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The planting in the tropical butterfly house at Butterfly Creek was refurbished to provide nectar flowers and host plants for butterflies as well, of course, as lots of flowers, foliage and scent interest for the visitors to this very popular attraction. New planting included many tropical species, planted in the ground within the heated house, as well as epiphytes attached to the gabion-clad structural pillars.

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Tropical bromeliads are well suited to the hot and humid atmosphere within the house
Tropical bromeliads are well suited to the hot and humid atmosphere within the house

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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.