Grounds thatcompound.

Landscape architecture for premium private estates and commercial developments. Designed once, installed properly, stewarded for decades.

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Discipline
Master-plan landscape
Service life
30-year horizon
Maintenance
Named lead horticulturist
Native-led
Pōhutukawa · Harakeke · Nīkau

Coordinated with the architecture from the first site survey.

01Principle

A garden is not decoration. It is the slowest-moving asset on the property — and the one that most rewards patience.

02Capabilities

Four practices, one estate's lifetime.

Design, installation, and stewardship coordinated under a single accountable lead.

01
Master-plan architecture
Site-scale landscape master-planning that coordinates with the architectural brief from day one — not an afterthought.
02
Native-led planting
Pohutukawa, harakeke, nikau, kowhai — species selected to thrive in the microclimate and to deepen the estate's connection to place.
03
Hardscape, water & lighting
Bluestone, basalt, weathered timber, integrated water features and concealed lighting — engineered for thirty-year service life.
04
Grounds stewardship
Ongoing maintenance contracts with a dedicated estate gardener. Quarterly horticultural review and annual replant programme.

03Craft

Hand-pruned, season after season.

The geometry of a formal garden is not maintained by a contractor on a quarterly visit. Our estate gardeners are on-site weekly through the growing season, hand-trimming each topiary with secateurs rather than power tools — the only way to keep the line clean.

04Detailing

Native species, formal geometry.

Our houseframework combines a classical European formality — parterre hedging, axial paths, geometric water features — with predominantly New Zealand-native planting. The result is rooted in place, but precise in execution.

05Restoration Case Study

A formal garden, returned to plan.

Before

After

A heritage Remuera courtyard returned to its 1920s formal-garden specification. Eighteen months design and installation; three years to reach full establishment.

06Process

Five stages, one accountable lead.

01
Site survey & brief
Topographic survey, soil testing, sun-path study, and one-day brief workshop with the principal — at the property, not the office.
02
Master-plan design
Concept design through to construction documentation, including planting schedule, hardscape detailing, and night-lighting plan.
03
Programme & cost
Fixed-price contract, defined sequence, single point of contractor accountability.
04
Installation
Full hardscape, irrigation, lighting, and a multi-season planting programme to ensure year-one establishment.
05
Stewardship
Optional ongoing grounds management — a single named lead horticulturist responsible for the estate season after season.

Site to setting

Grounds that resolve intothe landscape they sit in.

07Species

Rooted in place.

A typical estate planting palette is 70% native New Zealand species, 30% European-classical structural plants (Buxus, Taxus, Carpinus). The natives carry the year-round texture and seasonal flowering; the formal hedging carries the architecture.