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We are proud of the following testimonials received from our clients and quote as follows:

Thanks Sean for a job well-done, your design, management and

execution of the project were first rate.

Sean has helped us with a wide range of landscaping and gardening projects from a full landscaping design and supply at our beach house, which is absolutely stunning to view, to plans for a redesign of our home decking project, split level and incorporating plants and water fountain and down to smaller advice and support including types of spray to use on a variety of plants, pruning and seasonal plant advice. We would thoroughly recommend Sean, without hesitation, for any landscape, design or gardening projects.

Kind regards

Sarah & Mark Carr 15 September 2009

I have known Sean Leighton for seventeen years. During this time Sean has bee engaged in landscaping work originally owing his own garden centre and of more recent years operating a successful landscape contracting business Leighton's Landscaping Ltd.

Hopper Developments and a number of its subsidiary and associated companies have used Sean to carry out landscaping work on either subdivisions or housing developments. The Companies who have engaged Sean include Cranston Homes Ltd., Kakariki Views subdivision and of course Hopper Developments Ltd.

His work, for us, has covered full design and implementing whole subdivision landscaping works through to maintenance work on a number of projects. He has also carried out numerous individual house site landscaping jobs for us.

Sean has a wide knowledge of plants and design and given his hands on experience provides an excellent service to his customers, he is hard working and very customer focused. He is extremely honest and ensures that he only employs top people to work for him.

I have no hesitation in recommending Sean as a landscape contractor and am happy to provide any further verbal reference that may be required.

The Property Division of the Rodney District Council have employed Leighton's Landscaping Ltd. over a number of years for the landscaping and maintenance of the following projects:

We have worked very well with Sean and found him approachable, flexible and professional. Some of the work involved major revegetation and redesigns and these projects have worked well over the years. The maintenance work was done at all the sites mentioned above.

Leighton's Landscaping have been involved with our school on a number of projects. The most recent project was to plant an area of the school with over 4000 plants and trees. Sean Leighton as Project Manager provided the concept, secured the tender, organised contract growers, organised a significant volunteer labour and contracted staff and saw the whole project through from start to finish.

Sean has a professional and flexible approach to his projects and always works to provide the best possible outcomes for our school and we are very happy to recommend him and his Company.

If there is anything that you would like to discuss with me please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Sean Leighton of Leighton’s Landscaping has been engaged by Red Beach School now on numerous occasions to implement landscaping tasks both large and small. At all times Sean has been extremely helpful and informative in supporting the school’s personnel as to the best landscaping decisions possible. His knowledge of both products and suitable environments is excellent. Sean is a pleasant courteous person to work with. We all enjoy his sense of humour and positive personality. I have no hesitation in recommending him.

As a Trustee of the Lumsden Family Trust I am pleased to advise that I have known Sean Leighton for the past 10 years. Leighton's Landscape Services have maintained our commercial properties over this period.

I am happy to recommend Sean as a thoroughly reliable , trustworthy and hard working man who gives wholeheartedly of himself in any situation in which he becomes involved.

We initially made contact with Sean Leighton of Leightons Landscape Services just on 12 months ago. We have a property of 4 acres, with about 1 ½ acres of gardens, which were in need of professional design help.

Sean advised us on what was necessary to create the garden we were wanting, including culling of plants that were inhibiting growth of other plants and additional planting necessary. We have found Sean to have a very impressive and extensive knowledge of plants and trees – their needs and requirements. Sean listened to what we were wanting to achieve and offered excellent suggestions, ensuring the short and long term vision for our gardens were met.

Sean and his team have now also been looking after our on-going monthly maintenance since the initial work. This includes weeding, fertilising, pruning and planting as required. We have found Sean and his workers to be very honest, reliable, thorough and professional at all times.

We would have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Sean for your Landscape Design or Monthly Maintenance requirements for your gardens.

We have owned and operated a Residential Property Management business on the Hibiscus Coast for the last 4 years. During this time we have regularly employed Sean Leighton and his team's services to maintain gardens at our properties and also had Sean design and landscape a number as well.

We have always been impressed with Sean's professionalism, enthusiasm and expertise when it comes to gardening and landscaping and the results speak for themselves. - More recently on a personal bases we employed Sean's services to design and create a courtyard setting at our own home to which we are thrilled with.

We would highly recommend Sean and his team to anyone looking for a professional landscaper.

Thank you for a superb landscaping project, completed on time and on budget. I am delighted with the finished result.

What really impressed was your professional approach, from arriving on time, to providing sketches and a written proposal and introducing other contractors for the tree felling and hard landscaping.

I appreciated your coordinating the hard landscape (builders for deck and garden retaining edges etc) and working in with them so that I never once had to telephone and hurry anyone up. This is a rarity in my experience with trade's people.

Please feel free to use this letter as a reference or for prospective customers to call as I would absolutely recommend your services.

I moved into a new property in Orewa in December 2005 and was soon faced with the daunting task of breaking in a new section. Due to the work involved this task required the services of a professional landscaper and plans were subsequently drawn up early in 2006. Unfortunately by April 2006 I had been badly let down by the contractor who’s quote I had accepted and I was now back to square one.

At this point I contacted Leightons Landscaping Ltd by email and Sean Leighton responded promptly and met on-site within days to discuss my requirements.

Changes and improvements were made to my original Concept Plan before Sean’s construction team of Graeme and Brian Sangster commenced the construction phase early in July after numerous delays caused by a very wet winter.

After further weather delays the project was completed to my satisfaction in September 2006 and later follow-up visits by Sean Leighton were testimony to his Customer Service ethic.

I would be pleased to recommend Leighton's Landscape Services Ltd to any prospective customer and any further particulars would gladly be supplied upon request.

We had a reasonable sized back yard that we had just partially levelled off with a retaining wall & had a sloping section below that. We weren’t sure what to do next to make it useable. We contacted Leighton’s Landscapes through their website for ideas & to get a quote. Sean was very prompt with his reply, arranged a time to come out & see the site, suggested various ideas & then sent us through a quote within days of his visit.

We were impressed with Sean’s horticultural knowledge & he was able to advise exactly what plants would grow in the clay based soil we had. He also took into account the fact that we had young children and selected plants whose berries were edible should they find their way into young mouths.

Sean went above and beyond what we expected to help us find a reputable concrete contractor in our area to do the concreting of our parking area. This was despite him not receiving any commission from the concrete layer, who quoted us & billed us directly.

We found Sean and his team to be very friendly and professional. It was refreshing to find someone who did exactly what they said they would at the time they had stated. We are really pleased with the finished result & would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Leighton’s Landscapes Services.