A lot of Kingsgrove sits near a motorway or an industrial street, and the gardens there carry a layer of road grit that most suburbs do not. Screening planting and keeping foliage clean are the jobs that matter here.
Kingsgrove sits about 13 kilometres south-west of the city and is split across three council areas: Georges River, Bayside and the City of Canterbury Bankstown. The M5 has ramps here and the western end of the M8 exits onto it in the suburb, with commercial and industrial land north of the railway and along Stoney Creek Road and Canterbury Road.
On a block near the corridor a boundary hedge is doing real work on noise, headlights and dust, not just privacy. That means it has to stay dense right down to the ground, which is the opposite of how most hedges get cut.
Traffic lays down a fine film on foliage, paving and mulch that makes a garden look tired even when it is perfectly well kept. Washing down the hard surfaces and keeping beds freshly topped does far more for the look of a block here than adding plants ever will, and it is the part most people do not think to ask for.
Kingsgrove is split between Georges River, Bayside and Canterbury Bankstown. Which one your address falls in changes what you need approval for, so we confirm it before quoting any tree work rather than assuming.
Most visits here lead with the screening and the clean-down, then the usual bed and lawn work.
Screening hedges cut to a clean line while keeping the density low down, where it does the work. A hedge thinned out at the base stops screening anything, which is the most common mistake we see on these blocks.
How we trim hedgesBeds, paths, paving joints and fence lines cleared back to a clean finish, roots included. Along a busy road the verge and front strip are what people see first.
More on weedingFresh mulch at a depth that suppresses weeds and holds moisture. On a dusty block topping it up also resets the look of the whole garden, which is why we do it more often here.
More on mulchingLifting canopies off roofs and gutters, and keeping growth clear of sight lines where a driveway meets a busy road. On the corridor blocks we also keep screening trees dense rather than open.
See our pruning and trimmingNew lawn over prepared and levelled soil, with a variety that copes with full exposure and road-side conditions rather than one that needs a sheltered position.
How we lay new turfClippings, prunings, old turf and general garden waste taken away at the end of every visit, with the driveway and the footpath washed and swept down before we leave the site.
See our rubbish removalRemoving a tree that has outgrown its spot or threatens a structure. Which of the three councils you are in determines the rules, and we confirm that before quoting.
About our tree lopping workHow exposed you are to the road, and which council your address sits in.
Three steps, a fixed written price per visit, and no lock-in contract.
We look at how exposed you are to the road, what the screening is doing and where the grit is settling, then tell you what the garden needs.
A fixed price per visit, usually weighted toward the screening and the clean-down on the corridor blocks.
Same crew each time. All clippings leave with us and the hard surfaces 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.
Kingsgrove sits in southern Sydney with Bexley, Earlwood, Hurstville, Beverly Hills and Belmore nearby.
For a garden rebuild rather than upkeep, see our landscaping work in Kingsgrove or everything we do across the Georges River area, and browse every Sydney suburb we service.
Usually, with patience. A hedge thinned at the base has normally been topped repeatedly without the sides being worked, so the growth has all gone up. Cutting it back to encourage lower growth takes a couple of seasons but it is what gets the screening back.
It helps more than people expect, but only if it is dense low down where sound and headlights travel. A thin row of standard hedge plants does very little. On corridor blocks we specify for that boundary rather than planting the same thing all the way round.
That is the traffic, and the answer is maintenance rather than planting. Washing down the paving and driveway and topping up mulch regularly resets the look of a garden here far more effectively than adding plants.
It depends on your address, because Kingsgrove is split between Georges River, Bayside and Canterbury Bankstown. We confirm which applies before quoting any tree work so nothing stops part way through.
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 Kingsgrove 2208 and the surrounding suburbs including Bexley, Bexley North, Beverly Hills, Earlwood, Belmore and Hurstville.
Send us the basics and we will come out, look at the screening and how exposed you are to the road, and give you a fixed written price per visit. The visit costs nothing.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 0451 267 287.
Whether the screening has gone thin or the whole garden looks tired under road grit, we will come out and price it properly.