Landscaping • Outdoor living • New Zealand
Plan your outdoor project, understand likely costs and create a clearer brief before you speak with local landscaping professionals.
Explore by project
Begin with the part of your property you want to change. Each pathway brings together options, cost drivers and local planning notes.
A complete plan for softscape, hardscape and site preparation.
Explore project →02Turn priorities, site constraints and a budget into a coherent brief.
Explore project →03Shape planting, circulation and year-round character for your section.
Explore project →04Compare timber, concrete, block and gabion wall approaches.
Explore project →05Plan materials, usable area, access and indoor–outdoor flow.
Explore project →06Understand surface water, site fall and practical drainage options.
Explore project →Project calculator
Build a planning estimate from your location, site conditions and project mix. We show the assumptions, a typical range and the factors most likely to move it.
Planning range preview
Your result will respond to the project choices you make. It is an early planning guide, not a contractor quote.
Local intelligence
Cost & planning library
Evidence-led guides help you compare materials, understand scope and ask better questions.
Ready when you are
Share the essentials once, keep your scope clear and request relevant landscaping quotes.
How it works
Explore the service, cost and location pages relevant to your project — sequencing, access, drainage and typical cost drivers — so you arrive at a calculator or quote form with informed questions rather than a guess from a single photo.
Use a calculator to turn location, approximate size, site condition and finish level into an early planning range. It's a starting number, not a quote, but it's enough to sense-check a budget before you talk to anyone.
Request quotes using the scope you've already prepared — location, project type, size, budget band and timing carry across automatically from a calculator, so you're not answering the same questions twice.
Common questions
No. This is an independent planning and quote-request platform — research, cost guides and calculators to help you scope a project, then a structured form to request quotes from local landscaping professionals. We don't employ tradespeople or carry out work ourselves.
No. The calculators and quote form are free to use, and requesting quotes through the site does not commit you to proceeding with any project or contractor.
They're early planning ranges built from stated assumptions, not site-specific quotes. Real pricing depends on details a calculator can't see — exact access, ground conditions, material specification — so treat the range as a starting point for a conversation, not a fixed figure.
Sources & methodology
Cost ranges are planning assumptions built around stated inputs, not live market data. Location context draws on public council, building.govt.nz and NIWA climate information, treated as general planning context rather than a current authoritative statement for any specific address — see our editorial policy for the full approach.