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Wet timber decking and basalt paving meet native planting outside a Christchurch home
Landscape design

A clear plan for the whole site.

Resolve how the garden works, moves and feels before construction begins.

Design before decoration

Set the levels. Then shape the life around them.

A useful landscape plan begins with the constraints: the fall across the property, where water travels, how the house opens outside and what should stay.

From there, layout, materials and planting can be developed together. The result is a design that can guide a coordinated build or stand as a clear brief for another contractor.

What this can include

  • Site analysis and measured layout
  • Levels, circulation and outdoor-room planning
  • Hardscape and material direction
  • Planting plans and seasonal structure
  • Construction details for key junctions
From site visit to resolved plan

Design the ground first.

  1. 01

    Read the site

    Architecture, levels, sun, shelter, movement and what is worth retaining establish the brief.

  2. 02

    Set the structure

    Terraces, paths, gathering spaces and planting zones are resolved as one plan.

  3. 03

    Detail the build

    Materials, planting and key junctions are documented clearly enough to price and construct.

Three planted terraces rise from a rectangular lawn to a timber and brick home
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See it at Hillside House

The project story shows how levels, materials and planting were resolved together on a sloping residential site.

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