{"id":3327,"date":"2023-08-26T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T23:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2025-05-26T18:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:57:32","slug":"our-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/?p=3327","title":{"rendered":"North Shore Wilds garden services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We started this business just before Christmas last year, encouraged by comments from people who have enjoyed watching the progress of Gahnia Grove, the restoration project in Eskdale Reserve which we began in 2018 for pleasure and for our own further research into the most economical way to control weeds and restore the plant communities native to this area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our methods of restoring or creating outdoor order and beauty  are very different from what is commonly practised commercially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, Phoenix palm seedlings quickly become deeply rooted. We never dig them out. The photo below shows two of them, each controlled within seconds by knotting its few leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/08\/JoW-phoenix-sdlgs-knotted-20230329_152029-5000x2813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3843\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/08\/JoW-phoenix-sdlgs-knotted-20230329_152029-5000x2813.jpg 5000w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/08\/JoW-phoenix-sdlgs-knotted-20230329_152029-1620x911.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/08\/JoW-phoenix-sdlgs-knotted-20230329_152029-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/08\/JoW-phoenix-sdlgs-knotted-20230329_152029-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/08\/JoW-phoenix-sdlgs-knotted-20230329_152029-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/08\/JoW-phoenix-sdlgs-knotted-20230329_152029-1320x743.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">phoenix palm seedlings knotted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about what to expect, based on our experience over the year and the feedback of our customers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons has-custom-font-size has-medium-font-size is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1fb9aab6 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 has-custom-font-size is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/?page_id=3808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What to expect<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started this business just before Christmas last year, encouraged by comments from people who have enjoyed watching the progress of Gahnia Grove, the restoration project in Eskdale Reserve which we began in 2018 for pleasure and for our own further research into the most economical way to control weeds and restore the plant communities &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/?p=3327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;North Shore Wilds garden services&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[50,46,38,37],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-services","tag-handweeding","tag-native-regeneration","tag-services","tag-weed-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}