Meri kirihimete me ngā mihi o te tau hou

This time last year we were signing off for the festive season as Aotearoa New Zealand was beginning to learn learn to live with Covid-19 in the community.

While we started the year with Omicron in full force, it didn’t prevent the landscape architecture profession here making huge strides and marking major milestones.

This is the biggest Christmas tree in New South Wales and sits in Martin Place in central Sydney. It is decorated with more than 110,000 LED lights, a 3.4-metre colour-changing star and 330 specially created glossy baubles. The tree’s 800 branches are dressed with 15,000 flowers representing 9 different kinds of Australian flowers: banksia, waratah, bottlebrush, wattle, eucalyptus gum flower, kangaroo paw, flannel flower, pink wax flower and white wax flower. Image credit - Vicki Clague.

2022 has been a hugely significant one for the profession but has also been a year when the world opened up again and kiwis got back to some sense of normality.

As we hit the year end tourists are coming back, New Zealanders are travelling and many of us are looking forward to a traditional kiwi summer.

As we sign off for the year just a reminder that we are always keen to hear from you with story ideas, projects to profile and the issues which are affecting the landscape architecture profession. You can email us here in the new year with all your ideas.

But for now we wish you all a wonderful festive season and look forward to working with you all in 2023. Ngā mihi o te wā.