Recent studies show, that spending time in nature, has amazing benefits
Cant get out there?
We've created micro landscapes, mini-gardens, that are portals into nature to enable you to experience these benefits from home or work!
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His story:
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South African born Glen Hubbard has always enjoyed nature and gardening and from an early age redesigned and developed his parents gardens, building fishponds and creating natural retreats. After school he began a BSc degree at Uni to pursue a career in Nature Conservation, but it was so remote from actually working in nature that he could not see the connect between a dry academic course and the vibrancy and beauty of nature and did not complete the course.
Being creative he later worked as a trainee Knitwear designer at Beatrice von Treskow knitwear who sent him to a local College to study clothing design. After he found much success as a designer, the owner/designer of the Knitwear factory got married and moved to Naples, offering Glen a job to start a clothing design business there, which Glen reluctantly declined.
Glen began his own small clothing design and manufacturing business which didn't meet with much success so he moved into doing home building alterations and additions and grew his construction business into eventually building new homes and landscaping, many of which he architecturally designed, having self taught himself on CAD.
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On a 'Look See Decide' trip he and his wife took in 2015 to New Zealand he immediately fell in love with the country and its stunning natural beauty.
A year later he and his family moved to New Zealand. While working and running a business called Concrete Innovations he studied a Landscape design diploma, his real passion.
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Glen discovered that his natural design inclination and talent is in designing gardens that feel and look like nature. A naturalistic garden isn't what everyone wants, even although there are many benefits to spending time in nature. A nature inspired garden enables you to enjoy these without having to find time to go tramping.
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To enable people to enjoy the benefits of nature Glen began creating micro-gardens in glass containers. Called Terrariums or if they have water features then called Paludariums for rent, where he takes care of the maintenance and upkeep.
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Testimonials
"Glen is a delight to deal with for garden landscape design. He worked closely with me, asking the right questions to get a full idea of my likes and dislikes, which helps him create a design full of personality and functionality along with suiting your own personal style. His ideas for purposeful use of space (especially when limited) is amazing. I love the design concept he created for our garden zone."
SHELLEY / PAPAMOA
Glen has designed many stunning gardens for me over the years. He is very creative and developed various areas that I enjoyed at different times during the day and seasons. Giving me gardens that added huge quality and value to my life and home. 5 stars.