Croydon front gardens are part of the streetscape, not just your yard. On a Federation or California bungalow the garden is what finishes the house, and keeping it right is detail work rather than a quick tidy.
Croydon sits about nine kilometres west of the city, split between the Municipality of Burwood and the Inner West. Most of it is detached Federation and California bungalows, with Victorian houses from the 1880s around Edwin Street North and the 1909 Malvern Hill Estate laid out as a model suburb. Around 55 per cent of homes here are separate houses.
On a bungalow street the front garden reads as part of the house. Low hedges want a crisp line, the path edges want to stay sharp, and the beds want to look deliberate rather than merely tidy. It is finicky work, it takes longer per square metre than open lawn, and it is the first thing anyone notices from the footpath.
These gardens have been going for a century and the planting in them is usually at full size. Keeping a camellia, a magnolia or a mature boundary hedge in proportion to a bungalow frontage takes staged reduction over a few visits. Cut hard in one go and you are left looking at bare structure for a season or more.
Parts of Croydon sit in conservation areas and several buildings here are heritage listed, including the railway station and the whole of The Strand. None of that restricts ordinary garden upkeep, but it does mean the planting is worth keeping sympathetic to the house rather than replanted to whatever is in fashion. A period frontage done sensitively holds its value on these streets.
Most visits here are detail work on a modest footprint, front and back.
The low front hedges and boundary screens these streets are full of, cut to a clean line. On a bungalow frontage the hedge line is the thing that makes the garden look maintained or neglected.
How we trim hedgesBeds, tessellated paths, paving joints and front steps cleared back to a clean finish, roots included. On a small period frontage weeds show immediately.
More on weedingStaged reduction of century-old shrubs and small trees so they stay in proportion to the house, and lifting growth off roofs, gutters and the front verandah.
See our pruning and trimmingMulch at a depth that suppresses weeds and keeps beds looking finished. On a front garden the mulch is visible from the street, so the grade and the tidiness of the edge both matter.
More on mulchingSmall front and rear lawns over prepared and levelled soil. Under an established canopy we will tell you honestly whether turf will hold before laying it.
How we lay new turfClippings, prunings and garden rubbish taken away each visit. On a narrow block there is nowhere to stage a pile, so all of it leaves with us.
See our rubbish removalRemoving a tree that has outgrown a small period block or is lifting a path or wall. The relevant council controls removal and significant pruning of many established trees, and we check before quoting.
About our tree lopping workOn a small period garden the standard of finish sets the price, not the area.
Three steps, a fixed written price per visit, and no lock-in contract.
We look at the frontage, the planting and the standard you want held, then tell you what it needs and how often.
A fixed price per visit on a cycle that keeps the front looking right, which usually means more often than people expect.
Same crew each time. All clippings leave with us, and the path, steps and footpath are swept down before we go.
Terry and his team are fantastic to work with.
The team have been very professional with their work, communication and they were also fast paced.
They use very high quality materials and workmanship is flawless.
Croydon sits between Burwood and Ashfield, with Enfield, Strathfield and Haberfield close by.
For a garden rebuild rather than upkeep, see our landscaping work in Croydon or everything we do across the Burwood area, and browse every Sydney suburb we service.
More often than a back yard, because it is on display. A clipped hedge and sharp path edges look maintained for about three weeks and then start to go soft. Most of our Croydon frontages sit on a short regular cycle for that reason.
Yes, but in stages. A century-old shrub cut hard in one go is left as bare structure for a long time. Reducing it over two or three visits keeps the shape and the foliage while bringing the size back under control.
Not ordinary upkeep, no. It is worth keeping the planting sympathetic to the house rather than replanting to something modern, and tree removal still needs council approval, but trimming, weeding and mulching are unaffected.
Yes, plenty of our Croydon clients do exactly that. Doing front and back together is better value per visit, but if the frontage is what matters to you we will scope and price just that.
No. You get a fixed written price per visit and you can change the cycle, skip a visit or stop whenever you want.
Yes. We work across Croydon 2132 and the surrounding suburbs including Burwood, Burwood Heights, Ashfield, Enfield, Croydon Park and Strathfield.
Send us the basics and we will come out, look at the planting and the standard you want held, and give you a fixed written price per visit. The visit costs nothing.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 0451 267 287.
Whether the hedge line has gone soft or a century of planting needs bringing back into proportion, we will come out and price it properly.