Behind every garden in the Auckland Garden Showcase is a talented landscape designer with their own creative vision, style and approach to outdoor living. From award-winning professionals to innovative design studios, each has created a unique space that showcases fresh ideas, thoughtful design and the latest in landscaping trends.
Discover the designers behind each garden, learn about their inspiration and explore how their ideas can help shape your own outdoor project.
Parrot Landscaping
North Shore-based Parrot Landscaping is the team bringing the entire Garden Showcase to life this year. Founded by David and Valeria with over 20 years of combined experience, the crew is known for turning ordinary backyards into thoughtfully planned, built-to-last outdoor spaces.
From paving and retaining walls to planting and water features, no project is too big or too complex for them – which is exactly why they’re the ones building this year’s showcase from the ground up.
Designgroup Stapleton Elliott
Bartleet Landscape Studio
Trish and her son Sebastian have merged practices to create Bartleet Landscape Studio in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, pairing Trish’s extensive experience with Sebastian’s fresh insights for a distinctive, two-generation approach to garden design. Trish has been described as the most original and confident garden designer in Auckland, known for stretching the boundaries of perception and extending her clients’ experience of space, while Sebastian brings a Landscape Architecture degree and a strong focus on creating gardens that respond to their environment through texture, colour and balance.
Val Puxty Landscape Design
Designing contemporary residential gardens since 2007, Val believes you don’t need a huge space to create somewhere beautiful. Her Garden Show zone is a courtyard garden – calm, luxurious, and proof that a small footprint can still deliver a big “wow.”
Featuring a fireplace, wood stacker, layered paving and decking, and considered plant combinations, it’s a masterclass in getting the details right.
Landscape Designer
Tori Arundel brings a hands-on, detail-focused approach to garden design, with a knack for making the most of smaller, tighter spaces. Her work favours considered planting and thoughtful layout over scale — proof that a compact footprint can still pack in plenty of interest.
This year’s Small Landscape Garden is a great showcase of that philosophy in action.
Get Outside Ltd
Following her childhood fascination with plants, Jill studied horticultural science and landscape architecture before establishing her own multi-award-winning practice in 2003 and teaching landscape design. Her specialty is to design gardens that will inspire play, exploration and wonder about plants for children of all ages!
Her Garden Show zone, “Whiria” (to weave), is a collaboration with 2 of her ex-students Milly and Mere, and brings different cultures and stories together into one space of belonging for everyone – including the tamariki.
Expect curiosity, excitement, and harmony, with permeable surfaces and porous walls that let the landscape breathe.
Nick Robinson — Landscape Architecture, Ecology & Garden Design
With 30 years in the industry, Nick designs naturalistic, plant-focused gardens that follow nature’s own cues – lush, ecological, and full of theatre. His Garden Show zone draws on the spiral, the universal symbol of unfolding potential, inviting visitors to slow down and look closely.
Expect enchantment and discovery, built from natural stone, timber, water, and plants – a space designed to spark conversations about plants and the simple pleasures of nature.
