Welcome to Plus Gardening

Plus Gardening team Kim & Jeanette will make your garden sing, create beauty and add value to your property.

Whether we are restoring as garden to its original design or creating a new garden our care for the land and hands on approach creates a special magic in gardens.  As a husband and wife team, Kim and Jeanette deliver a discrete personal service to you and your garden.

Services we provide are:

• Full Garden Restoration – restore gardens as designed to full bloom
• Project Management – with our background in social/community work we can manage projects
• Deep weeding – a hands on approach to getting rid of troublesome weeds
• Trimming and Pruning – keeping perennials, shrub, climbers and hedge neat and trim – small tree removal
• Composting – the health of a garden is in the health of its soil
• Mulching – saves water and suppresses weeds
• Vegetable Gardens – builds and supports vegetable gardening
• Small Garden Design and Planting – develop and plant new gardens
• Build & Repairs to Garden Timber Work – fences, trellis, garden surrounds, box gardens, decks and the like
• Seasonal Garden Housekeeping – each season brings its particular ‘house keeping’ needs – fertilizing, dead heading, training and tying up as well as a good sweep
• Nursery Services – collecting, propagating and raising plants for your garden

Kim and Jeanette are competent to undertake all outdoor tasks of a proud homeowner so that you may enjoy and enhance the value of your property and your outdoor lifestyle.

Our charges range from $450 to $600 per day ‘in the field’ (plus GST) depending on travel, the complexity and requirements of the garden project.

Our process is to arrange an initial consultation in your garden.  Here we discuss your garden project, what is required and our working, costs and terms of trade.  We usually like to do this as a team so that we meet you and your garden together.

To book your initial consultation contact:

Plus Gardening

Phone – 021-187-0495

E-mail – plusgardening@gmail.com

• Terms of Trade

Terms of trade are – half the labour cost and any materials costs as a deposit and the remaining half of the labour cost paid on completion.

Inspirational show – An Extra – Ordinary Garden at NZ Flower & Garden Show

The NZ Flower and Garden show 2017 was very inspiring.  The gardens on display required lots of work, manual labour and above all love.  We were humbled to have shared this experience with so many talented gardeners, landscapers, florists and retailers who spent many long hours working to ensure their displays were ready in time for judging.  Every display looked amazing filled with colour, interesting plants and resources.

Many of the entrants had a few months to plan and develop their display, we however had 3 weeks to put together a garden plan and to build our garden from scratch.  Thank you to Plant Zero Angelique being our main sponsor provided the rescued plants for our ‘Extra-Ordinary Garden’.  We promoted sustainable practices that have a low impact on the environment.  All the resources used were pre-loved including the wood to build the garden beds.  The plants had been rescued meaning they were to be binned however Plant Zero is in the business of recovering plants.  We are so pleased to have gained a ‘Merit’ award for our efforts.

We will definitely enter the 2018 NZ Flower and Garden show and aim to improve our display through a better design and have time to plan the display.

NZ Flower & Garden Show

NZ Flower and Garden Show 2018 28/11/18 to 2/12/18 – we were not sure if we should but we did enter again this year and it was really fantastic.  It means a lot of work for Kim and Jeanette to set up the garden and build it from scratch.  We managed to gain a couple of helpers which was really appreciated so thank you to Anaru and Ore who gave us a hand.

We had learnt a lot from our previous entry last year and set out to create a garden with colour and contrast which we believe we achieved.  We gained a merit again this year and felt that the garden was the best ever.

2017 show

After attending an after five business function at the beginning of October for the first time, we found ourselves being offered an opportunity that we could not resist.  We were asked if we were interested in entering the NZ Flower & Garden Show at the Trusts Arena 29/11/17 to 3/12/17.  Of course we said yes as its an opportunity to show case our work.

We want to promote sustainable practices where practical.  We believe that old fashioned gardening is becoming a thing of the past.  What our grandparent and parents did to feed their families and provide peaceful environments, are especially important to keep alive.  Its all very well to go out and buy new plants, sterile soil and compost, build a lovely looking garden however those lovely gardens will be purely built to look pretty but no real life will be present.

Composting & mulching gardens are high on the list, creating garden beds from non treated wood to provide a safe environment to plant edible plants, vegetables and fruit trees.  Many people want a low maintenance garden where weeds simply disappear from sight.  Sorry to say that there is no such thing all gardens require some work however mulching your garden will keep weeds at bay.

Kim and I look forward to meeting you at the show please check it out nzflowergardenshow.co.nz