Layered native planting bed with a nikau palm against a dark timber house

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Planting, layer by layer.

A planting plan drawn for your section, its wind, its sun and its soil, not a list off a shelf. Green the day it goes in, better every year after.

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White clematis flowering along a garden trellis
Right plant,
right place

The approach

Wellington plants in layers, because the weather does.

The southerly, the salt, a north slope that bakes and a gully that never dries, one section can hold all of it. So we do not plant a garden flat. We build it in layers, each one doing a job, so it shelters itself and keeps its shape once the flowering settles down.

  • Canopy Nikau and a few small trees for shelter, so the wind lands soft before it reaches the beds.
  • Structure Flax, hebe and coprosma hold the shape all year, the bones you still read in July.
  • Fill and flower The seasonal layer underneath, clematis up the trellis, colour that moves through the year.

Through the year

We plant for July, not just for the photo in October.

Anyone can make a bed look full in spring. The test is winter, when the flowers have gone and the structure is all that is left. Get the layers right and the garden still reads in the cold months, then lifts again on its own when the season turns.

October, clematis on the trellisMidsummer, the beds knit shutJuly, the structure still reads

Start with your section

Tell us the spot that never quite works.

Send a photo and a few lines about the aspect and the soil. We will come back with a planting plan drawn for that patch, the layers, the plants and what it looks like in a year.

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