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.

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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.

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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

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We love what we do

We plant, prune, compost, mulch, feed, weed, trim, design.
Organic gardeners, working hard in the Hutt Valley and Wellington.

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Phil
Respected client
Phil
Respected client

We commissioned Brent to do a design for our backyard. We loved what he came up with and our landscaper was impressed. Additionally, he planted an orchard, recommended and sourced the plants, showed us how to plant them and then advised us on how to take care of them.

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Kay
Cherished client
Kay
Cherished client

Blue Duck are wonderful gardeners. They look after my Lower Hutt garden year-round. They trim my ivy & jasmine, shape my corokia, feed, mulch, and prune my roses. Last year Blue Duck designed two garden beds for me, planted them out and then advised me every step of the way. Got hundreds of tomatoes from just six plants! Also corn, pumpkins, salad greens and carrots.

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Explore our gardening tips and advice.

 
 
Organic mulch

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.

We don’t use chemical weedkillers. So what do we do instead?

We beautify gardens. As trained organic gardeners we know a lot about dealing with weeds efficiently without the need for chemicals.

In this video Brent talks about weedkillers and a couple of the methods that we use to deal with weeds.