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Now, in spring 2021, with demand certainly no less elevated, thanks in addition to the massive plantings attached to roading projects, deliveries are being pushed even further out.
How are our Christchurch landscapers dealing with this?
FORM Garden Architecture’s Craig Wilson: “I have told some clients to just wait until we can get the right plants – a plastic deck and even artificial turf can work, but plastic plants just don’t!”
Being busy is great for the landscape industry and its players, agrees Landscape Architect Tom Evans at Inside-Out Design (www.iodesign.co.nz), but planting has indeed been a pinch point: “Just being able to get that more advanced growth has been a real issue,” he says.
“A lot of the time we try and try to find an alternative if it’s more cost effective or more readily available, but if it’s not we’re pretty hamstrung in some instances and we just have to wait or pay...”
The broader supply chain being a lot slower means firms like Inside-Out are actively looking at sourcing more products locally. It also means paying more attention to managing expectations with clients and “trying to make sure that you’re not over-promising and under-delivering.”
Sourcing mature plants is also an issue for Ollie Newman
at Onlandscapes, who makes no bones that, although the landscaping business is “frantic” from his perspective, the firm has been experiencing more than the average number of projects stopping and starting.
This isn’t necessarily about shortfalls in landscape products but instead reflects the much talked about delays in and
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shortages of building and construction products facing developers and house builders.
“They might have a hold-up for a month for some framing,” he says. “So, we start and then all of a sudden, we have to leave, so that job is left open ... and it’s hard to get back when they want, because we might have four- or five-week job next up. It’s a bit of a juggling act at the moment.”
On top of the issues around plants, Ollie Newman and his team have experienced their own supply chain disruptions, mainly around timber and steel, however these delays have been of the order of a few days rather than weeks.
Swimming pools are hot right now in Christchurch, the downside being that again demand is outstripping supply: “If you want to put a swimming pool in, you’re waiting months, many months now, just in terms of supply,” says Craig Wilson, adding that demand for backyard pools has “gone off the scale”.
“Swimming pools are huge at the moment,” agrees Ollie Newman, “There wouldn’t be a week go by where we’re not paving around a swimming pool,” he says, sharing that some of the “renovation” work he’s involved in is of such a scale that they are almost as substantial as a completely new build.
It’s clear that there is much happening for these professionals.
Their changing landscape (forgive the pun) includes adapting to be able to achieve more with less, often facing delays and seeking alternative means to an end.
And as usual they’re somewhat at the mercy of other professionals within the building industry.
Are they downhearted? Not a bit, even if they haven’t got the time to lounge around their own swimming pools...
42 NZHJ | NOVEMBER 2021
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