The boardwalk

Auckland

The owners of this property were keen to create a beautiful front garden whilst providing a clear and decisive pathway to their front door, which was hidden from view of visitors. Our solution, inspired by waterfront boardwalks and the wonderfully lush native bush setting, was to create a strong sense of flow to the front door by playing with the shape, materials and proportion of the pathway. By adding lighting and alcoves for plants to grow through, the boardwalk married both functionality with the form of the house and the wildness of the greater landscape.

We used a predominantly green palette of evergreen structural plantings, native nikau and grasses. The grasses, providing movement, were interspersed with touches of blue, maroon, purple and red from shrubs and perennial planting.