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Nick Robinson

Nick is a landscape and garden designer with over twenty years experience of designing, creating and managing private and public gardens in New Zealand and UK. He is also a design teacher and lecturer and is the author of the Planting Design Handbook (published by Routledge, third edition 2016) along with many articles on design and planting.

A special interest is beautiful and bio-diverse design for plants and wildlife in the garden as well as in the wider environment. Nick's gardens are created as 'pollinator paradises' providing foraging and shelter for the many beneficial insects that visit gardens. 

Nick is a Professionally Accredited Designer with the Garden Design Society of New Zealand, has a HND in Landscape and Horticulture Technology from Askham Bryan College, York, UK, a Masters in Landscape Design from University of Sheffield UK, and he is a chartered member of the Landscape Institute, a registered member of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, and member of the Institute of Horticulture.