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CONTRACTING » Alpine Landscaping
Dec / Jan 2016 Business South
Landscaper with an eye for detail Jo Bailey Queenstown firm Alpine Landscaping has added the finishing touches to some of the region’s most prestigious properties. “We have worked on several large properties with homes ranging from $3 million to $10 million for New Zealand and overseas owners. “A lot of our work is high end, but we also look after some smaller properties,” says Mikey Cameron, who owns the company with his wife Anna. The firm works regularly with Suzanne Turley Landscapes, one of New Zealand’s top landscape architecture firms, he says. “We have worked with Suzanne on several projects. Her designs are elegant, based on balance and proportion, and often feature large specimen plants that create instant impact.” Alpine Landscaping is a multi-discipline company that carries out all hard and soft landscaping work, from constructing walls, bridges and decks, to planting, laying grass, irrigating and carrying out ongoing maintenance. “We have one team member dedicated to providing regular maintenance work which is a busy part of the business at this time of year.,” Mikey says. “He is currently looking after over a dozen properties, several of which are holiday homes with absentee owners.”
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“We’re currently building a stone seat with totara seating on its edge and no fixings showing. It’s a great design.” The firm is also a paving and stonemasonry specialist, laying flagstones and cobblestones, and creating stone features such as walls, stairs, indoor and outdoor fireplaces, letterboxes, entrances, and exterior cladding. Mikey says the team enjoys the opportunity to be creative, particularly when it comes to hard landscaping features. “We’re currently building a stone seat with totara seating on its edge and no fixings showing. It’s a great design.” Most of the larger projects take at least a couple of months to complete, with the Alpine Landscaping team recently spending 18 months on a holiday home project. “This was a lavish and quite spectacular project that included 1000sqm of stonework on the house and its surrounds. The stone for these sorts of projects is mainly sourced locally from Glen Dennison, who runs both Gibbston Stone and Millbrook Stone - which supplies our projects at Millbrook Resort.” Mikey has been in the industry for 24 years, and has run his own company for the last 12. “We have a small team of four at the moment after carrying up to nine when we were working on the big job last year. “ I’m quite comfortable with a smaller team as I like to be on the tools myself. I’m fussy, and can keep a closer eye on quality when I’m working on projects.” Mikey’s wife Anna handles the administration side of the business. They are happy to have plenty of forward work ahead, he says. “We’ve been busy all the way through, even during the recession.” He puts this down to the firm’s reputation for reliability, quality workmanship, honesty, an eye for detail and local knowledge. “The Queenstown climate has extremes of hot and cold weather, and we can advise on the most appropriate plants for the conditions.” Versatility is another key attribute of the firm, he says. “We pretty much cover everything when it comes to landscaping projects.”
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Alpine Landscaping is a multi-discipline company that carries out all hard and soft landscaping work, from constructing walls, bridges and decks, to planting and carrying out ongoing maintenance.
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