Weekly maintenance, hedge & tree work, native planting, post-storm cleanup. From the Claudelands shed since 2015 — Hemi, Tamati, and Jess in third year.
(07) 853 4267The plants and trees we work with most weeks across Waikato gardens — what they want, when we touch them, and which service it falls under.
Kānuka · NZ tea-tree
Fast-growing native shelter shrub. We plant kānuka for windbreaks and riparian restoration along the Waikato river edge — tolerates frost, drought and clay-pan soils. Trim selectively in spring before flowering. Falls under our native planting work.
Kōhūhū · black matipo
The Waikato boundary-hedge of choice. Trims well to 1.8–2.4 m, holds shape through winter, doesn't shed onto the lawn. We shape pittosporum hedges twice a year — late autumn and mid-summer. Hedge work.
Harakeke · NZ flax
Riverbank stabiliser and bird-attracting nectar plant. We use harakeke on Waikato river-edge sections and as low-maintenance accent in driveways. Cut back dead fronds in late autumn; never shear the whole plant. Native planting & section maintenance.
Kōwhai · NZ yellow-flower tree
Iconic native — yellow August-September flowers feed tūī and bellbirds. We prune kōwhai sparingly, only after flowering. Plant in early autumn for best establishment. Native planting & tree work.
Koromiko
Drought-tolerant native shrub, white-flowering in late summer. Ideal for low-water Waikato sections and clay-soil borders. We use koromiko as a low hedge alternative to pittosporum where wind exposure is high. Native planting.
Ponga · silver fern
National emblem; we plant ponga in shaded gully sections across Hamilton and Cambridge gardens. Underplant with smaller native ferns (mamaku, hen & chicken). Don't trim the trunk — let it build naturally over years. Native planting & storm cleanup (silver ferns can split in cyclone winds).
Hemi and the team have looked after our place for four years. They turn up in the same ute every fortnight, they know where the pump-shed leak is, they leave a tidier section than the one before them. The kōwhai I asked them to plant in 2022 flowered for the first time this winter.
— S. Henare, repeat client since 2021
From the Claudelands shed we cover Hamilton East and the inner-Waikato suburbs day-to-day. Round trips out to Cambridge, Te Awamutu, the Tauwhare lifestyle blocks and up to Ngāruawāhia on a fortnightly rotation. Outside that we'll travel, with a small trip fee folded into the quote.
We split work into four buckets — pick whichever matches your section. Quotes are honest on the phone; written ones inside two business days.
Fortnightly is the standard — that suits most Hamilton and Cambridge sections through the growing season. Weekly for bigger lifestyle blocks or where the lawn really wants it (October through March in good rain years). We slow to monthly between June and August unless there's specific winter work on the list. The schedule is yours to pick.
Yes, where it makes sense — we have running accounts with Naturally Native in Cambridge and Wairere Nursery near Gordonton, and we'll source native eco-sourced stock for restoration projects through the Waikato Regional Council nursery list. You can also buy your own and we'll just plant — your call on the quote.
Included on every section-maintenance visit — we take it with us to the Horotiu transfer station the same week. Hedge clippings, prunings, lawn clippings, the lot. Large branch removal (over about a metre) is billed at $35 per cubic metre on top of the visit rate.
Yes — $1m NZD public liability through Vero, certificate emailed inside the day to any lifestyle-block owner or property manager who asks. Hemi holds Wintec Level 4 in Horticulture and we're members of the NZ Master Landscaping & Garden Association. GROWSAFE registered for any spray work (which we do sparingly).
Two minutes on the phone tells us whether it's a fortnightly slot, a one-off tidy or a half-day job. Either way you'll get a number in writing before any work starts.