Botanic news and inspiration
Rugged on Rēkohu
Botanic's 2024 field trip was to Rēkohu / Chatham Islands - a fascinating place with diverse landscapes, plant communities and cultures. A week spent getting to know the place, meeting the locals and savouring the local kaimoana.
A win for the gin!
Botanic are delighted to win a He iti Pounamu Award of Excellence at the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects 2024 awards for the ‘Botanic Gin Project’ - creating the taste of the urban landscape in liquid form while growing our design community along the way.
Soaking up garden inspiration
It’s refreshing to seek new ideas and gain inspiration. Recently the Botanic team headed up to the Sauvignon Blanc clad valleys of Marlborough for the 2024 New Zealand Gardens Trust Conference.
Joining over 120 gardeners, horticulturalists and designers Adrian and Paul toured fantastic and diverse gardens, chatted with like-minded colleagues, imbibed some of the local vino, and listened closely to knowledgeable speakers.
Botanic Gin Project
Like designing a planting scheme, crafting a gin uses the flavour and fragrant properties of each plant to design an overall composition.
Every year we host people from our design community to forage fresh botanicals growing in the public urban gardens of Ōtautahi Christchurch, and then we co-craft a gin together in the Botanic studio.
We are literally creating the taste of our urban landscape!
Botanic opens it doors
And we are… live! Welcome to Botanic Landscape Architects, a newly opened boutique landscape architect studio founded by two of the most trusted names in landscape architecture in Canterbury.