Our work

Real gardens, in the landscape they were built for.

A curated gallery of Diva gardens across Queenstown and Arrowtown: new installations, renovated spaces, and long-maintained properties, shown as they are.

The terrace at Drift Bay Lakefront, with clipped hedging, hydrangeas and the lake and mountains beyond

Selected work

Gardens made for the Whakatipu.

Three gardens from across the basin: a maintained formal garden, a designed estate, a naturalistic slope. Shown as they are.

Clipped garden

Precisely maintained through every season.

Sculpted formal garden

Meticulously maintained to award standard.

Alpine perennial garden

Seasonal colour and winter structure.

Before / after

See the change, up close.

Drag to reveal how a space resolves under care.

The same terrace garden after Diva's care: hedges clipped into crisp forms and beds cleared and tidied

A schist-walled terrace garden overgrown, with loose hedges and spent perennials before renovation

BeforeAfter

A closer look

The gardens, up close.

Millbrook Sanctuary across its pond, with tussock planting, a schist wall and snow on the range behind — Millbrook Sanctuary

A wide kept lawn running up to a schist and timber house below a tussock hillside — Lawn and schist

Frost on tussock grasses at sunrise, with a pond and the hills beyond — Frost on tussock

A walled schist courtyard with clipped box hedging, a seat and an orchard beyond — A walled courtyard garden

Staked young trees inside a netted fence on a paddock, a shelter belt and hills behind — Netted against rabbits

New tussock planting, every plant in its own wire cage, on a bark bed — Caged planting

Young trees staked and guarded on a bark-covered planting, snowy peaks in the distance — Guards on young trees

A short timber bridge crossing tussock between two decks, trees behind — A deck bridge over tussock

Stone slab steps running up a planted bank to a house under blue sky — Stone steps up a planted bank

A glass pool fence on a gravel strip, steel edging keeping the lawn line — Glass, steel and gravel

A kept lawn in autumn, with a golden maple and red foliage along the boundary planting — Autumn in a kept garden

A dry garden of tussock, cabbage trees and river stone below The Remarkables at first light — Planting below The Remarkables

A predominantly female crew

The kind of detail that only shows up once you’re living in the garden, not just looking at photos of it.

If you would like to see work relevant to your own project, we would be glad to show you.

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