Garden Visit: Landscaping for a Modern House in Christchurch, New Zealand

“The garden is a very important part of the living environment,” says Kristina Pickford, owner of the Ballantyne House, a midcentury modern home designed by Sir Miles Warren in 1959. The 300-square-meter house sits on 2,642 square meters in Christchurch. Since 2009, Pickford and Michael Wolfe have cultivated the garden with local experts, adding a steel pergola, raised vegetable beds, drainage, and automatic irrigation while preserving mature trees.

For interiors, see our Remodelista post. For more midcentury modern, see The Wood House, Glass House lessons, and Midcentury Meets Zen.