Botanic news and inspiration

Soaking up garden inspiration
Paul Roper-Gee Paul Roper-Gee

Soaking up garden inspiration

It’s refreshing to seek new ideas and gain inspiration. Recently the Botanic team headed up to the Sauvignon Blanc clad valleys of Marlborough for the 2024 New Zealand Gardens Trust Conference.

Joining over 120 gardeners, horticulturalists and designers Adrian and Paul toured fantastic and diverse gardens, chatted with like-minded colleagues, imbibed some of the local vino, and listened closely to knowledgeable speakers.

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Botanic Gin Project
Adrian Taylor Adrian Taylor

Botanic Gin Project

Like designing a planting scheme, crafting a gin uses the flavour and fragrant properties of each plant to design an overall composition.

Every year we host people from our design community to forage fresh botanicals growing in the public urban gardens of Ōtautahi Christchurch, and then we co-craft a gin together in the Botanic studio.

We are literally creating the taste of our urban landscape!

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Botanic opens it doors
Studio Botanic Studio Botanic

Botanic opens it doors

And we are… live! Welcome to Botanic Landscape Architects, a newly opened boutique landscape architect studio founded by two of the most trusted names in landscape architecture in Canterbury.

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