Seasonal garden care
Regular visits through the year — weeding, deadheading, mulching, feeding and keeping the beds looking cared for.
Weekly, fortnightly or monthlyTawa and surrounding suburbs
Gardens tended with a light touch
Little Bird Gardening is a small, seasonal gardening service — planting, pruning and quiet upkeep that lets your garden look after itself a little better each year.
Kia ora
A gentler way to keep a garden
I work with what’s already growing — reading the soil, the light and the season before reaching for the secateurs. No blowers at dawn, no scorched earth. Just steady, thoughtful care that suits your garden and the way you live in it.
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Services
How I can help
Whether you want a garden held steady or gently reimagined, everything starts with a walk around together.
Pruning & shaping
Roses, fruit trees, hedges and shrubs pruned at the right time of year, for health first and shape second.
Season-dependentPlanting & planting plans
Right plant, right place — from filling a bare bed to a full planting plan with natives, perennials and edibles.
Plans from a single visitGarden restoration
Bringing a neglected or overgrown garden back to something you want to sit in again, one section at a time.
Staged over several visitsGift a gardener
A voucher for someone whose garden — or whose free time — could use a hand. Any amount, no expiry.
VouchersCompanion gardening
Someone to garden alongside you — companion planting, except the companion is a person.
HourlyAlso available: vegetable & herb gardens — setting up, refreshing or coaching you through a productive patch that actually gets eaten.
In the garden
What's happening right now
Seasonal notes, jobs worth doing this month, and what's looking lovely.
Late winter: the garden starts to stir
Bare branches, swelling buds and the first hellebores. This is the quiet fortnight where everything you do now shows up in November.
- Finish the winter rose prune before the buds break
- Feed citrus and mulch around the drip line
- Lift and divide crowded perennials while they're dormant
Midwinter: soil, structure and secateurs
The slowest month, and the best one for the jobs nobody notices — soil, drainage, and the shape of things.
- Prune deciduous fruit trees while dormant
- Plant bare-root roses and hedging
- Spread compost over empty beds and let the worms work
Let's walk around your garden together
Tell me a little about your patch and what you'd love it to feel like. First visit and quote are free.
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