Nine national awards for the care of gardens over time.
Including Premier Awards in 2021 and 2023.
Presented by Registered Master Landscapers through its Landscapes of Distinction awards.
The Lodge at The Hills
Where the first Premier was won. The Lodge at The Hills was named Best Maintenance Project of the Year in 2021, with a Gold the same year for its garden management. Ten years after planting began, the judges wrote that ‘the bold mass perennial planting still looks fabulous’.
Two gardens carried 2023: Millbrook Sanctuary took the Premier Award for its garden management, with Golds for Millbrook and Drift Bay Lakefront.
Millbrook Sanctuary
Drift Bay Lakefront
The most recent of the nine: Hogan’s Gully Haven took Gold for its maintenance and Silver for its softscape in 2025.
Hogan’s Gully Haven
The record
Nine awards across four years, every one for a garden in the Whakatipu Basin.
- Premier Award, Garden Maintenance / Management (Best Maintenance Project of the Year)The Lodge at The Hills
- Gold, Residential Project, Garden Management / Maintenance: 400m2 and overThe Lodge at The Hills
- 2 awards: Silver, Residential Project Garden Management / Maintenance: 400m2 and over
- Premier Award, Best Garden Management of The YearMillbrook Sanctuary
- Gold, Residential Project Garden Management / Maintenance: 400m2 and overMillbrook Sanctuary
- Gold, Residential Project Garden Management / Maintenance: 400m2 and overDrift Bay Lakefront
- Gold, Maintain, Over 1,500m2Hogan's Gully Haven
- Silver, Softscape, Residential and Commercial over $100,000Hogan's Gully Haven
“exceptional degree of sensitivity and attention to detail”
“the combination of formality and informality creates fluid movement throughout the garden”
That is the judges’ verdict. The clients’ verdict is longer.