In the family album there is a photo of Ian, 2 years old, holding a hoe in the garden at Kawhia with his dad. 

Ian has designed gardens for 40 years and taught in landscape architecture for 20: in design studio, landscape history and cultural landscapes. 

He has an interest in the way gardens continually become something new, and how gardening is a design practice. 

Japanese gardens are of particular interest. 

Ian is an accredited member and a Life Member of the Garden Design Society. 

He is a partner of HIKOI Garden Tours.