Get Outside Ltd

Get Outside Ltd We do Play Space Design, Landscape Architecture, Garden Design, Educational Environments, Playgrounds

Get Outside provides a specialist landscape architecture service for children's play spaces in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our designs respond to the unique environment and kaupapa of each place and community we work with including early childhood centres, schools, local authorities, local iwi and whānau, creating landscapes and gardens for people of all ages to enjoy living and playing in. We offer a f

ull landscape design service from concept design to detailed documents to overseeing the implementation of our plans.

We decided to call the garden "Whiria", meaning to weave...weaving together our ideas and building relationships as we d...
22/08/2026

We decided to call the garden "Whiria", meaning to weave...weaving together our ideas and building relationships as we design a garden...about weaving together ideas and building relationships!

Loving the process and the collaboration as much as the outcome!

The garden is being constructed by Parrot Landscapes. Come and see it at the Auckland Home Show, Thurs Sept 10 to Sun Sept 14 at the Auckland Showgrounds.

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Auckland Home Show

Was invited to design a garden for this year's inaugural Auckland Garden Show at the Auckland Home Show. Short time fram...
18/08/2026

Was invited to design a garden for this year's inaugural Auckland Garden Show at the Auckland Home Show. Short time frame but exciting opportunity!
Wanted to tell a story about how our different cultures in Aotearoa are woven together. So I invited two of my talented Māori ex-students from Wintec, Milly Ruru and Meretuahiahi Watene Ward , now capable landscape designers in their own right, to work with me to develop my initial ideas. Excited about where it has landed!
Come and see it at the show!
On Sept 10 to 14, Auckland Showgrounds
Auckland Home Show

Much as I loved teaching, my students and my peers at Wintec, its great to be back transforming spaces again! Enjoying t...
03/02/2026

Much as I loved teaching, my students and my peers at Wintec, its great to be back transforming spaces again!
Enjoying the creative process, from brainstorming and sketching, to CADing and detailing, to guiding the build and the planting...very satisfying, working with others to turn this drab, dark, chewing gum-plastered “barn” at Papakura High School into a cheerful and colourful social space where the students can enjoy their kai.

Our design evokes the portage this area once was, for the exchange of supplies between hapū of the Manukau Harbour and the Hunuas through river and wetland. Here the fertile soil also enabled the growing of crops for iwi, providing nourishment to the early settlers of Auckland.
Appropriate for this to be a dining area, a source of ora and inspiration for the young tauira of this fabulous kura/school!

01/02/2026

Haere mai, staff and students of 2026! Welcome to your beautiful kura!

Fun time last week being gardener for a couple of days in the garden we designed for Papakura High School, getting it al...
01/02/2026

Fun time last week being gardener for a couple of days in the garden we designed for Papakura High School, getting it all ready for the start of the new term. Plants are flourishing from all that summer rain! Reckon every designer should get their hands in the dirt and spend time at the local plant nurseries on a regular basis. Good for the soul....

Just lovely to see my own grandkids exploring and enjoying this garden i designed for the Auckland Botanic Gardens over ...
16/11/2025

Just lovely to see my own grandkids exploring and enjoying this garden i designed for the Auckland Botanic Gardens over 15 years ago. It's still being loved and cared for and looking good!

Must say I have thoroughly enjoyed this season of teaching landscape design to the wonderful Diploma in Landscape Design...
21/03/2025

Must say I have thoroughly enjoyed this season of teaching landscape design to the wonderful Diploma in Landscape Design students of Wintec, Te Putenga. (Such a shame that this government had to step in and muck things up - we are finishing up at the end of this year - but our time as a nation for a strong focus on protecting and nurturing our environment will come again - hopefully before we do any more really serious damage to it). Have loved passing on my skills and passion for this kaupapa, showing the students some cool projects including some of mine, learning alongside my students and other staff who all bring their own wisdom and knowledge to add to the kete. Time is coming to re-focus on my own business of design through Get Outside Ltd, working with those who work with children to make spaces that inspire their love of nature. The future is in good hands.

Part 2, Papakura High School new entry garden!Can always trust the team at Sturt Landscapes to do a fine job of laying o...
24/08/2023

Part 2, Papakura High School new entry garden!
Can always trust the team at Sturt Landscapes to do a fine job of laying out our curves and finding the plants we suggest to make the magic happen.
Ardmore Nurseries came to the party too with some freebies for the school.
Good team effort and makes such a difference to the school!

24/08/2023

Great turn out of the school hāpori on this beautiful morning for the blessing by Matua Haare Williams of the new front entry path and planting at Papakura High.

Blessed and almost ready for the tamariki to explore when term starts again after the Easter hols! Quite a transformatio...
06/04/2023

Blessed and almost ready for the tamariki to explore when term starts again after the Easter hols! Quite a transformation from the sad old multi-coloured / plastic play structures and fenced off sandpit that was here before (see last pic). Gotta love all those curves :)

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37 Anzac Road
Pukekohe East
2021

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+64211825002

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