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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

Grevillea sp. in general are drought resistant and as shown with nectar dripping flowers are also excellent bird and bee attracting plants during flowering months through spring and summer. Shown here is Grevillea robusta in flower. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES

Pink Callistemon cultivar. Callistemon or (Bottlebrush) will tollerate dry growing conditions. Showing sprays of colour during spring, summer months in New Zealand gardens. More dry loving plants. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES

Spring time! We are thinking Succulent plants! and Bromeliad Gardens? Think lush foliage gardens in the Spring and Winter season for all year round garden vibrance and gain the benefits of easy care, low maintenance gardens designed by professional landscape designers in Auckland, New Zealand. NZ. New Zealand landscapers, NZLANDSCAPES advise on plant types most suitable to your landscape requirements. (Some landscaping styles suggested may not suit your soil types). Tropical Plants, generally, are more suited to growing regions with low or zero frost conditions all year, where as some succulent plant varieties will tollerate a wide range of growing conditions. EMAIL us to find out what plants are suitable for growing in your individual climate. Send Mail

When planting NZ gardens, NZLANDSCAPES landscape designers in Auckland, New Zealand, consider all the garden requirements each New Zealand plant variety will require. Soil types vary around the world and with a quick soil analysis we can gather the information required to design planting plans for your gardens accordingly. A soil analysis would include: Soil type Soil structure Soil moisture Soil pH.(Acid or Alkaline soil levels). Soil analysis is critical in the performance of particular plant types, for example a Camellia or Rhododendron will not tolerate an alkaline soil, much preferring an acid soil. Some New Zealand Phormium or Cordyline varieties will not tolerate a soil with a constant high water content, therefore sometimes struggling to grow in an over-watered container. Free draining soils are not always the best for plant types that prefer wet or bog type soils. NZ Raupo, Typha orientalis is a variety that will prefer water margin planting. If you are considering planting a ...

NZ Landscape and landscaping Trees for New Zealand gardens / landscapes. Prunus campanulata 'Okame' is a stunning specimen tree in any landscape garden scene, showing late winter to early spring garden pleasures in New Zealand, Prunus campanulata "Okame" can introduce brilliant floral displays through seasonal change. Shown here in full flower, this smaller variety of prunus will attract bird life into your garden with sweet nectar filled flowers. Flowering in July / August in New Zealand, Prunus campanulata 'Okame' is bursting with colour when the winter garden in NZ can be dull and lack vibrancy. Planting P. campanulata 'Okame' will enhance any dreary winter garden scene. Growing to a height of 4-6 meters in New Zealand gardens. May be pruned to shape during winter dormant period ( no leaf ). Can also be trained into an over head canopy rather than shrub form. Remove all additional ground level growth retaining one single growing stem when young. To ...

Pitcher Plants . These magnificent plants have both wonderful flowers and foliage. The tall trumpet pitchers range in size up to an incredible 1 meter for well matured plants. If you are unsure of what carnivorous plants are suitable for your garden you can contact a NZLANDSCAPES Landscape Designer in New Zealand. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES

Landscape design ideas, Trees for NZ gardens. NZLANDSCAPES_ PLANTS for New Zealand Gardens_ Leptospermum nitidum "Copper Sheen" Makes an exceptional residential landscaping Tree. Full size and close up photo of flower. This tree will grow in an arching upright habit, with copper tones in the leaves and purple shades through various stages of growth. Providing a sometimes smothered draping of bright white flowers with bark that shows earthy tones, bark tones remain throughout growth to maturity. In New Zealand the variety can grow quite large if given room to grow, up to 3 m, or so, under perfect conditions otherwise younger plants can be trained to have more of a controlled, vase shaped habit reaching 2.5 m. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES.COM

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Hamilton Gardens video pictorial. NZLANDSCAPES Landscape designers in Auckland, New Zealand. Landscaping ideas for gardeners in NZ. NZLANDSCAPES provide guided tours at Hamilton gardens New Zealand. To email one of our designers to discuss a Hamilton garden tour click here for tours.

Introduction to NZLANDSCAPES Landscape designers in Auckland, New Zealand. Video pictorial of constructed gardens designed by NZLANDSCAPES.

Auckland Domain. Winter gardens and hot houses video pictorial by NZLANDSCAPES landscape designers in Auckland New Zealand. Landscape design ideas for NZ gardens.

Views from Rangitoto Island. Auckland landscapes. Landscape designer photos.

Rangitoto Island, New Zealand. Panoramic views from the summit. Landscape designer photos Auckland New Zealand.

Stunning landscape views of Auckland and the surrounding islands from the summit of Rangitoto Island. Vegetation is lush and green set amongst the soft backdrop of velvet ocean blues. Landscape design in New Zealand is easily influenced by the intense beauty seen on Rangitoto Island. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES.COM

New Zealand landscape photos. Here shown illuminating the afternoon sunshine is Trichomanes reniforme or Kidney fern. Knee deep groves of this fern are found to grow profusely in the harsh volcanic environment of Rangitoto Island, New Zealand. NZLANDSCAPES landscape designers based in Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand take inspiration from the living environment surrounding us all. To speak with one of our landscapers about planting in your local area please email us here .

Griselinia shown here at a juvenial age is more than happy setting its young roots into the humic litter within the volcanic rock shown here growing on Rangitoto Island, New Zealand. Only 650 years young the Island seduces vulcanologists and flora specialists to the island to witness one of the newest landscapes in New Zealand. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES.COM

New Zealand plants are very hardy in a variety of exposed situations. Astelia is seen here growing in large groups within the volcanic rock of Rangitoto Island, New Zealand. By observing native plants growing in their natural environment NZLANDSCAPES landscape garden designers based in Auckland, New Zealand are inspired to include reflections of the natural environment within your residential and commercial landscape design. To speak with one of our professional landscape designers about plants suitable to your location in please EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES.COM

Astelia nervosa "Westland" photos. This plant holds some of the most beautiful foliage colour available in a New Zealand native plant. With innovative landscape design solutions nzlandscapes landscape designers guarantee to design and construct for you a stylish, landscaped garden. Using the finest NZ plant varieties mixed with interesting exotics, NZLANDSCAPES work to give you a timeless garden style packed with colour and texture while remaining low maintenance. Click here for a FREE LANDSCAPE PLANTING PLAN . Driveway planting design by nzlandscapes.com landscape designers, Auckland New Zealand. EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES.COM

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Before you stamp on that bug, remember they are part of the global life cycle and give balance to our environment. The praying mantis, Miomantis caffran, is shown in this photo eating the European wasp, one of New Zealand's most disliked garden pests. We can clearly see the benefits of some of the unusual looking bugs / insects in our gardens, and yes she devoured the whole wasp! Both species shown are introduced pests into NZ, and were able to survive very well in the New Zealand climate. Encouraging more Mantis into your garden will surely control the wasp numbers along with other plant growth inhibiting pests in your landscaped gardens.

Residential NZ landscaping, Dry River Bed Design. New Zealand landscaping plants introduced into your gardens provide elements for structural garden styles and low maintenance garden designs. River bed stones for landscape styles NZ, NZLANDSCAPES.COM New Zealand, NZ, landscaper based in Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand. Specialising in landscape design for residential and commercial customers. Our team are highly experienced in all aspects of landscape design and landscaping products, we offer free online advice on landscaping, planting ideas, plant types and garden styles. To contact one of the NZLANDSCAPES.COM team, you can EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES.COM here.

NZLANDSCAPES.COM Landscape designers, Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand. Landscaping trees, Agathis australis NZ Kauri tree. The Kauri is the most majestic of New Zealand Flora. Towering above the tree canopy at times, the kauri will established fast in a site that is dappled shade to mostly sun positioning, with naturally compost rich, free draining soil . To speak with a NZLANDSCAPES representative about your soil suitability to establish New Zealand native plants please EMAIL NZLANDSCAPES.COM

Landscape designers in Auckland New Zealand, NZLANDSCAPES, will create for you detailed landscape sketches that mirror the final garden styles. With lifelike sketches, starting with black and white base sketches, the living feel of the landscape design can be realised. To contact a NZLANDSCAPES designer feel free to phone or email us here

Coastal plants for New Zealand Gardens. Pseudopanax lessonii or 'Coastal five finger' has a waxy protective coating on the leaf that helps shield the plant from harsh salt air and coastal conditions. Pseudopanax lessonii is often used as a 'nursery' plant in the landscape garden, this means using the plant as a fast growing shelter species to provide protection for slower growing, less hardy plants. Plant Pseudopanax lessonii in a growing position where it will get sun most of the day, provide enough space to grow to a mature height of several meters. Prune and remove lower branches on the maturing plant, this will encourage an eventual evergreen overhead canopy that will provide solid summer shade. Pseudopanax lessonii can be managed at a hedging height, some plants will hollow out in the center after 5 years or so and will require replacing. Plants can also be susceptible to sooty blotch and may be treated with copper oxychloride. Planting to allow constant air flow a...

Covering garden walls, pergolas and garden structures with lush, colourful vines and climbing plants is an ideal way to achieve fast landscaping results with minimal cost using nz grown plants. Ideally use plants that suit your particular climate and are grown or sourced local to your area. Landscaping plants will thrive in conditions that are ideal for the plant. New Zealand gardens and landscapes are ideal for a range of both native or exotic, deciduous and evergreen climbers. To speak with a NZLANDSACPES.COM landscape designer about your individual landscaping requirements please email here.

Indoor Plants and sub-tropical plants can be fussy and may require individual soil and climatic conditions to prevail over the colder winter season. Indoor plants will generally require less watering over the colder winter period and prefer warm air temperatures to keep soil warm and plants growing with excellent health. Test your plants soil with the back of your hand, if it feels damp on the surface then watering is not usually necessary. Usually watering indoor plants once every 2 weeks is fine, some fleshy leaf plant varieties will always use more water so this is a general rule. Plants will generally use less nutrient over the winter period. Move cold sensitive plants, if possible, into rooms within your home that are well lit and warm. Take care with placement of indoor heaters and fire places. Try not to burn your plants or lead the plants soil to become dried out in a dry climatic situation. To discuss your indoor planting requirements contact NZLANDSCAPES here .

Most gardens in New Zealand have perennials hiding somewhere within the shadows or recesses of the landscape. Protecting and caring for perennials over the cold winter periods can be very successful with some simple easy to follow gardening advice below: - Bring indoors any tender culinary herbs you have within your garden that you may want to keep from frost burn, place the containers somewhere with good light, provide free drainage and water in-frequently over the winter season. - Cover any plants within your garden that are tender to frost with frost cloth, Citrus when young in particular. Some lower growing perennials such as begonia will survive a hard frost using straw as a frost cover. Cover with a layer 100 mm thick, if possible remove the straw during the sunlight hours. - A gentle hose or sprinkler cover of all plants in a heavy frost can break any ice, WATER BEFORE SUNRISE!!! This may help avoid plants from 'melting'. - Shade cloth or weed mat can substitute as a s...

In Flanders’ fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place, and in the sky The larks still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead, short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders’ fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe, To you from failing hands we throw The Torch: be yours to hold it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders’ fields.

Landscaping in New Zealand and potentially worldwide may never be the same again! New Zealand gardens and landscapes may be greatly enhanced by promoting timely plant flowering. Palmerston North AgResearch team have been working on a project involving a plant spray that triggers plants into flowering like a switch. The plant spray starts or kick starts the plants normal flowering process but does not speed up the usual flowering periods of plants. The spray being developed will also be used to slow down or stop plants flowering at all. The benefits could be beneficial to both the cut flower market, fruit / vege industry, landscape design, landscapers and gardeners planting options. To read more on the subject please follow the link provided here .

Just how green are the New Zealand landscapes? This is a question often asked by people yet to visit Aotearoa, 'Land of the long white cloud'. It is sometimes a little overwhelming for visitors arriving in the country via Auckland, with the vast amounts of green shades within our landscape, the colour play on the waters with reflections of blue-white silk skies. Often quoted as being the 'Silver City', Auckland city also has some very green sights to be seen. The photo taken yesterday, Autumn Vista Views, are framed with native nz and exotic introduced species. The image is a part of a growing set that have been captured through the changing seasons from a private residence in the suburbs of West Auckland, North Island, New Zealand. The residence is situated on a busy through road in a built up suburban area of Auckland. From the photos you can see there are no other houses to be seen, even amongst the busy hussle of the steadily growing city. Proving the point, Yes, ev...

Taxodium distichum, Swamp Cypress, shown here at a young age, this tree is resisting some extremely dry landscaping conditions in West Auckland. A useful tree in wet growing conditions, even into the water line of ponds, shown here the swamp cypress can go to some very dry extremes also. A beautiful specimen tree, providing excellent dappled shade in summer. NZLANDSCAPES landscape design ideas. NZ landscaping photos.

Banksia integrifolia is a landscaping tree with stunning displays of candle shaped flowers during the Summer / Autumn months. Suitable to many growing situations, particularly dry areas, the Banksia will be a pleasing addition to gardens from a young age right through to maturity. NZLANDSCAPES Photos. Landscape design ideas for New Zealand gardens. NZLANDSCAPES Landscape designers.

Landscaping in New Zealand with exotic plant species will provide some unexpected garden delight during the cooler Autumn growing season. When roses are about to finish and annuals are heading to seed there are some magic plants to fill in the sometimes dreary NZ garden. Shown here is a Banksia, origins Australian, a bright addition to any New Zealand landscape. Known as the coastal Banksia it is hardy in low moisture situations, can tolerate some extreme weather and is bountiful in candle shaped flowers. The leaves are dark green glossy top and silvery undersides. The total mature tree height can reach 15m+ so can eventually become quite an impressive addition to any garden.

An Autumn landscape can be both stunning and vibrant for the changing of leaf season in New Zealand. Landscape designers work with introduced plant varieties to colour charge the usually dry, colourless New Zealand landscape. Auckland Landscapers NZLANDSCAPES work to combine exotic plants into the natural environment. A designer is available to speak to you about exotic plant varieties in the New Zealand landscape. Email 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. Additional aspects of the landscaping plans can be achieved along a defined time line as the landscape implementation schedule states. 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. All are taken into account and outlined on the landscape base plan. To send email to NZLANDSCAPES follow the link above or CLICK HERE to use your mail client.

The ever changing New Zealand landscape comes to life during the autumn months to reveal a landscape rich with vibrant colour. New Zealand is the perfect growing climate for highly attractive exotic plant species and introduced plant species have become a dominant feature amongst the New Zealand landscape. Deciduous fruit, some perennials, ornamental, shelter and erosion controlling trees were introduced into the country with the early European settlers. Tree varieties introduced into home gardens were more towards the fruiting variety with the main emphasis on edible varieties. Shrubs and shelter trees were introduced to protect animal stocks from the sometimes harsh New Zealand environment and vast amounts of European trees were introduced for public parks, street plantings and large specimen gardens. The exotic species have become so much a part of the New Zealand landscapes that the foreign visitor may indeed feel very much at home. Many New Zealand home gardeners and landscapers c...

NZ Landscape design. NZLANDSCAPES example of a landscape Master Plan. Shown here is only part of the master plan. The full landscape plan includes concept drawings with sketches, perspective sketches, planting plans, construction drawings for driveway deck and paths. The essence of the landscape design developed during the clients many walks within New Zealand forest. With design consultation, plans then evolved around this theme. Exotic plant species were also introduced to give plant foliage drama with deep colour. Native river stone within the garden keeps a constant balance with the lush flora. If you are interested in NZLANDSCAPES designing for your garden you can email here

King Fern. Marattia salicina. NZ landscaping design solutions for wet zones Auckland New Zealand. Shown here the soil is free draining but moist. The King ferns are slightly protected by a overhead garden structure, reducing the amout of light the plants receive and providing the plants with ideal conditions to survive the sometimes very hot Auckland climate. Shown here the King fern on mass is quite a sight for gardeners and landscapers alike.

Tree Ferns reach for the sky. Shown here situated on the shaded side of a steep wet bank. With moist soil conditions the NZ Native plants are robust and healthy in the Auckland City Gardens. NZLANDSCAPES landscapers based in Auckland, New Zealand, provide landscaping ideas for the home gardener, garden designer or landscaping professional. We offer within NZ and anywhere worldwide landscaping and landscape garden advice, garden layout concept plans / sketches, planting concepts, planting plans, and landscape Master plans. With design solutions for any climatic zone our landscape design team plan to suit any growing situation. We can suggest for you the best plants to plant in a wet / damp growing situation, dry / arid zones, indoor or glass house climates, office and workspaces, restaurants or retail goods / commercial gardens. Every landscaped garden has specific requirements and garden plantings will vary depending on the local climate. Our landscaping advice or plans could be inst...

New Zealand Native Plants have been used in Residential and Commercial gardens by NZLANDSCAPES Auckland landscapers along with keen gardeners, landscape designers and landscaping construction teams throughout New Zealand for many years. Now NZ native plants are extensively grown in both private and public gardens throughout the world. Influencing landscape designers in New Zealand for many years the up coming season's new release plants are always awaited with great interest. With predominantly green foliage the garden is evergreen and lush when incorporating NZ natives into your current landscape or any future landscaping plans. With a huge variety of native NZ Grasses, Trees, Shrubs and Groundcovers there are sometimes too many varieties to choose from. NZLANDSCAPES Auckland landscape designers are available to help you with any landscaping enquiries within New Zealand and online gardening advice throughout the world. With a suitable plant for most climatic zones, New Zealand pla...

'World renowned landscape architect to tour NZ next month One of the world’s leading landscape architecture experts Joan Nassauer is speaking in New Zealand next month. She arrives in Auckland on February 28 for a three week study, research and speaking tour jointly hosted by the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects and the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. Nassauer, from Michigan USA, is the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects’ (NZILA) second Education Foundation scholar. She will speak in New Zealand cities and towns throughout March. Nassauer is a world renowned landscape architect with particular expertise in and passion for ecology and landscapes. She is Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. She has written many books and articles and specialises in landscape ecology and design perceptions.' scoop.co.nz Click on link to see full new article at Scoop....

Fireworks display Part 1. Auckland Anniversary Day celebrations, Auckland Viaduct harbour. Filmed by NZLANDSCAPES landscape designers New Zealand. new zealand landscaping