Diva Landscapes
Hardwood decks stepping between tussock planting and a stone house with pergolas
Services

Hardscaping

The bones of the garden, built by us.

Get the hardscaping right and everything else follows. It's the bones of a garden: the levels, the surfaces, the lines. The planting is what fleshes it out. We build decks, retaining walls, paving, gravel paths, edging and fencing, and we do it as part of the whole picture rather than as separate trades turning up in sequence.

Retaining walls do more than hold a bank. On sloping sites they buy back usable ground, turning an awkward face into a level terrace you can sit in and enjoy the garden from. Edging does the quieter work, timber or steel, defining the junction between lawn, garden beds and pathways so the shapes hold season after season.

Earthworks

Every successful landscape starts with well-prepared ground. Our earthworks services cover site preparation and clearing, excavation, levelling, trenching and drainage, shaping and stabilising the land to suit your design.

Whether your project calls for terraces, retaining wall foundations, garden beds, pathways, or preparing areas for lawn, planting or irrigation, our experienced team brings the right machinery for the site and delivers precise, efficient results, including on the sloping and challenging ground common across the Whakatipu Basin.

Talk to us about your project and we'll provide expert advice and a detailed quote.

A small excavator cutting into a dry schist bank to shape the ground
A timber retaining wall holding a level lawn above a sloping bank
Stone steps climbing a planted bank to the house
Steel edging between lawn and a gravel strip beside a paved terrace
A small timber bridge between two decks over tussock planting
A glass pool fence set in white gravel, edged in steel against the lawn

Serving Queenstown, Arrowtown, Dalefield, Frankton, Fernhill, Jacks Point, Gibbston Valley, Glenorchy and the wider Whakatipu Basin.

Talk to us about your garden