About Baz
Baz set up Capital Garden Care as a boutique Wellington city business to satisfy his love of gardens, plants, planting design and building stuff. He retired as a landscape architect with 20 years experience in local government park and garden design, upkeep and contract management and is well versed with the city’s environment, its plants and its people.
Baz is focused on helping you create and keep a beautiful, relaxing and inviting garden around your home.
SERVICES
Love your garden, want some help?
Baz provides:
- skilled gardening
- design and plant care advice
- regular care packages
- action planning and
- garden design and construction
Skilled gardening
This is charged at an hourly rate of only $48.88* (includes GST) plus itemised material and disposal costs. Typically, Baz will recommend and undertake trimming and pruning for plant presentation, weed control (with herbicides and by hand), and season specific tasks like planting, fertilising and pruning to promote flowering.
He also repairs paths, steps, walls, decks and fences!
*There is a minimum charge of $85 a visit.
Garden Consultation
Baz walks through your garden, talking with you about what you want from your garden and how you can achieve it. This takes about an hour. Then he digests that and prepares a written report summarising the conversation with recommendations for immediate and future action.
This is a service for people who want sensible design oriented advice based on detailed and extensive knowledge of plants and growing conditions in Wellington.
The price is quite variable as it is tailored to each consultation. Typically it will range around $150, up to $1500, depending on the time and detail requested in the written report.
Garden Care Package
This is based on an annual programme of works that is more efficient than repeated requests for skilled gardening. It also ensures that tasks are done at the optimum timing for your garden. Baz focuses on the presentation of front gardens and those seen from the main living rooms. Many clients also include outdoor living areas like terraces or patios, children’s play areas or the whole space around their home.
A quote or itemised estimate for the annual programme is provided with client payment monthly. Over time the programme may be varied depending on how the garden evolves or if the home owners expectations change, with the monthly payment adjusted accordingly.
Garden Action Plan
This is a garden care package with a specific future goal. Typical goals are to ensure optimum presentation when the property is put on sale, or for a special event like a wedding.
Garden Design and construction
For renovating or redeveloping a garden as your tastes or needs change. Commonly this includes the design and construction of new or replacement landscape elements, including both hard landscaping and planting.
Free Offer!
Text “Advice Please”
to 021 0836 6895
for a 20 minute on-site consultation with Baz
Terms of Service
I apply a flat labour rate of $48.88/hr (includes GST), with a minimum visit time of 1.5 hours
In addition, I charge to you the cost of materials, disposal and travel incurred while on your job (though not on travel to your job).
I invoice monthly or when a job is completed. Payment is expected within 7 days. A late payment fee of 5% per month may be charged.
Projects
My lawn is a mixed herb ley
Yes, it is full of weeds, and full of life! As well as ryegrass and fescue, it has flowering perennial herbs. Some are natives, most are colonials from elsewhere. Their flowers nurture insects, the plants don’t rely on fertilizer or pesticides, and they give shelter to many of our small native insects.
Wellington has some pretty weeds
Toadflax (Linaria purpurea) is a common self-sown European colonial sprouting out of old asphalt and on roadside banks. It’s quite short lived but is effortless to grow and flowers for months on end. On the left side of the photo is some pink centranthus (false valerian). There is a large patch of it near the traffic control lights at the slip in Ngaio Gorge Rd. It too is short lived though tough and flowers for some months. But now I am day dreaming of fat blackberries down in the gorge.
I planted a pretty snowflake viburnum
Viburnums do great in Wellington. They like moist clay soils and stand up to the wind well. This pretty one is deciduous so it likes a bit of shelter from our spring gales, though. However, it doesn’t get thrips like the evergreen types and it only cost $5 in a remainder bin at Mitre 10. It flowers before Christmas. The flowers are earlier and more dainty than a lacecap hydrangea. In full blush a mature bush looks like a tiered wedding cake. Later it has repeated bursts of scattered flowers through the summer.
My covid project
Before lockdown this was an asphalt driveway. Here it is 6 months later, Spring 2020. New wooden stairway, new paved steps, new fences, new earth bank. Planting started and it will only get better.
What People Say About Me
“Baz is excellent in every way. He’s very knowledgable, capable, and trustworthy,
and he has a great eye for plants and plant form.”
Jenny Ann Binns
District Court Judge
Contact Baz
Text to 021 0836 6895 or complete this form.