Design Gold 2025: Botanic Landscape Architects turned a Strowan garden into a resort-style oasis of louvred pergola, heated pool and tropical planting.

This comprehensive backyard transformation involved extensive excavation and construction work in close proximity to the existing house, presenting unique challenges that were successfully overcome.

Residential Build of the Year 2025: a five-year restoration of a historic Havelock North homestead by South Pacific Landscapes, in French limestone, cobblestone and Corten steel.

A 2025 Gold medallist: Natural Habitats planted over 90,000 plants and 204 large trees at the Auckland Temple, a dignified two-year softscape project.

A 2025 Silver medallist: Natural Habitats planted an indigenous greenroof above Auckland's CBD, every plant labelled with its Māori name, hauled up by service lift.

A 2025 Silver medallist: Humphreys Landscaping turned a walled walled St Marys Bay garden into a serene retreat around a single-slab granite water feature.

A 2025 Gold medallist: Kūmānu Environmental built the gateway landscape to Paparoa National Park at Punakaiki, in nikau planting, exposed aggregate and cultural raki paving.

A 2025 Bronze medallist: Top Garden delivered a Meadowbank development's podium courtyard and driveway in Corten steel, timber seating and riparian planting.

A 2025 Special Feature Award recipient: Onlandscapes built a resort-style Strowan garden of pool, outdoor kitchen, pergolas and pitch-and-putt, delivered by Christmas around earthquake and tree constr

The Landscapes of Distinction 2025 Supreme Winner: a layered Auckland garden by Second Nature that grows a European palette in a subtropical climate, with Softscape and Maintenance honours too.

This comprehensive landscaping project, undertaken in collaboration with Hamish Moorhead Landscapes, transformed the entire property into multi-functional outdoor spaces for the entire family.

A 2025 Silver medallist: Sole Landscapes turned an elevated Khandallah yard into a modern garden room with a custom fireplace, Dekton kitchen and spa, all craned into a tight site.

This luxurious landscaping project seamlessly blends the classic elegance of the home with modern amenities and design elements.

The scope for this project was developed in conjunction with the clients desire to develop a functional, sheltered outdoor living environment within a tricky set of confinements.

A 2025 Bronze medallist: Sole Landscapes built a resort-style Greytown pool and entertaining garden around existing kowhai trees, with fireplace, vitex deck and privacy hedging.

Design of the Year 2025: Luijten Landscaping turned a tight, sloped Orewa section into a resort-style retreat of pool, spa, floating stairs and lush sub-tropical planting.

Sole Landscapes was commissioned by our lovely clients to renovate a space with limited opportunity for entertainment and gardens overrun with weeds, and subsequently, endless maintenance.

A 2025 Gold medallist: Kūmānu Environmental maintains Richmond's historic Washbourn Gardens, a 1924 premier park of oaks, roses and the Begonia House, to a high horticultural standard.

A 2025 Silver medallist: Shape Landscaping renovated a Mellons Bay pool and garden into a minimalist, resort-style space with tropical planting and house-matched materials.

A 2025 Gold medallist: Kate Campbell Gardens and Residences keeps a 50 hectare Queenstown estate at its peak through four alpine seasons, protecting Lake Hayes as it goes.

A 2025 Bronze medallist: Winfield Landscapes built a subtropical Auckland oasis around a circular lawn, quarter-circle deck and Corten steel garden rings.

A 2025 Gold medallist: Diva Landscapes shaped a seven-acre Arrowtown property over seven years, adding a Japanese courtyard, native planting and irrigation.

A 2025 Special Feature Award recipient: Kūmānu Environmental reimagined Nelson's Modellers Pond into Te Pā Harakeke, integrating stormwater, tidal flows, ecology and natural play.

A 2025 Bronze medallist: By Design Concrete and Paving built a cliff-edge permeable tennis court in Herne Bay, engineered to store and slowly release its own stormwater.

A 2025 Bronze medallist: By Design Concrete and Paving revived a tired Glendowie poolside into a low-maintenance, family-friendly outdoor living space.

Environmental Project of the Year 2025: Kūmānu Environmental rebuilt the storm-hit Maitai Valley with a diverted river, 2,500 tonnes of rock and 75,000 native plants.

A 2025 Bronze medallist: By Design Concrete and Paving built a new Hobsonville public park in decorative concrete inspired by the wetland, with native bird motifs and accessible paths.

A 2025 Silver medallist: Gill Landscapes built a bespoke Fendalton family garden of honed concrete, outdoor kitchen, pool lighting and a co-designed copper gate.

A 2025 Silver medallist: Sole Landscapes built a resort-style Martinborough holiday garden of putting green, twin pools, kwila deck and vineyard views.

This landscaping project, designed by Louise at Noble Fox, transformed the front and back yards of this property into a harmonious blend of modern design and natural elements.

Design Gold 2025: Botanic Landscape Architects designed a Port Hills family garden of terraced deck, pool and naturalistic meadow planting with city views.

Commercial Build of the Year 2025: Luijten Landscaping turned an underused corner of Ōtāhuhu Primary into a sculpted play landscape that lifted engagement and attendance.

A 2025 Silver medallist: Sculptural Landscapes wrapped a renovated Canterbury homestead in over 5,000 square metres of formal gardens, porcelain paving and country planting.

A 2025 Gold medallist: Luijten Landscaping turned a Manurewa Intermediate courtyard into a walk-through solar system of Corten planets, sculpture and planting.

A fire-and-quake story with a happy ending: Xteriorscapes designed a bespoke Fendalton family landscape of pool, sheltered outdoor living and lawn that won Gold in Residential Design 2025.

A 2025 Gold medallist: Green Therapy stewards a Lake Wakatipu garden where careful maintenance blurs the line between cultivated planting and the neighbouring conservation reserve.

A 2025 Silver medallist: Sculptural Landscapes turned a small Kaiapoi space into an eclectic, lawn-free sanctuary of bluestone paths, Corten edging and flowering planting.

A 2025 Silver medallist: Top Garden built a Japanese-inspired Auckland garden designed around lighting, with schist, composite decking and a bamboo water feature.

In the middle of 2019, Karori Childcare Centre reached out to Sole Landscapes to undertake redevelopment of the playspace as per the set of drawings and specifications put together by the great team at Get Outside.

A 2025 Gold medallist: Kūmānu Environmental maintains Nelson's Miyazu Japanese Garden to exacting standards, thirty years of skilled guardianship.

A 2025 Bronze medallist: Weka Landscaping restored Central Otago's first vineyard with schist, Corten steel, hardy perennials and transplanted mature olives.