Inspired...Naturally
With a strong connection to nature and a depth of knowledge, Alexia collaborates with you to create bespoke, enduring landscape designs.
Listening to nature and enhancing its unique qualities, you and the environment will enjoy a customised, living piece of art, draped across your whenua / land.
How Alexia can help you
Alexia and her husband, Nick provide full-service landscape architecture, specialising in high-end bespoke design. Alexia's focus is design while Nick specialises in the practical aspects, together they install beautiful designs.
They will collaborate with you, as well as any architects, contractors and artisans to guide your project from ideas to final installation, from the first meeting to the last of the maintenance.
Alexia Hamelink Landscape Architecture specialises in plant selection, finding the right plant for the right place and aims to specify local materials and local people for each job.
Alexia & Nick strive to seamlessly integrate your landscape design into the existing landscape with understated elegance and natural beauty.
An intentionally bespoke company, giving each project the focus it deserves, attention is directed towards nature based solutions and working with the unique attributes of each landscape.
Founded on years of practical experience and formalised through qualifications, you can rest assured Alexia has what it takes to realise your landscape vision.
With years of practical expertise in the horticulture, landscaping and general outdoor world, Nick provides advice and hands-on guidance for projects.
The underlying approach to Alexia's design
Nature knows best
I like to collaborate with nature, listening to the opinion of the landscape and being guided by what exists within each unique location.
A drive to increase biodiversity and enhance or support our arawai / waterways directs my naturally native-based plant palettes; a sensitive approach to earthworks sees natural drainage and earthworks plans; natural and ‘of the place’ materials are the tools of my trade.
Nature will have the last say
I like to think we have a contract with taiao / the natural world that allows us to borrow the canvas of the landscape for our own piece of artwork.
Your landscape design (or artwork) will lay over previous works which will likely show through. What we create today will become the foundation for future artworks.
I love feeling the responsibility of creating a landscape which is informed by history, relevant in the present and considerate of the future.
Testimonials
"Alexia Hamelink was referred to us in 2014. At that time we had a large, relatively tidy but uninspiring garden. In a short space of time Alexia and Nick’s creativity added the missing factor that was required to add the colour and format that we craved.
Since then with their inspiration we have significantly expanded the garden into difficult terrain. Whilst we trust them in their designs and workmanship, they are consultative and superb executers of landscape/gardening projects - what more could we ask for?"
- Peter Ellis Havelock North
Testimonials
"Alexia Hamelink was referred to us in 2014. At that time we had a large, relatively tidy but uninspiring garden. In a short space of time Alexia and Nick’s creativity added the missing factor that was required to add the colour and format that we craved.
Since then with their inspiration we have significantly expanded the garden into difficult terrain. Whilst we trust them in their designs and workmanship, they are consultative and superb executers of landscape/gardening projects - what more could we ask for?"
- Peter Ellis Havelock North
Testimonials
"There is a garden in my neighbourhood that really appeals to me and stood out to be a little different, very groovy and obviously designed by a professional! I door knocked to find out who their landscaper was, which is how I found Alexia Hamelink. Now I too have a designer garden!
Alex and Nick have been so easy to work with. They took on board the size of our property, the climate, soil and all of my thoughts in relation to the type of garden I had in mind. They came up with such a fantastic combination of plants, layout and so much more. People often comment on our garden and I absolutely love it myself. Thank you Alex and Nick!"
- Andy Curran Havelock North
Contact
phone: 027 950 5372 email: alexia.hamelink@gmail.com
Alexia Hamelink (BLA, BSc)
Havelock North
Hawke’s Bay