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A modern family garden after renovations, Wellington

Tinakori: an historic villa renovated for modern family living

Read about:

Read about:

Layered Loveliness

Mixed Box Balls:

Mixed Box Balls:

lots of sizes

Suitable trees

Suitable trees

for pleaching

Large jasmines

Large jasmines

ready to espalier

White Hydrangeas

White Hydrangeas

Best box hedge

Best box hedge

"Green Gem"

Mondo Grass

Mondo Grass

& Lirope edging

Historic villa renovated for modern family living

Beautiful plant combinations

Levelled, private & sunny outdoor family living with great indoor outdoor flow

Thorndon Society Notable Home

Sloping site transformed into family friendly garden

Read about Level Best

Levelled & retained terraces

Evergreen structure using mixed boxwood balls

Beautiful water feature & focal point

Making the most of wall space in the garden

"Rachael creates such beautiful gardens for these kind of houses"

Looking back towards the house from the top terrace

Open plan indoor outdoor flow

Wrought iron front gate

Front gate detail & pleached hedge

Pleached flowering pears on stainless steel framework

Seasonal & structural planting for small gardens

Landscape architecture
designed & built at same time as rennovations

House & garden rennovations planned at the same time

Before the renovations & architects

After the architects & before planting

We brought Rachael in early to ensure the hard landscaping and garden would be complementary

Outdoor living & entertaining area

A wider view of the family friendly back garden

Favourite photo of garden & water feature built into terracing

Top lawn terrace for trampoline - coming down for morning tea

Privacy planting ideas for small city gardens

Private, sheltered, sunny back garden

Outdoor table setting for lunch

Lunch & BBQs in the garden

Stepping out of a suit and into the garden - Deighton is a fantastic gardener

"When you come through the gate and walk around the side of the house,” says Deighton, “you feel like you’re away from it all"

Family time in the garden

Kids love circuits to run & scooter around in the garden

Outdoor BBQ, fire place & feature planting espaliered Chinese Star Jasmines

Focal points
enjoyed from the inside looking out

Small garden specimen tree - Cercis Forest Pansy

Bergenia & boxwood balls

A glimpse of the paving detailing around lawn on upper terrac

Mixed buxus balls & Japanese Anemones

Mixed Boxwood | Buxus balls in different size

Water feature & boxwood balls

Copper Beech barrel columns for height & privacy

Copper beech leaves against outdoor storage shed

Chinese Star Jasmines in flower in summer

Box Holly balls - Ilex crenata Helleri

White flowering draper Bacopa syn Sutera cordata

Side garden enjoyed from inside

White flowering Iceberg rose standard

Georgina particularly loves ‘Iceberg’ roses which have been planted in memory of her mother

House & landscape architecture Tse: Wallace Architects ● master builders : Overton Associates ● garden design : HEDGE Garden Design & Nursery ● TLC : the owners!