The site was very narrow and angled, but the house design created not only a delightful home, but also excellent opportunities for garden making. The rear garden includes a small lawn and features a two large lava outcrops. The front gardens comprise the approach to the house up a series of stepped decks, and under a pergola to be clad in Mandevilla and Thunbergia vines. The client was keen to make the best of Central Auckland's very warm, sheltered and humid climate by using sub-tropical planting character which harmonised well with the architecture and building materials.
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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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