A creek runs the length of Toongabbie and it floods heavily. If your block is near it, that single fact shapes the garden more than anything you plant, and it is the first thing we ask about.
Toongabbie sits about 30 kilometres west of the city and 8.5 kilometres west of Parramatta, split across the City of Parramatta, Blacktown City and Cumberland Council. Girraween Creek runs the length of the suburb and joins Blacktown Creek, with a kilometre of it channelised for flood mitigation, and it floods heavily.
On the low blocks near the creek, water comes through rather than pooling. It leaves silt across beds and lawn, flattens planting and buries mulch. Cleaning up after that is its own job, and it is worth knowing which plants in a garden will come back and which will not.
Where a bed floods every few years there is no point filling it with anything that cannot take wet feet and a layer of silt. We will say plainly where a planting idea is going to be lost in the next event rather than take the money twice.
Higher up the suburb the gardens behave like any other western Sydney block, with the usual hot exposed summers and solid clay. Those are a straightforward cycle, and we price them as such rather than applying one suburb rate to both.
Tell us how close you are to the creek and we will scope the visit to suit.
Beds, paths and paving joints cleared back to a clean finish, roots included. After the creek comes up weeds establish fast in fresh silt, so the first pass afterwards matters.
More on weedingMulch at a depth that holds through a hot summer. On the flood-affected blocks we talk through whether a heavy mulch is worth laying at all, since it washes away in an event, and sometimes a coarser grade is the better call.
More on mulchingBoundary screens and front hedges cut to a clean line. On blocks where houses have been replaced by units nearby, a hedge is often doing real privacy work and we keep the density.
How we trim hedgesLifting canopies off roofs and gutters and thinning growth so light reaches the garden. On creek-side blocks we also clear debris caught in lower branches after the water drops.
See our pruning and trimmingNew lawn over prepared and levelled ground. On low blocks we are honest about the risk and will suggest waiting until after the wet months rather than laying turf that gets lifted.
How we lay new turfClippings, prunings, silt-damaged planting and flood debris taken away. A clean-up after the creek has been up usually fills more than one load and we size it on site.
See our rubbish removalTaking out a tree that has been undermined by water or outgrown its spot. The suburb sits across three council areas with different rules, so we confirm which applies to your address before quoting.
About our tree lopping workHow close you are to the creek is the first question and usually the most important one.
Three steps, a fixed written price per visit, and no lock-in contract.
Call or send photos, and mention how close you are to the creek and whether water has come through. That decides most of what we would recommend.
A fixed price per visit, with any flood clean-up priced separately rather than folded into a regular visit.
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.
Toongabbie sits west of Parramatta with Winston Hills, Seven Hills, Girraween, Pendle Hill and Greystanes nearby.
For a garden rebuild rather than upkeep, see everything we do across the Cumberland area, or browse every Sydney suburb we service.
Yes, and it is a job in its own right rather than something to fold into a normal visit. Silt gets through the beds and the lawn, planting is flattened and mulch is gone. We clear it, take the damaged material away and tell you honestly what will come back on its own.
Only with the right plants. Where a bed goes under every few years, anything that cannot handle wet feet and a layer of silt is money you will spend again. We would rather point that out than plant it twice for you.
No, and we price it accordingly. Up there it behaves like a normal western Sydney block, which means hot exposed summers and heavy soil, and a straightforward regular cycle.
Sometimes a coarser grade is the answer, and sometimes on the lowest beds it is not worth laying much at all. We will talk it through rather than selling you mulch that leaves with the next event.
Yes, every visit. Clippings and prunings go in the truck, so nothing sits on the verge waiting on a council collection.
Yes. We work across Toongabbie 2146 and the surrounding suburbs including Old Toongabbie, Seven Hills, Girraween, Pendle Hill, Winston Hills and Northmead.
Send us the basics and we will come out, look at where you sit relative to the creek and what condition the garden is in, then give you a fixed written price. The visit costs nothing.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 0451 267 287.
Whether the creek has been through it or you simply want it held on a sensible cycle, we will come out and price it properly.