Herne Bay garden
Auckland, NZ
Private Garden
This project involved the renovation of an existing timber villa with a modern extension added to the rear of the property, designed by Jose Gutierrez Architects. The garden comprises three spaces, a recasting of the front garden, narrow dining terrace and a new pool garden at the rear of the house.
The rear garden wraps around the house in an 'L' shape, the western part being the pool garden and the northern part a long timber terrace adjoining the kitchen and living room of the house. Layered hedging along the boundary provides privacy and pockets of planting carved out of the decks to offer texture rich layers of planting.
The front garden is centred on a square of lawn providing space for play. Planting surrounding the lawn includes a mix of flowering shrubs and perennials to complement a selection of evergreen shrubs that provide shape and volume.
Photography by www.duncaninnes.co.nz