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Greetings!
Spring ! Time to get into the garden, at least if we
have time to get into the garden. As I write this I am
looking at weeds springing out all over the place in
the garden outside our office. When you are a
landscape designer you constantly look at the details
in a garden and habitually pull weeds almost
subconsciously mid conversation when talking to
people. It's a good habit but I am struggling with the
garden here. I am just far too busy these days to
venture into my own garden. Managing the growth of
this website and the landscapedesign.co.nz team is
my biggest garden yet.
Several months ago I was negotiating with a
lawyer on a legal matter for the business. In an
amicable signoff in an email he wrote in a typical
lawyeresque tone “Tis a curious thing, the juvenile
Matai”. This left me a bit perplexed. What was he
getting at? Was it personal? After a few days it came
to me. He was referring to the World Wide Web. The
juvenile Matai is a tangled web of a plant that grows
into a tall giant tree. Its been 10 months growth for
the site and it must be one of the fastest growing
Matai's in the world.
If you have a great story or something of interest we
can feature on our site please email us to let us
know. The feedback from advertisers and the NZ
public is fantastic and we appreciate hearing your
stories of being brought together by the website.
That's what community is all about!
Kind regards from Tim Durrant & the Landscapedesign.co.nz Team
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Earlier this week I visited artist Des Robertshaw’s
studio to discuss the sculptures we are
commissioning for our exhibition garden at Ellerslie.
One of the reasons I launched this site was because
I wanted to explore the wonderful products and
resources this country has to offer our outdoor living
spaces, and make peoples ideas and inventions
accessible in a reasonable and open way.
