Auckland Garden Design Fest 2022 Brochure

t last, we can welcome you back to the Auckland Garden Design Fest. Come and be inspired. After a 3-year covid-induced hiatus we present a wonderful array of diverse gardens in style and size for our sixth festival. Eighteen gardens all designed by professional designers, to showcase the breadth of talent we have in Auckland.

There are courtyard-sized inner-city gardens, terraces, sweeping lawns and gullies in older suburbs, richly treed gardens, heritage houses, gardens new and mature. There are lush gardens, quirky ones, gardens full of co lour. Some old favourites have been included but most gardens have not been open to the public before. This is a great opportunity to see what imagination can accomplish in the creative partnerships between client and designer, irrespective of budget. The warm Auckland climate allows an extraordinary range of plant life to flourish, from temperate

to subtropical and all these gardens exhibit the depth and breadth of vegetation on the isthmus, in a range of settings - coastal, lakeside, suburban and tight streetscapes. We are lucky to have such generous garden owners, happy to allow visitors into their private domains and to them a huge thank you. All proceeds are going to five wonderful and deserving charities; Lifeline Aotearoa, KidsCan, Garden to Table, Oke and Rotary Club of Newmarket Charitable Trust Come along and meet the garden designers who will be in their garden creations to answer questions and explain their choices and rationale. Join us in this spring celebration of garden beauty and the wealth of talent on show.

Garden Design Society of New Zealand and Rotary Newmarket.

OUR PROUD SUPPORTERS ORGANISERS

The Garden Design Society of New Zealand was established in 2002 by a group of enthusiastic profes sionals working in garden design practice and education.GDSNZ’s aims include: Encouraging and ad vancing the practice of garden design/Furthering the teaching and study of garden design/Establishing itself as the professional body supporting and representing its members who work in this industry.

The Auckland Garden DesignFest is a perfect fit for achieving those aims and GDSNZ is thrilled to be playing its part in raising awareness of the all the charities supported by this event.

The Rotary Club of Newmarket was formed in 1945 and since then its members have been involved in many community projects similar to the Auckland Garden DesignFest.

Rotary’s main function as an organisation is to provide its members with the opportunity to be of service to the community either locally or internationally. There are over 30,000 Rotary clubs worldwide provid ing substantial benefits to mankind. The Auckland Garden DesignFest is a project that will provide much needed funds to the selected char ities so they can have the greatest positive influence for their communities. The Rotary Club of Newmar ket is privileged to be associated with the Auckland Garden DesignFest.

VISITOR INFORMATION

Please observe the following courtesies:

• We regret that children under 12 cannot be admitted (unless they are young enough to be carried).

• Gardens are open from 10am-4pm each day. Please respect these hours.

• Photography of gardens for commercial or media purposes is NOT permitted. Sharing of pho tos on social media is encouraged.

Tag #aucklandgardendesignfest

• Animals are not allowed to enter the gardens, except for service animals.

• Wear flat shoes and watch your step.

• Please do not touch the plants or take any part of them. Plant lists and personal identification of plants will be provided where possible.

• Keep to the paths and take care to avoid damaging lawns and foliage.

• Respect the privacy of our remarkably generous owners. Parking is usually

available in nearby streets and gardens are conveniently grouped in clusters often within walking distance of each other in some cases.

• Please do not picnic, litter, smoke or consume alcohol in any garden.

IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE

While every precaution has been taken, please note that it is a condition of entry to the gardens that you assume all responsibility for your own safety, the safety of those in your care, and of your possessions.

Our diverse selection of gardens this year contain many interesting features. Use this helpful reference

to ensure that you don’t miss out on what you are particularly interested in.

Productive/Edible Gardens

Swimming Pool/Spa Gardens

1,4,5,6,7,9,12,13,16,17,18,19

Sub Tropical/Native Gardens

1,2,3,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,15,17,18

19

Chicken Coop Gardens 12

Courtyard Gardens 1,3,5,8,13,15,17,18

Perennial Gardens 7,11,12,13,15,17,18

Art/Sculpture Gardens

1,2,8,9,11,13,17,19

Fireplace/Pit Gardens 4,6,12,15

Water features/Ponds Gardens 1,3,14,16,17,18

GARDENS MAP

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RESTROOMS Gardens showing this colour on the map have restrooms available for garden visitors.

ask the volunteers for directions

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSGardens showing this colour on the map DO NOT HAVE SUITABLE ACCESS

Gardens showing this colour on the map have LIMITED

ACCESS

showing this colour on the map have WHEELCHAIR ACCESS

This year we are proud to be partnering with Eat My Lunch – a catering company with a difference. Every picnic/ lunch you Buy, they Give a lunch to a Kiwi kid in need. How awesome is that?

Several options are available including picnics and salads. Simply go to the ticketing page on our website and choose your food option, which garden you would like to collect it from and on which day. We’ve got four gardens to choose from, two of which you can eat your lunch in; Cotter House – Garden 15 and Dawson & Co – Garden 19. Pre-orders close on Wednesday 24th November 2022. Food and beverages will be available for purchase throughout the weekend from the coffee cart at Cotter House – Garden 15. Dawson & Co – Garden 19 are offering complimentary tea and coffee all weekend.

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A layered garden which descends steeply from street to lakeside. The garden wraps around a sturdy 1970s house and pool, with the piece de resistance being the planting and path directly above and beside Lake Pupuke. Plant design by Kirsten Sach Landscape Design & Adam Evans from Urbis Landscape over a 3 year period of gradual extension and integration, has resulted in a rich mix of sub-tropical and temperate plants, both clipped and natural, as one progresses to the water’s edge.

A whimsical, edible and subtropical garden fronts 5 Winn Rd. Vegetable beds and huge drifts of Beaucarnea recurvata, (Ponytail palms), surrounded by mass plantings of unusual blue succulents, draecena, ligularia, senecio, aloes and agaves. The back garden has a dreamy feel with nikau, feijoa, aloes, bromeliads, black cordyline, cycads, medinea and a Brazilian tree fern. Tillandsia useneoides (Spanish moss) drips from the trees while side beds are punctu ated with large corten woks. An orange pyrostegia venista hangs over the veranda.

Installation: Trish Bartleet Landscape Design

Led by Penny Cliffin former lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Unitec and Anna-Maria Morris, qualified landscape design er. Both are long serving and active members of the Garden Design Society, and love sharing gardens with fellow garden enthusiasts. The bus tour will visit half the gardens on Saturday and the other half on Sunday. Numbers are limited, so please book early through iTicket to avoid disappointment www.iticket.co.nz/events/2022/nov/auckland-garden-design fest

The tour meeting point will be at 9am for a 9.15am departure each day from the Unitec Institute of Technology campus, Carrington Rd, Mt Albert. There is parking on site, and a major bus route along Carrington Rd. Detailed site map will be emailed to tourers. The coach will return to Unitec around 4.30pm (please be aware that traffic conditions on the day make this an estimate only, so we advise not to make any arrangements, such as flight bookings, too tight!). At the last garden we will round off the day with an opportunity for an informal walk around a garden, glass of wine in hand.

Cost: $175 for one day, and $330 for those registering for both days. This price includes a delicious picnic lunch, refreshments, coach travel, tour guides, entry fees and garden notes.

Enquiries: Penny Cliffin - pcliffin@gmail.com 021 488 000 Anna-Maria Morris - morrisannamaria@gmail.com 021 063 9111.

Keep an eye on the website for updates - www.gardendesignfest. co.nz

Due to the terrain of some gardens we are unable to accommo date delegates with wheelchairs and walking frames. The tour may be varied or cancelled as circumstances change. Refer to the iTicket website for conditions of cancellation. We reserve the right to vary or cancel the tour should circumstances change beyond our control. Please remember to wear sturdy shoes and to bring sun and rain wear - just in case!

A ’rumpty ‘private garden was the client’s vision and Trish Bartleet worked with architect Pip Cheshire and ardent gardener Aileen Cheshire to create just that. From a productive sunny front garden, stone pavers beneath nikau lead to the outdoor courtyard for entertaining, with its the small pool. Steps rise to an enchanting wild garden entwined with unusual plant combinations; a place for contemplation and solitude. Small spaces which demonstrate the ability to create magic even in such tight inner city locations.

Installation: Trish Bartleet Landscape Design

This more formal garden features input from garden designers Trish Bartleet and Damian Wendelborn. Green and structured, the garden includes a series of well proportioned spaces that sit com fortably around the heritage house. The design delivers well connected areas which read as crisp and clean. Pared back planting favours form and foliage over flowers, while traditionally inspired detailing and generous marble pool copings resonate with the heritage architecture. Pots and planters provide further texture and form as well as opportunities for seasonal displays.

Installation: URBANite Landscape Design & Trish Bartleet Landscape Design

Installation & maintenance: Urbis Landscapes

Designer: Adam Evans

Designer: Trish Bartleet / Sal Gordon

Winn Rd, Freemans Bay

Designer:

Bartleet

Designer: Damian Wendelborn / Trish Bartleet

Lifeline Aotearoa is a charity dedicated to reducing distress & saving lives by providing safe, accessible, effective, professional & innovative services. We have been helping New Zealanders in distress and crisis for almost 60 years. Our free helplines are answered by our highly trained team 24 hours per day, 365 days of the year.

We help an average of 15-20 people each day at high risk of suicide. We receive over 10,000 calls & receive & send over 30,000 texts each month from people of all ages and ethnicities who are struggling with a wide range of issues. We receive no government funding for these helplines & it is only because of generous donations from incredible kiwis that we can be there to answer each call. Head to www.lifeline.org.nz to find out more

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Designer: Rachael Farthing

KidsCan is New Zealand’s leading charity dedicated to helping Kiwi kids affected by poverty. We believe that education is a child’s ticket out of poverty, giving them the opportunity for a better future. We partner with over 850 schools and 100 early childhood centres across Aotearoa to give the 1 in 5 Kiwi kids affected by poverty the essentials they need to learn.  The school programmes provide nutritious breakfast, snack and lunch foods to 40,000 hungry school kids every day plus new fleece-lined jackets and sturdy shoes. Our ECE programme provides pre-schoolers with a jacket, shoes and socks and freshly prepared meals daily.  None of this would be possible without the support of generous Kiwis whose dona tions help ensure no Kiwi kid goes without. www.kidscan.org.nz

Oke provides Kiwi kids with the opportunity to learn life and social skills by introducing productive gardens into schools. Through our Growing A Future program, Oke delivers a garden to each school, enabling the kids, teachers and local community to get growing. The garden is built through a community working bee (in just ONE day) and includes all that is required to make it sustainable; raised beds, greenhouse, composting solutions, kids tools, teacher tools, irrigation, fruit trees etc.  Each Growing a Future project for a school is worth over $20,000. Oke works all year round to raise the funds so our ‘Growing a Future’ gardens don’t cost the school a cent! www.oke.org.nz

Garden to Table is a charitable trust that empowers tamariki across Aotearoa to grow, har vest, prepare and share fresh food. Their programme enables schools and kura throughout the motu to deliver, embed and sustain impactful food education. By taking learning out of the classroom, they help Kiwi kids develop essential life skills and build resilience. These positive impacts radiate far beyond the school gates - to whānau, the wider community, and the plan et - ultimately enabling a more sustainable, equitable and climate-friendly social and econom ic future. Garden to Table’s dream is ‘for every child in Aotearoa to have the opportunity and resources to grow and share their own fresh kai as part of daily life’. www.gardentotable.org.nz

A special project designed by Babylon Gardens for an architect (Maude Design) and family, to complement the modern extension to a heritage villa. From a simple cobbled drive, the beautifully-laid creamy crazy-paving stone path leads to the rear garden, a pool, bespoke fence and reused brick. The 170 sqm garden also makes room for growing vegetables and a lawn. Decisions around surfaces and hard landscaping for the whole site were based on adding warmth and avoiding severe edges between spaces.

Landscape Installation: Babylon Gardens

The brief for the rear garden was to create a family friendly usable outdoor space that needed to accommodate rather a lot of func tional requirements in a relatively small space. A swimming pool, dining terrace, lawn, firebowl terrace and edible garden were aspects of the brief. A carefully proportioned and simple composi tion seemed to work best to achieve a spacious garden which could include the programmatic requirements of the client’s brief. Privacy planting coupled with seasonality, texture and layering informed the planting design which combines evergreen hedges with some deciduous trees and shrubs.

Installation: Andy Hamilton Studio

Rotary Newmarket is a volunteer group of community-minded individuals who participate in a number of activities to enhance the lives of others. Fundraising is an important part of all these activities. The Rotary Club of Newmarket Charitable Trust has been established to account for funds raised and the distribution of these funds.

All funds raised through and received from the Auckland Garden DesignFest will be allocated to child-specific activities.

A Richard Neville design, developed in collaboration with Studio Naomi Rushmer, is a project titled ‘Connection’ and explores the relationship between architecture, gardens and people. The garden is designed as an extension of the home and unites the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture. The planting design operates at the intersection of native, perennial and tropical plant palettes. Evergreen foliage provides structure and texture year round, while perennials offer seasonal change and surprise. The garden offers togetherness, relaxation and environmental intimacy.

Designer, owner Jenny Pullar embraced as a sustainable design challenge to work with existing situation including 1960’s house with brown stained deck railing. In the interconnected garden rooms, colour is key-pink & orange flowers in entry courtyard. From the deck Cotinus arch over broad steps into main garden with purple flowers & foliage plus green & cream with mosaic stepping stones in a no mow fine fescue lawn. There is also an orchard area and a secret courtyard.

Installation: Andrew Collins Mosaics: Joy Glasgow

Installation: Richard Neville Design Studio

Address: 16 Franklin Rd, Freemans Bay

Designer: Richard Neville

Address: 94 Kiwi Rd, Pt Chevalier

Designer: Jenny Pullar

Address: 23 Esmeralda Ave, Avondale

Designer: Andy Hamilton

Address: 48 John St, Ponsonby

Our new concept store is changing the landscape of garden centres with a number of ground-breaking and interactive features that are a must-see!

Sustainability is at the heart of the design of our store with locally made fixtures that use sustainable timber, solar panels which provide the entirety of the store’s daytime energy, irrigation systems that incorporate water reuse and new plastic recycling initiatives.

With a carefully curated range of seasonal plants, inspirational display zones, a potting up area and plant experts on hand to help you every step of the way, Kings Plant Barn Stonefields is everything you love about Kings, plus so much more.

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This quirky and personable garden, designed by Barbara Garett, evolved over 10 years. The rocky undulating site and pre-existing concrete structures determined its form. From a jungle of vegeta tion, selected perimeter trees were kept to provide screening.

The small formal front garden features a persimmon and simple mass planting of textural greens. The sloping back garden is a delightful surprise, a mixture of bananas, plum, citrus, persimmon, feijoa and guava, sub-tropicals in pots and mounded rosemary, bay and hydrangea.

The restoration of this unique Mt Eden site by Barbara Garrett, is an ongoing project for the present owners. The gracious turn of the century villa was built high on the end of a Maungawhau lava flow, creating rocky challenges for building outdoor spaces and new gardens.

Design decisions were heavily influenced by the existing landforms and large native trees. Mitigating the towering appearance of the house and improving entrance levels to the garden and house were the main priorities.

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This garden perched atop a hill, is brimming with personality. Designed by Val Puxty in collaboration with the ceramic sculptor owner, the garden is quixotic and bright.

A mix of natives and sub-tropicals, old trees and perennial bor ders, the site takes full advantage of the treed surrounding urban landscape and is a visual delight. The garden features formal and clipped, wild and woodland in unexpected combinations, big bold colours and lush cool greens sprinkled with the artist owner’s sculptural creations.

A marriage between old and new this garden weaves an original workers cottage with contemporary architecture through a bold use of natives in biomorphic forms. This garden is for those who want a city chic that enriches the landscape and native ecology as well as being robust for family life that includes children, chick ens and a beloved dog. The paving around the old Totara is all permeable to allow water flow through the root structure and the protection of old trees as well as planting of stands of beautiful Rewa rewa brings additional birdlife to the garden.

Landscape Installation: Barb Garrett Planting Design

Installation: Val Puxty Landscape Design

Installation: HardscapeSoftscape - Xanthe White Design

Landscape Installation: Barb Garrett Planting Design

Designer: Barb Garrett Address: 92 Calgary St, Mt Eden

Designer: Val Puxty

20 Atanga Ave, Mt Eden

Designer: Xanthe White Design

38 Valley Rd, Mt Eden

Designer: Barb Garrett

106 Grange Rd, Mt Eden

An established formal garden lies hidden on the hillside below Maungawhau/ Mt Eden, created by owner & director of Gardenia Design. The verdant sheltered garden complements the 1880 villa surrounded by majestic old trees, adding to the sense of grandeur on arrival. Striking King ferns, nikau, blechnum silver lady and ligu laria embellish the path leading to the front of the house where the pool sits perched with fabulous views out to the West, framed by clipped hedging and lush lawns.

Installation: Gardenia Design Pool Shafer Design: Installation Frontier Pools

Great skill is clearly demonstrated at this abundant urban terrace, designed and maintained by owner Jo Hamilton and husband Mark. Trees provide an overhead layer and sense of enclosure and work to separate the spaces for food production, dining, relaxation and entertaining-holm oaks, bay, Cercis, Albizzia, Lagerstromia, and the rare African Schrebera alata. Plentiful attractive pots hold perennials and citrus while the vegetable garden provides year round food. Jo is also responsible for the charming courtyard planting outside the aparment.

This heritage house sits at the top of St Vincent Ave with grand views to the surrounding landscape. A subtropical garden leads to to the house which will be open for viewing, courtesy of the own ers. The original house was built by merchant Thomas Newman in 1847. In 1862 it was replaced with a grander, Victorian gothic style house and ballroom.

On the lawn will be market stalls plus tea and coffee - a great place to eat your picnic lunch.

A series of lush and luxuriant garden rooms linked by stone paths was developed through close collaboration between garden de signer Geoffrey Marshall and the owner, Melanie Hollingsworth. The garden surrounds an expanded 1950s modernist house with skilful use of existing features - a stand of giant bamboo, a stream, a woodland copse, stone walls, all of which anchor the new garden. Intense dialogue about colour and form has created a richly detailed result to ensure year round interest.

Installation: Craftsman Gardener Services

Installation: Joanna Hamilton Landscape Design

Designer: Rachel Thomson Address: 5 Bellevue Road, Mt Eden

Designer: Jo Hamilton Address: 219/23 Edwin St, Mt Eden

Cotter House Address: 2 Saint Vincent Ave, Remuera

Installation: Hard Landscaping - Garden Transformations Soft Landscaping - Geoffrey Marshall

Designer: Geoffrey Marshall Address: 109 Portland Road, Remuera

Ash Berendt

022 1308 156

a.bb@ashberendt.co.nz

Ben Shearer 021 801 623 ben@shearerdesign.co.nz www.shearerdesign.co.nz

Concrete Pool Systems

021 923 602 todd@concretepoolsystems.co.nz www.concretepoolsystems

Craftsman Gardener Services Ltd 09 4163050

021 923 485 info@craftsmangardener.co.nz www.craftsmangardener.co.nz

Deb Hardy Landscapes & Design 021 815 151 debbie.hardy@republic.com www.debhardylandscapes.com

Gardens of Evan Evan Veza 021 738 267 gardensofevan@gmail.com

Ministry of Ground

DESIGNER DIRECTORY

021 213 5087 dan@ministryofground.co.nz www.ministryofground.co.nz

Natural Habitats Landscapes 09 970 3480 info@naturalhabitats.co.nz www.naturalhabitats.co.nz

Neville Design Studio 022 406 1054 richard@nevilledesignstudio.co.nz www. nevilledesignstudio.co.nz

Nikau Landscapes Dave Paddy 028 046 4528 dave@nikaulandscapes.co.nz www.nikaulandscapes.co.nz

Premium Landscapes colin@premiumlandscapes.co.nz

Pitch Construction 021 0308071 andrew@pitchlitd.co.nz

Second Nature Gardens 09 524 6672 info@secondnature.co.nz www.secondnature.co.nz Silverfern Landcapes 09 3605382

Gerard: 021 407 154 silver-fern@xtra.co.nz www.silver-fern.co.nz

Strass Landscape Developers Craig Steiner 09 358 3303 admin@strass.co.nz www.strass.co.nz

Tranquility pools 021 904085 www.tranquilitypools.co.nz

Trish Bartleet Landscape Design 027 653 9177 bartleets@xtra.co.nz www.trishbartleet.com

URBANite Landscape Design Damian Wendelborn 021 284 1177 gardens@urbanite.net.nz www. urbanite.net.nz

Urbis Landscapes Adam Evans 0210 251 9609 adam@urbislandscapes.co.nz www.urbislandscapes.co.nz

Val Puxty Landscape Design

027 659 9053 puxty@xtra.co.nz www.valpuxtylandscapedesign.com

Xanthe White Design 09 300 7135 021 270 0065 info@xwd.co.nz www.xanthewhitedesign.co.nz

Academy Tiles +61 2 9436 3566 info@academytiles.com.au www.academytiles.com.au

Aqua Technnics - Pool and Spa Centre 09 837 5195 sales@aquatechnics.co.nz www.aquatechnics.co.nz www.lawnmastery.co.nz

Nestled down a quiet right-of-way is one of Remuera’s most “secret” gardens. The picturesque setting borrows landscape from both neighbouring St Kentigerns School grounds to the east, with its large old trees and sea views of Hobson Bay to the north. The garden was developed over time following the house’s construction in 1997. Alexander McClew designed the new cen trepiece, a two-tiered pond and waterfall. Old moss-covered and gnarly stones were specially selected for a natural, weathered ageold appearance.

Installation: Alex McClew Landscape Design

A single Cercis placed in front of the striking red house is the en trance to the garden. Beautifully made wooden steps lead through the herb and vegetable garden beneath palms, cordyline and subtropicals to the main lawn.

A simple swathe of green complements the strong colours of the house. A tall trimmed hedge of titoki and palms frame the pool and the garden has a sheltered intimate feel surrounded by neigh bourhood trees.

Installation: Ministry of Ground

Catch your breath and refresh yourself with a complimentary hot or cold beverage courtesy of our premier sponsor, Dawson & Co at their spacious Parnell Store.

While you are there stroll around the showroom and be inspired by this season’s exciting new range of outdoor furniture from Tribu, DEDON and Cove Outdoor.

COCKTAIL HOUR

Garden visitors are invited to meet at Dawson & Co between 3-5pm on Saturday 26th November for a complimentary gin and tonic courtesy of Pernod Ricard

Designer: Dan McKay

Designer: Alex McClew

NODI SOFA SYSTEM, AMANU LOUNGE CHAIR, DUNES SIDE TABLE