Welcome to Phocas Gardening! 

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Chester Nevil is your trusted partner in creating and maintaining beautiful garden spaces, tailored to your needs and desires.

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From cut-flower farms to nurseries, seed farms to amenity garden maintenance and design, Chester's horticultural experience is diverse and extensive. Backed by years of training and qualifications, this ensures your garden won't miss a beat and will be looked after meticulously and approached holistically. 

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Outside of the garden, Chester is also a musican and composer. Having recently completed a Bmus in Composition at Victoria University of Wellington, Chester is now engaged in comission proposals, competitons, and workshops curated for the emerging composer. In recent events, his work The Cherubic Hymn (for unaccompanied mixed chorus SSAATTBB) was selected as a category winner in the 2025 Compose Aotearoa! Competition.

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Below are some photos from a very small project Chester intiated with his family last year for a bit of fun and in an effort of beautification, putting a new garden bed into our Church lawn. Complete with rosemary domes, panicle hydrangeas, english lavender and salvias, this bed will be thriving with a few years under its belt!