Blue Duck Gardeners
Look outside.
Love what you see.
Does your garden need some love?
We bring gardens to life.
One-off tidy or regular garden management
Want to make your garden a pleasure, not a pain? The organic way. We get (and keep) your garden looking great.
Garden design
Want a beautiful garden? We will listen to your ideas, melding them with our knowledge and creating beauty. Whether it is formal, semi-formal or wild we design gardens with a difference.
Hedge & shrub trimming
Trimming and topiary needs to be timed just right. Before the summer heat, when new growth has started to harden, not in the rain. So, how do you get those nice straight hedges and round topiary balls? Right tools, sound experience
We love what we do
We plant, prune, compost, mulch, feed, weed, trim, design.
Organic gardeners, working hard in the Hutt Valley and Wellington.
Explore our gardening tips and advice.
Time to mulch?
We use organic ramial wood mulch on most of our gardens. Aged for about six months. What’s ramial wood? It’s the wood from the branches of trees, as opposed to the bark. Have you noticed bark nuggets take forever to break-down into soil? Ramial wood mulch doesn’t. 6-12 months and you’ve got soil provided the mulch has been chipped correctly. It’s because of the Carbon:Nitrogen ratio. Phew! Ignore the science if you want but get that mulch happening.
The much maligned NZ Cabbage tree.
The Cabbage tree, Ti kouka, Cordyline australis. Much maligned for dropping leaves and looking shabby but there’s more to this incredible plant. Friend or foe? Watch this video before you make up your mind.