Kate Ryan - Auckland Landscaping Specialist

Kate Ryan - Auckland Landscaping Specialist
Name
Kate Ryan
Role
Landscaping Consultant
Manager
Location

Regina Street, Westmere, Auckland 1022

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Kate Ryan is Landscaping Consultant of Woodbury Landscapes Ltd, a franchisee of Zones Outdoor Renovations Ltd, doing business in Auckland.

Kate brings 22 years of experience working in the clothing industry where she was a buyer and account manager for well-known household brands in New Zealand.

With a keen eye for design and detail, she has extensive experience working with clients and suppliers, and building strong relationships with clear communications. She understands and enjoys the process of creating the best design to suit her clients, for the right budget and delivering a quality finish.

While project managing her own award winning house and garden, her interests grew in the build and landscaping processes. Creating well thought out, striking designs that fit the Kiwi lifestyle is so rewarding, and Kate is excited to help clients achieve this for themselves. What makes the Zones offer so appealing to clients is dealing with one point of contact to coordinate the entire process. Kate saw firsthand how tiring it is dealing with numerous contractors, especially at the end of a house build.

Kate has studied Landscape Design and loves the design process transforming properties to their full potential. The value added not only in increasing the property sale price but also the huge enjoyment value of your landscaped outdoor spaces, Kate believes is truely worth the investment. The major trend for creating great outdoor living and entertaining spaces, extending the indoor living outside, has increased hugely over the last few years. With Zones we keep up with these trends and have the supply partners to give a topnotch landscaping service.

Before entering the landscape world Kate went down the creative route of fashion and importing. Traveling extensively on buying trips through the United States and Europe as well as China checking production. Drawing inspiration from travels, seeing different architecture and cultures has been awesome for keeping an open mind and ideas for here. Kate has extensive experience working with buyers managing key accounts and supply management. Planning in the design phase in the fashion world, quoting and implementation is very similar to planning landscape work. Being creative to visualize a design, then making it come out as that vision with the best outcome is what Kate loves and is passionate about.

Kate grew up on a South Island hill country farm with a huge garden that battled the elements but which was an oasis amongst the Canterbury hills. Her family are passionate gardeners and environmentalists which lead to her interest in landscaping. Kate draws inspiration from her upbringing in the stunning South Island landscapes.

Kate is married to Paddy with two children, Jessie and Tomas, living in the family-friendly suburb of Westmere. When she is not gardening, she enjoys walking the dog, yoga, skiing, fishing and entertaining friends.

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Kate Ryan is Landscaping Consultant of Woodbury Landscapes Ltd, a franchisee of Zones Outdoor Renovations Ltd, doing business in Auckland.

Awards & Recognition

  • Year
  • Award
  • 2023

  • Creative Project of the Year

  • 2023

  • Design and Build of the Year

  • 2023

  • Marketer of the Year

  • 2023

  • Landscaping Consultant of the Year

  • 2023

  • Franchise of the Year Finalist

  • 2023

  • Customer Service of the Year Finalist

  • 2022

  • Landscape of the Year

  • 2022

  • Landscape of the Year

  • 2022

  • Best Marketing of the Year

  • 2022

  • Sales Growth of the Year

  • 2022

  • New Franchise of the Year

  • 2021

  • Best Marketing of the Year

  • 2020

  • Best Marketing of the Year

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Locations

Regina Street, Westmere, Auckland 1022

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Kate Ryan

Kate did a great job transforming our backyard. It is a smallish area with quite a bit of decking, involving different levels. An excellent project manager where nothing was a problem and always followed up on matters. We had quite strong ideas of what we wanted and she made some great suggestions to improve on these ideas. Alastair and his great team of guys worked solidly and we are very happy with the finish. They always arrived on time, were friendly and kept the site tidy. They also had to coordinate with The Shed Shop guys who supplied our shed, which had to be assembled on site. They were even complimented by James, of the Shed Shop, on the great support joists they built for it.

Landscaping Consultant: Kate Ryan

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Marie Low

, Zones Customer

Guy and his team have worked on two renovations for us and both have been hassle free thanks to their professionalism, consideration and can-do attitude. Genuinely helpful, adaptable in their work and very tidy! A real pleasure to deal with, we wouldn't use anyone else for our building work.

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Kate did a great job transforming our backyard. It is a smallish area with quite a bit of decking, involving different levels. An excellent project manager where nothing was a problem and always followed up on matters. We had quite strong ideas of what we wanted and she made some great suggestions to improve on these ideas. Alastair and his great team of guys worked solidly and we are very happy with the finish. They always arrived on time, were friendly and kept the site tidy. They also had to coordinate with The Shed Shop guys who supplied our shed, which had to be assembled on site. They were even complimented by James, of the Shed Shop, on the great support joists they built for it.

Landscaping Consultant: Kate Ryan

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Marie Low

, Zones Customer

We couldn't be more happier with our new landscaping and outdoor living areas. Kate and the team gave us a great designed and then brought that to life and finished everything to a very high standard. We are very happy and would highly recommend.

Landscaping Consultant: Kate Ryan

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Cameron King

, Zones Customer

Wonderful landscaping. Kate and Vaughan were so easy and professional to work with. The end result was better than we could have imagined. We had great choice with expert advice every step of the way. And changes were accomodated, and talked through with pros and cons. Not having a fully formed idea of what end result we were looking for the experience Kate and Vaughan bought made the whole process easy, exciting and we are so glad we made the decision.

Landscaping Consultant: Kate Ryan

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Claudine Rogers

, Zones Customer

Dealing with Zones and Kate has been a pleasure and effortless experience. Responsive, professional, reliable, prompt and accommodating. We are very happy with the final product, finished just in time for the outdoors season. Thank you!

Landscaping Consultant: Kate Ryan

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Anna and Tony

, Zones Customer

Kate and her team turned our backyard into a place we all love spending time in - at all times of the year. Kate had great ideas throughout the process, while also listening and incorporating our thoughts. The contractors she used were all easy to communicate with and respectful to us while working at our home. Kate was adaptable, making changes to the project as ideas changed while the vision came to life. Even our citrus plants survived being transplanted! I would highly recommend Kate and her team, we wouldn't hesitate contacting her for any future projects.

Landscaping Consultant: Kate Ryan

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Gillian Doyle

, Zones Customer

We would happily recommend Kate and her team to anyone thinking about landscape works around the house. We’re extremely pleased with the amazing work Kate’s team has done for us. Highly professional and diligent team, offering good friendly tips, hard-working even during the worst winter days.

Landscaping Consultant: Kate Ryan

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Corina Hoon

, Zones Customer

Kate was excellent at organising this whole project and her landscapers were also excellent in the quality of their work as well as initiative in dealing with a very difficult site. The project was completed in good time inspite of the various covid restriction in place at the time. They also left the surroundings very tidy. I now have an attractive garden which is easy to maintain.

Landscaping Consultant: Kate Ryan

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Heather Lees

, Zones Customer

Kate and the team created a wonderful space for us totalling transforming our outdoor space. It was a tricky job with many sub-trades included and eventuated with a pool area, outdoor kitchen and completely transformed space. The design was fantastic and added some new ideas to our original thoughts. Kate kept us up to date and involved each week and all the sub-trades were professional and very respectful on site. We are now enjoying a great outspace for the summer. 

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Janine Banfield

, Zones Customer

Kate and the team created a wonderful space for us totalling transforming our outdoor space. It was a tricky job with many sub-trades included and eventuated with a pool area, outdoor kitchen and completely transformed space.

The design was fantastic and added some new ideas to our original thoughts. Kate kept us up to date and involved each week and all the sub-trades were professional and very respectful on site.

We are now enjoying a great out space for the summer.

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Craig and Janine Banfield

, Zones Customer

Kate and her team were very easy to deal with and very professional. They took on board our brief and came up with a smart, cost effective and exciting design to suit our family. They created a design with good entertainment space and incorporated space for a pool and the kids to play. We were very happy with their service in particular their communication during lockdown.

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Alex Bamford

, Zones Customer

Kate did a great job transforming our backyard. It is a smallish area with quite a bit of decking, involving different levels. An excellent project manager where nothing was a problem and always followed up on matters. We had quite strong ideas of what we wanted and she made some great suggestions to improve on these ideas. Alastair and his great team of guys worked solidly and we are very happy with the finish. They always arrived on time, were friendly and kept the site tidy. They also had to coordinate with The Shed Shop guys who supplied our shed, which had to be assembled on site. They were even complimented by James, of the Shed Shop, on the great support joists they built for it.

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Marie Low

, Zones Customer

Kate was a pleasure to deal with from start to finish. Responsive and with a great eye for garden detail. We built a large new deck, installed an outdoor fire and replanted. She went the extra mile to ensure our project was finished quickly and to a very high standard. Great communicator. We would highly recommend Kate.

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Vicky Lewis

, Zones Customer

We asked Kate to do a landscape plan for a large almost unusable back yard with a fairly tight budget. We wanted a deck built, a play area created for the children and some additional privacy. Kate was very responsive to all questions, very upfront about costs, managed all contractors and oversaw the lot. The result has been great; in summer the kids play mainly outdoors and our backyard is very popular with the neighbourhood children! Great added value- thanks Kate. 

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Mary Grogan

, Zones Customer

I recently listed my house for sale, and asked Kate from Zones to put together a plan to tidy up the front garden and driveway area to achieve maximum impact in a short period of time. Kate did a brilliant job - she has such a good eye and just knows what you should bother doing versus not. Everything Kate suggested looked fantastic, from the driveway and electric gate to the garden beds, ready lawn and planting plan. And to top it all off, Kate is lovely to deal with. Her quiet calm demeanor makes her so easy to deal with. I could not recommend her highly enough. 

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Jennifer O'Hara

, Zones Customer

We used Kate Ryan from Zones Landscaping when she was first starting out and she did a fantastic job. Her communication and management skills are excellent - she took the worry off our hands and delivered a fantastic result, on budget and on time. She also gave us invaluable advice about which plants would suit our conditions and budget. We highly recommend her.

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Sarah Davis Holroyd

, Zones Customer

Just home. Garden looks just AMAZING!!! Alistair and his team are legends. They've even filled the side garden and mulched it. I owe those boys some beers. They've left now but please do let them know how much I love it. They nailed the Buddha and the rock location. Just stoked. LOVE my gorgeous garden. Will buy sprinklers over the weekend so please let me know what type and watering instructions. Thanks so much for your work on this project Kate. A long process but I'm just delighted. Looking forward to some grass too!

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Morven McAuley

, Zones Customer

The team delivered prompt, efficient service with good communication.

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Andrew Skinner

, Zones Customer