Publications

Landscape Architecture NZ magazine; Summer 2012

The regional planting guides continue to move south, with this account of plants of the Waikato. Philip's image of Sporadanthus traversii graced the cover of this issue of the magazine.

Landscape Architecture NZ magazine; Spring 2012

This is the second instalment in the series of regional planting guides, in which Philip looks into plants of Auckland.

Landscap Architecture NZ magazine; Winter 2012

This was the first of an ongoing series of regional planting guides (spread over the following three years), whose purpose is to encourage landscapers to look into their own distinctive local plants.

Landscape Architecture NZ magazine; Spring 2011

In this planting guide, Philip highlighted regional diversity amongst kowhai - an important topic considering the need to avoid excessive hybridisation between our eight distinctive species of Sophora.

Landscape Architecture NZ magazine; Summer 2011

In this planting guide, Philip focussed on our native species of Metrosideros, and their use within landscape design.

Landscape Architecture NZ magazine; Autumn 2010

This article is one of Philip's regular planting guides, for Landscape Architecture NZ magazine. It concerns the use of native ferns within gardens and landscape work.

Landscape Architecture NZ magazine; Summer 2009

This article, from the latter end of 2009, profiles O2 Landscapes' coastal garden at Leigh, with a special focus on the use of drystone walls and concretework, as well as the place of threatened native species within the garden.

Landscape Architecture NZ magazine; Summer 2009

This planting guide concerned native species that have the ability to colonise the human landscape effectively, and emerge spontaneously as native 'weeds'. They can teach us interesting lessons, and many are especially gardenworthy subjects, on account of their resilience.

In this article of 2008, HOME New Zealand magazine profiled our gully garden in Parnell.

'The Garden' ; Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society; November 2006

In 2006, Philip Smith wrote an article for 'The Garden', on plants and habitats of New Zealand, as part of a New Zealand special within the November issue. We consider 'The Garden', as the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, to be the foremost garden publication in the world, and as such the opportunity to have work published within it was a great honour. We would like to thank the editors of 'The Garden' and photographers whose work contributed to the article (Andris Apse, Gil Hanly, Rob Lucas and Derek Fell), for their kind permission to reproduce the article on the O2 Landscapes website. We would also like to thank Dive Tutukaka for the reproduction of their image of the Poor Knights Islands.

New Zealand Garden Journal Dec. 04

Sunday 20 Feb. 05

Greening the City 2003 - The suitability of a native grass species, Microlaena stipoides, for use as an amenity turfgrass in the Auckland region. Contribution towards the 2003 "Greening the City" conference, held by the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture.