Remuera garden
Auckland, NZ
Private Garden
The gardens are built around a lovingly restored 1930’s brick house with a contemporary extension and pool designed by Fearon Hay Architects. A series of garden spaces from the entrance courtyard, potager, lawn terrace, through to pool garden are created with clipped hedges of Portuguese Laurel. The planting within each space comprises a mix of deciduous flowering shrubs, repeated mounds of clipped Westringia and a patchwork of flowering perennials and groundcover species. A combination of clipped vegetation and ephemeral planting ensures seasonal change as well as a legible structure to the garden throughout the year. Bricks were imported from Holland to lay the garden paths and pacific limestone used as large steppers through the planting.

Photography by www.duncaninnes.co.nz