Landscaping Guides
Make your garden pop with Waikato Fleck pebbles
Our Waikato Fleck (also known as Hoki Poki stone) is one of our most popular pebbles for landscaping. Its warm colour tones - shades of brown, cream and gold work well with wooden edging or sleepers, metal elements such as corten steel and make modern house colours such as black and grey...
Nine ways to use wooden sleepers in landscaping
Nine ways to use wooden sleepers in your next garden project.
Installing a Field Drain
Installing a simple field drain beneath lawn areas can help eliminate excess water on your property and minimise those boggy patches. Here's some step by step instructions for laying a simple field drain. For more complex drainage jobs - we recommend getting in a professional landscaper or drainage specialist.
Dealing with clay soils and conditioning them for planting
By Heather Tait – Central Landscapes Planting Expert Mention that your garden has clay soil and you’ll experience either sympathetic groans for those who have the same, or smug smiles from gardeners with loamy or volcanic soil. Clay is maligned for many reasons: its minuscule particles can form a hard,...
Low maintenance gardens
Glamour without Graft We Kiwis love our gardens. Apparently, gardening itself is still one our most popular pastimes. However, despite surveys suggesting the contrary, more and more of us are opting for the 'do-it-for-me' approach. We want our homes to look as smart and stylish on the outside as they...