Yvette Michalska

Yvette is passionate about helping others create beautiful outdoor spaces and gardens. She created her own dream garden at home after enrolling on a couple of design courses and catching the “vision”.  After much deliberation and several designs, she finally settled on one. Then hardscaped and planted it up “with quite a bit of help from her whanau and credit card”. Anything is achievable when the design is done!

Times are changing. More people want an outdoor space that’s beautiful and has areas for specific purposes especially for families and entertaining.  Yvette shows how it’s possible to achieve all of this and now, more than ever, establish restful outdoor retreats as valuable extras when working from home.

As a trained teacher “back in the day”, Yvette loves delivering exciting workshops that are packed with information, interactive and fun to be part of. Taking on the challenges of questions, problems and never-seen-before scenarios of student gardens is what keeps bringing her back!

With 10 years of design experience Yvette also offers professional services within the Wellington region and through postal services further afield. But being a people person at heart there is another big dream - to help communities repurpose shared, uninspiring outdoor spaces into vibrant, attractive havens which will encourage relationships and reduce isolation and loneliness.