Why choose Kate Ryan as your landscape designer in Auckland?

With careful attention paid to the timeline and budget, Kate and her team consistently deliver fantastic results with high quality finishes. Kate loves the design process of transforming properties to their full potential. A quality landscape not only increases property value, but also brings huge enjoyment to homeowners and their families, which Kate believes is truely worth the investment. Auckland Central homeowners are increasingly investing in outdoor entertainment spaces to extend their living space outside. A trend ideal for maximising the available space in Auckland inner city properties. At Zones we keep up with these trends and have the supply partners to provide a high-quality long-lasting landscape.

Kate grew up on a South Island hill country farm with a huge garden that battled the elements but which was an oasis amongst the Canterbury hills. Her family are passionate gardeners and environmentalists which lead to her interest in landscaping. Kate draws inspiration from her upbringing in the stunning South Island landscapes. Kate is married to Paddy with two children, Jessie and Tomas, living in the family-friendly suburb of Westmere. When she is not gardening, she enjoys walking the dog, yoga, skiing, fishing and entertaining friends.

Before entering the landscape world Kate went down the creative route of fashion and importing. Traveling extensively on buying trips through the United States and Europe as well as China checking production. Drawing inspiration from travels, seeing different architecture and cultures has been awesome for keeping an open mind and ideas for here. Kate has extensive experience working with buyers managing key accounts and supply management. Planning in the design phase in the fashion world, quoting and implementation is very similar to planning landscape work. Being creative to visualise a design, then making it come out as that vision with the best outcome is what Kate loves and is passionate about.

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