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By NICK ROBINSON

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Nick redesigned public bedding display gardens in south and east Auckland to replace the traditional bedding, which was changed three times a year at considerable expense, with permanent perennial planting of colourful flowering and foliage plants that give strong display qualities and reduce costs. Work has included all design from initial concepts to planting plans and site supervision. A number of these are now well established and illustrate an approach to using perennials that is well suited to residential sites.

Detail of meadow planting with dietes and gaura

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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.