Earlwood gardens are often working gardens, with citrus, grapevines and vegetable beds alongside the lawn. Keeping those properly is different work to tidying an ornamental yard, and we scope the visit for it.
Earlwood sits about 10 kilometres south-west of the city along the south bank of the Cooks River, in the Canterbury ward of the City of Canterbury Bankstown. The ground rises from a steep escarpment where the river meets Wolli Creek and flattens out upriver, and much of the housing came from post-war subdivisions on generous blocks.
Citrus, stone fruit, olives and grapevines are common here, and they are pruned to a season rather than whenever someone is passing. Cut a grapevine or a citrus at the wrong time of year and you lose the crop. We time that work rather than treating it as general trimming.
Blocks near the escarpment sit high with a sharp fall and shallow soil over rock. Upriver the ground flattens and holds more water. The same job costs and behaves differently depending which part of Earlwood you are in.
These subdivisions left rear yards that newer suburbs simply do not have, usually with sixty or seventy years of planting in them. That is more garden to hold, more growth to stay ahead of, and more waste leaving the property on every visit than a compact block generates in a year.
Tell us whether you want the whole garden held or just the structural work done, and we will scope to it.
Fruit trees, citrus, olives and grapevines pruned in the right season for the plant, plus lifting established canopies off roofs and gutters. The timing is the part that decides whether you get a crop.
See our pruning and trimmingBoundary screens and front hedges cut to a clean line, including the longer runs these deeper post-war blocks tend to have.
How we trim hedgesBeds, vegetable beds, paths and paving joints cleared back, roots included. In a productive garden keeping the weed pressure off the beds matters more than it does in an ornamental one.
More on weedingMulch at a depth suited to the position. On the flatter ground upriver we keep it lighter, because heavy mulch over damp soil holds it wet rather than helping.
More on mulchingNew lawn over prepared and levelled soil. On the escarpment side the soil over rock is shallow, and we deal with that before laying rather than after it thins out.
How we lay new turfClippings, prunings, old turf and garden waste taken away at the end of each visit, so nothing is left bagged on the verge waiting on a council collection date.
See our rubbish removalTaking out a tree that has outgrown the block or is dropping over a roof. The City of Canterbury Bankstown controls removal and significant pruning of many established trees, and we check before quoting.
About our tree lopping workWhat is growing in the garden matters as much as how big it is.
Three steps, a fixed written price per visit, and no lock-in contract.
We look at what is growing, including the fruit trees and vines, and tell you what needs doing now and what should wait for its season.
A fixed price per visit, with the seasonal work scheduled when it should happen rather than whenever the next visit falls.
Same crew each time. All clippings and green waste leave with us and the paths and driveway are swept down.
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.
Earlwood sits on the Cooks River with Canterbury, Campsie, Marrickville, Bexley and Kingsgrove nearby.
For a garden rebuild rather than upkeep, see everything we do across Canterbury Bankstown, or browse every Sydney suburb we service.
Yes, and that is a lot of what we do in Earlwood. The key is season. Citrus, stone fruit, olives and vines each want pruning at a particular time, and cutting them whenever a visit happens to fall is how people lose a crop. We schedule that work for when it should happen.
That is normal high on the escarpment. It means raised beds and shallow-rooted planting do far better than digging deeper, and lawn needs the soil built up before it will hold. We check the depth when we quote rather than assuming.
Usually with a reset, then a cycle. We price the catch-up separately from the ongoing visits so you can see both numbers, and once it is back under control the regular visits are short.
Yes, every visit. Clippings, prunings and old turf go in the truck, so nothing sits on the verge waiting for a council pick-up.
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 Earlwood 2206 and the surrounding suburbs including Canterbury, Campsie, Clemton Park, Bardwell Park, Bexley North and Undercliffe.
Send us the basics and we will come out, look at what is growing and how deep the soil is, and give you a fixed written price per visit. The visit costs nothing.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 0451 267 287.
Whether it is fruit trees that have never been pruned right or a deep back yard that got away, we will come out and price it properly.