Saddle Hill Community Board deputy chairwoman Pam Jemmett said she was pleased the Fairfield beautification project was complete and made the area a pleasure to drive past.
''I'm really pleased it has finally got to stage where it is all finalised and looks really good, it looks tidy and nice.
"It was pretty junky, scrappy and untidy before, so to get the whole thing done is wonderful,'' Mrs Jemmett said.
The project began with plants, such as pittosporum and native grasses, near the gate of Fairfield School but then the project stalled due to a lack of funding.
The project restarted in September last year, when the Dunedin City Council set aside $10,000 from the revenue made when trees were felled at Walton Park.
The second part of the project included buying native plants - including kowhai trees, native grass Carex trifida and the dense ground cover Coprosma acerosa ''Hawera'' - for four planting boxes on Main Rd.
The boxes - ranging between 12sq m and 74sq m - between the footpath and Main Rd, near Old Brighton Rd, included native plants and polished river stones, Ms Jemmett said.
