Albany Lakes
By NICK ROBINSON
Nick was a member of the design team for this project, providing design ideas and detailing for the various edges to the three lakes and the planting design throughout the park. The design was based on the history of the Albany area, particularly the use of trees for food by all the cultures that have inhabited the area.
Traditional Maori food trees such as karaka and kahikatea were included as well as the orchard species that typify early European Albany. The lake edges were carefully designed to allow a large freeboard for the detention lake at the same time as varied and close access to the water by people. The primary intention was to make this not so much a stormwater pond but a lake accessible and enjoyable for people and wildlife.
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Nick Robinson ProAccGDSNZ, NZILA(Reg)
Nick is a landscape and garden designer with over twenty years experience of designing, creating and managing private and public gardens in New Zealand, UK and USA . He is also a design teacher and lecturer and is the author of the Planting Design Handbook (published by Routledge, third edition 2016) along with many articles on design and planting.
A special interest is beautiful and bio-diverse design for ecology and wildlife in the garden as well as in the wider environment. Nick's gardens are created as 'pollinator paradises' providing foraging and shelter for the many beneficial insects that visit gardens.
Nick has a HND in Landscape and Horticulture Technology from Askham Bryan, York, UK, a Masters in Landscape Design from University of Sheffield UK, and is chartered member of the Landscape Institute, a registered member of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, and an Profesionally Accredited Member of the Garden Design Society of New Zealand.
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