Spring field Trip, Gardenza Glenbrook Beach Road, Waiuku - 1 October 2008

Gardenza Glenbrook Beach Road, Waiuku   
Topiary by Tim Bell 93 Bungard Rd, Karaka

 The October spring field trip to Gardenza and Tim Bell Topiary was inspirational and helpful for sourcing unusual and high quality plants.

 David Brundell recently spoke to the GDSNZ, outlined his vision and showed images of his dream taking shape. The planting of the new area is unfinished but the planting and layout of the existing garden is outstanding.

Members: for more information read the September 2008 newsletter in the Members Only Section
 

Waitakaruru Arboretum and Sculpture Park - Sunday 11 May 2008

A great chance to visit this interesting place at Scotsman Valley in the Waikato with other designers. This garden has received an award from the New Zealand Garden Trust. Unfortunately they have lost some trees in the drought, but they have a very good exhibition currently, E:scape Sculpture in the Landscape, curated by Kim Paton.
See www.sculpturepark.co.nz
Members: for more information read the April 2008 newsletter in the Members Only Section

Annual General Meeting 11 June 2008

AGM 7.00pm Wednesday 11 June
Members: For more information see April 2008 newsletter Members Only Area

Jan Hart and Doug Hanna Workshop - 10 August 2008

The workshop was an outstanding success and most stimulating for the 17 members who attended. The chance to come together in a warm learning environment was appreciated by all and especially those who have been out in practice for some years.

Members: for more information read the September 2008 newsletter in the Members Only Section

 

Michael Jones & Penny Cliffin - hosted 5 March 2008

Michael Jones & Penny Cliffin gave a talk on Lytes Cary and Tintinhull, which they visited together, both outstanding NT gardens in Somerset. Additionally they spoke on a garden they visited on their own: Michael, Mapperton, the home of Lord & Lady Sandwich, in Dorset; and Penny showed images from the Hampton Court Flower Show.
Hampton Court (Penny Cliffin) Hampton Court (Penny Cliffin)
Mapperton (Michael Jones) Mapperton (Michael Jones)
Lytes Carey (Penny Cliffin) Lytes Carey (Penny Cliffin)
Tintinhull (Michael Jones) Tintinhull (Michael Jones)
Tintinhull (Michael Jones) Tintinhull (Michael Jones)

AGM 2007                                                                              

The 2007 AGM was held on the evening of Thursday 7 June 2007 at UNITEC. 

Please visit the members only area, (click the  'Exec and AGM minutes' link on the left hand side)  for the Chairman's report and minutes of the 2007 AGM.

 

 

Chelsea Flower Show

Our past Chairman, Michael Jones, whilst in London, enabled us to bring you some photos from the Chelsea Flower Show. These include a couple of images from GDSNz member Xanthe White's Silver-Gilt winning 100% Pure NZ Garden. The photos include images from Tom Stuart Smith's garden judged Best in Show and one from the small garden category by Ruth Marshall...ENJOY!

 

 Ruth Marshalls garden "Seeing the Whole Picture"for the Mencap Foundation for the Learning-Disabled; At the rear are photos of a normal child and a disabled child, with three vertical prisms in front of them which fracture the images and "encourage the viewer to change their way of seeing learning disability".  The surroundings are designed to be "intrinsically beautiful, reflective, and stimulating to the senses".    
Silver-Gilt : Xanthe White's 100% Pure NZ Garden
Silver-Gilt : Xanthe White's 100% Pure NZ Garden
Silver : Ruth Marshall's 'Seeing the Whole Picture', for the Mencap Foundation for the Learning-Disabled
Silver : Ruth Marshall's 'Seeing the Whole Picture', for the Mencap Foundation for the Learning-Disabled
Best in Show : Tom Stuart-Smith's Daily Telegraph Garden
Best in Show : Tom Stuart-Smith's Daily Telegraph Garden

Review of trip to Hamilton Gardens

We began the day at Margaret and Hamish McKegg’s riverside garden near Hamilton. The photo here bears testimony to the thoughtful design moves embraced in this garden. It is elegant, cool, green – quite serene. It encounters its landscape, and the river and pastoral setting are quietly invoked. It plays on long low horizontal lines and the strong axes – not immediately obvious – are exciting when discovered. 

Peter Sergel was unavailable to show us around the Hamilton Gardens, but fortunately Nigel Holman introduced the Gardens to us. Even those of us fairly familiar with the Gardens found the scale of the gardens and audacity of the vision very impressive, especially after the completion of the last two paradise gardens, the Mughal and Italian Rennaissance.

Our day finished with a touch of art - and coffee - at the Waikato Art Museum.

 

2007

- Christmas party - Wednesday 12 December 2007
Christmas Party 2008 Christmas Party 2008
Christmas Party 2008 Christmas Party 2008

Past Events of Interest

2008 

- Michael Jones & Penny Cliffin  Wednesday 5 March 2008

2007

- Christmas party - Wednesday 12 December 2007

- Soiree at Michael Jones, Wednesday 7 November 2007

- Wairere and Landsendt  Wednesday 17 October 2007

- Robin Shafer   Wednesday 10 October 2007

- Gil Hanly and Jill Pierce 12 September 2007

- NZ Landscape & Garden Design Conference 1 & 2 September 2007

- Cath Heppelthwaite, planner 11 July 2007

- AGM June 2007

2006

Thurs 27th July 2006 - David Irwin, landscape architect and director of the Isthus Group talked about Landscape inspired Landscapes - with reference to three significant recent or current Auckland projects (Highbrook business park, Manukau Square, Barry Curtis park in Flatbush, Manukau). 

Thurs 10th August 2006 - Ludo Campbell-Reid, newly appointed Urban Design Group Manager, for Auckland City Council shared his thoughts on urban design, his new role and his vision to take Auckland forward and help create an urban design programme and design delivery that is respected around the world.

Thurs 17th August 2006 - Alec Couchman, architect with Warren and Mahoney, and expert on Environmentally Sustainable Design Policies, talked about the essential nature of environmentally sustainable architecture in NZ.

Thurs 31st August 2006, Rod Barnett, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in ScALA talked about Sacred Groves - Sacrifice and order of nature in ancient Greece.