Liz is a Landscape Architect and started her gardening career at the age of 4 growing sweetcorn in her own vegetable patch. A lifelong obsession with the outdoors began. Liz has fiendish organizational skills and just loves to get things done.

Paige is our Accountant, Office and HR manager.  She is likely your first port of call when you phone Busy Lizzy. She would like to consider herself a gifted kitchen-herb grower but we know her true skills lie not in the garden - but as our master of efficiency and organisation.

​

Cuan is a geology student who has worked with us in the holidays.  He has a passion for the outdoors and loves snowboarding and skateboarding and hopes to return to Busy Lizzy as a full time gardener when he has finished his studies.

Jen loves growing herbs for her latest culinary creation and when not gardening or cooking can be found in the yoga studio stretching her aching muscles.

​

​

Val is our botanical expert and is a certified horticulturalist having trained in NZ after his first career as a lawyer.  He is obsessed with citrus trees having a huge collection of over 30 different specimens of citrus plants!

​

​

Devon comes from a background in construction where he worked in varying roles including estimating and site management. He has a keen eye for detail, is solution oriented and prides himself on providing the highest quality customer service, from project inception through to delivery. 

Nick provides heavy duty gardening power to the team. He is our tree and hedge man as well as extremely knowledgeable plantsman.

With 25+ years experience we have yet to find a plant he doesn't know the name of...

​

Recently arriving in Auckland after many years in windy Wellington, Nick is our resident licensed builder. He loves landscape construction and has been wowing Auckland home owners with his precise work and charismatic charm. 

James is originally from the UK and loves living in NZ so he can indulge his passions of mountain biking and surfing when not in the garden.  He has been landscaping since the age of 16 and is one of our best hedge-trimmers.

​​

Lindsay is a Chartered Landscape Architect with several years experience in both Auckland and London design studios.  She manages projects from the initial client meeting to project completion, has a keen eye for detail and loves a good design challenge. 

​

Joep is our new Dutch gardener who loves to travel and learn new skills outdoors.  He is a skilled kick-boxer in his spare time so we try and keep on the right side of him!

​

​

Nathan is Nick's son has been a builder for 5 years. He is a specialist in drainage work and loves building decks. When not on the tools he can be found surfing or walking his new dog, Motley.

Louise has worked with Busy Lizzy for over 3 years and is now our maintenance manager  helping all our regular clients.  Originally from Sweden, she is still enthralled by Kiwi plants and would love to have at least one of everything she sees in her own garden.

Jack combines his Ironman training schedule with his work schedule - where digging holes and shifting soil at speed make for a fantastic workout. It is hard to know which he enjoys more...

​

​

​

Sarah is possibly the most hard-working gardener in Auckland and no weed stands a chance against her tenacity. She has the greenest fingers of anyone and can nurse seemingly dead plants back to life.

Jay is a real plantsman and loves all things green and growing. His special area of interest is fungi and he has quite a following on social media with some beautiful photographs!