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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 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 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 starting with small jobs and (self-taught) home building renovations 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 nature inspired garden enables you to enjoy these without having to find time to go tramping.

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Naturalistic, New perennial, Meadow gardens, Forest floor or woodland, to mention a few of the names used for these gardens that mimic nature.

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He also creates micro-gardens in glass containers which really show of his Forest floor style

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