Blue Duck Gardens
Look outside.
Love what you see.
Does your garden need some love?
We bring gardens to life.
One-off tidy-ups or regular garden tidy-ups
Want to make your garden a pleasure, not a pain? The organic way. We get (and keep) your garden looking great.
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
Planting design
Do you want a formal or semi-formal garden? Or just a nice looking hedge or buxus border? To start, you need to get the timing right.
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.
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.
Tradescantia fluminensis aka Wandering Willie is a miraculous plant that does well in New Zealand conditions. Problem is that it does too well!
It's hard to get rid of. In this video Brent, Head Gardener at Blue Duck Gardens, tell us how to deal with this plant using organic methods. Principally, shading it out. Oh, and by the way, chickens love it and will get rid of every little bit.