great for salsa, salads, stir-frying and roasting. Chilli- Serrano. Colourful fruits that mature to purple - black. - Bullet shaped 5-6cm fruits, Said to be 5 times hotter than Jalapeno Chilli. - Good for salsa as they dont have tin walls that would normally require staming or peeiling. Chilli- Habanero Red. Another consistent home garden vege variety. Grows well in container or pot. - Producing HOT small twisted green to red fruits. - Plant when night time temps are above 13.c, may need a stake for support.

Landscaper plants for Coastal New Zealand gardens and landscapes. Meterosideros excelsa (Pohutukawa, sometimes spelt pohutakawa, is one of New Zealand's most visually recognisable plants when in flower. Standing sometimes up to 20m the coastal loving plant is seen as the county's native Christmas Tree. Flowering through our hot summer festive months, long lasting blooms continue to add visual delight to our coastal and residential landscapes. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES

Landscape Gardener plans, Auckland Garden Design NZ. Landscaping, gardeners, designers. Landscape and Garden Design in Auckland New Zealand. Landscaping ideas and garden plans by qualified landscape designers in Auckland New Zealand, NZ. Bear with us as we update our new look NZLANDSCAPES Landscape Designer website . The photo below is a recently planted fenceline raised garden, NZ Plants are mixed Green and Bronze Pseudopanax with Astelia 'Westland' planted at the base. Like our website this garden is still a work in progress at this stage.

Auckland landscaper in New Zealand NZ. Landscape design/designer. Special offer on landscape design!!! 25% off Concept plans and we will throw in a free planting plan with any concept plan during the SPRING season 2009. Are you stuck for spring landscape design ideas for your New Zealand garden? A landscape designer will arrive on site to view your garden and offer landscaping options for your individual situation. Having a landscape concept plan drawn up allows you to see the garden as a visual experience. Using perspective sketches and plant options to create the essence of the garden. The landscape plan will help you or a landscaper to plant up the garden from an easy to read planting plan. Your landscape plan will keep the job on track and assists in getting the garden plant placement correct. Plans shown here included perspective sketches and a full landscape report to support the design. The first step to achieving an outstanding garden is to have a consultation with a qualified ...

NZ Garden Designers. Auckland or NZ wide. Landscaping and Landscape Design specialists (landscape concept plan shown above). New Zealand gardening and planting advice, garden planning, planting plans and landscape concept plans. Our NZ garden designers will create landscaping plans to suit your individual requirements. Every garden is an artwork in itself, to enquire about a landscaped garden to suit your lifestyle, you can call to speak with one of our designers or Email NZLANDSCAPES designer HERE.

Landscape Consultation New Zealand NZ. Stage 1: Landscape consultation / client brief. The client in this case was in a panic! As well as being in dire need of some assistance helping her decide what to do with the somewhat destructed rear area to her yard, she also had no idea where to start designing, or where to go to get plants and stone. Her former back yard was reduced to a pile of earth and a huge hole where large sections of concrete were removed from where previous home owners had laid large blocks for vehicular parking. Recovered from the excavation were some six hundred or so (previously used) paving stones that she hoped would be able to be incorporated into the final landscape design. There are also two healthy Cordyline australis in the area to be retained, so the idea was also to be to include these current plantings amongst the plantings suggested by the designer. Predominantly New Zealand native plant species were to be used in combination with New Zealand stone. The ...

Tranquil water features from The Landscaping Company, Kumeu Garden Centre, SH16, Kumeu. Seen here on display at the Kumeu Garden Show was a huge birdbath, leaf water wall, and bubbling ern water feature. Auckland landscaping ideas New Zealand, NZ. Landscape design.

Pizza Ovens are the perfect way to entertain friends in your garden, all season pizza ovens created by leisure designs. Enhance any garden or landscape with a practical garden feature. Auckland landscaping ideas, New Zealand. For contact details Email NZLANDSCAPES designer HERE.

Unique WoodNZ. Specialists in outdoor furniture. A wonderful range of classic Nz garden furniture. This Deck Chair was incredibly comfortable with moulded back and seat slats. Landscaping ideas Auckland New Zealand. NZ. For contact info Email NZLANDSCAPES designer HERE.

New Zealand landscape design specialists. Auckland based landscape designers will evaluate your landscape site and create landscaping concept plans for you. Every landscaping site is individual with differing climate and soil conditions. The landscape consultation uses defined analysis techniques to determine the desired plants for the specific planting location. To speak to our designers about your landscape options or landscaping ideas please, Email NZLANDSCAPES designer HERE.

Plant plans and garden / planting layout plans are the best way to achieve a desired landscape garden style. Using a professionally designed landscape plan you are able to keep on track towards the final landscaping goals and find the plants that are required in the planting plan earlier on in the process. This helps to establish the basis of the design. Positioning of plants is made easy with the added bonus of using a scaled plant plan. Landscapers and gardeners use working plans drawn to scale to determine plant widths, placement, positioning of structures and any dominant landscape features. To enquire about Landscape Planting plans in New Zealand, NZ, send email to NZLANDSCAPES follow the link above or CLICK HERE to use your mail client.

Get ready for Autumn planting. We are currently offering until the end of March 2008, 20% savings on 'Master Landscape Plans' designed for regional Auckland New Zealand customers as a show of our commitment and support to total customer satisfaction. Receive 20% reduced price on any of the 'Master Plan' landscape design packages we have available ('Master Plan' includes Concept Plan, Perspective Sketches and Planting Plans). EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES.COM If you book in for an on-site Landscape Consultation before the end of March 2008 you will also go in the prize draw to win a NZLANDSCAPES original abstract oil painting to the value of $800.00 (NZD). Email to find out more on 20% savings on Landscape design during March 08 .

Landscape Lighting Design NZ, Auckland, New Zealand. NZLANDSCAPES Landscape designers in Auckland offer you landscape lighting consultation, design and installation services. Speak to our landscape designers about what specialist landscape lighting is right for your garden. (Photos courtesy Advanced lighting technologies,inc.) To find out more about Ruud Lighting products call or email us for email brochures or Email for landscape lighting advice and lighting services information HERE. Any garden will come alive and enhance outdoor living with the use of quality landscape and garden lighting. Prices for lighting design and installation vary for each individual client, it is best to start with an on-site lighting consultation with a professional. Speak with a professional to ensure you are getting the desired effect from your lighting installation and that you receive quality garden lighting products. If you require more assistance with garden lighting plans, layout schemes, what fixt...

Before Photo. Proposed area to be designed. Pre extention stage. Landscaper Designer Photo. Landscape Design Perspective Sketch for proposed garden area to be landscaped, as pictured above in Before Photo. Strong directional lines and bright plants are leading visitors to the front door, plantings disguise the garage from views on the left, one of the client design requirements discussed in the client brief at the time of their landscape planning consultation, their priority was to screen views into the garage and create a vivid entrance way with a modern native garden style influence. Lush plantings of Arthropodium and tree fern would be introduced. To define the Charcoal coloured larger sized paving stones or sandstone/slate path through to the front door, garden lighting effects would come to the fore, by placing high quality low voltage garden lighting instant enhancement at night would lift this garden area to be both attractive and spectacular at night. Lighting Plans are availab...

Muriwai Gannet Rock, Auckland landscape Designer Photos, NZ Landscapes.

For NZLANDSCAPES RSS GARDEN BLOG Take a look at http://nzgardenblog.blogspot.com/ NZLANDSCAPES Landscape Designers in Auckland, New Zealand will be sourcing during the coming year of 2008, the best New Zealand gardening and landscaping RSS feeds, (RSS feeds are snippets of other websites condensed to make available for someone with another website to place snippets of each others websites within one anothers sites). So, Anything with a green feel, fun and interesting or New Zealand places to see, along with more of the hard landscape and landscape plant advice based information. As always we are available via email or phone for any landscape advice you may require. Feel free to Email NZLANDSCAPES designer HERE.

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