In-brief Get your planting designed carefully to:- reduce numbers & optimise plant grades for <$- streamline planting & achieve your aims Allow for planting to start following year- (unless you want to spend $$$) Source plants as locally as possible- less freight fees & healthier plants Plan for planting in stages Forward order for succeeding... Continue Reading →
Electric excavator at work, just started cutting upper platform Converting a steep, hard-to-mow lawn to a subalpine native garden (I'm increasingly asked to replace lawns - including for amenity, food-growing, biodiversity & stormwater runoff control). Brief was to replace lawn with an attractive native scheme & fruit trees, and avoid steps for a more accessable... Continue Reading →
Work has been coming in thick and fast and Nigel's been travelling far and wide. Recently in Wanaka he's been starting a 30 Ha re-vegetation project and in the greater Dunedin region he's had several jobs on the go. In his limited spare time he managed a little recreational photography. New Zealand. Click on any... Continue Reading →
Nigel came across this splendid bull sculpture in a field by the road when he was in the South Catlins on a work trip recently. The bull is life-size or bigger and constructed in Corten steel. In a conversation with the owners Nigel found the bull provides more than just artistic interest in a farm... Continue Reading →
At the end of Day One Nigel moved his Growplan tent and display to Site N14. If you visit the Wanaka Show on Sat March 13, please drop by Site N14 where Nigel's on hand to chat about landscape design and planning. There are also detailed information displays to see. Growplan site photos taken by... Continue Reading →
Nigel will be at the 2021 Wanaka A&P ShowFriday and Saturday, 12-13 March.Growplan has a new site this year >> Site H3 Now N14(livestock and show ring area, near Gate 7) Keen to talk landscape design and planning for large projects!
Today Covid alert Level 2 from 6am meant a local event was cancelled where Nigel was to have a display for Growplan. The car was already packed so he headed to Lawrence and set up in the main street! Had some good conversations. Lawrence, Clutha District, New Zealand. N.B. Wanaka A&P Show 12-13 March 2021.... Continue Reading →
This post is in response to NZ government's missed opportunity to mitigate rising atmospheric carbon. Despite access to the world's science, and despite the opportunity represented by 105,000 km² of farmland, government persists in denying farmers agency in helping solve the problem. Soil carbon is ignored in all govt. statements, there's a perception in govt... Continue Reading →
Tuesday morning I was working in my office when a call came in, "we've got a digger for a couple of days, can you pop up this afternoon?" I knew there was something in the works for this farm but with Covid-19 everything had been on hold. At Level 2 when a call comes in... Continue Reading →
To many eyes, plants look too simple to do anything but plants can remove most of our stormwater, lower council spending by 20% and store carbon, and everyone gets more real green-space too. But tradition and fear of the unknown mean few are rushing to do this. Also it is SO easy to dismiss planting... Continue Reading →
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