Wahroonga is known for its shady streets and its gardens, and keeping one of them looking that way is a real job. We handle the canopy work, the formal structure and the week-to-week upkeep that holds an established garden together.
Wahroonga sits about 18 kilometres north-west of the city, split between Ku-ring-gai and Hornsby Shire, and is known for tree-lined streets and well-kept gardens. Wahroonga Park carries mature introduced plantings and a rose garden, and The Glade holds a remnant patch of Blue Gum High Forest.
Plenty of Wahroonga gardens have real structure: clipped hedges, defined bed lines, shaped specimens. That only reads well if it is cut on a cycle. Left for a season it blurs, and bringing it back takes considerably longer than keeping it.
The tree cover that defines these streets puts most of the garden in shade for much of the day. Thinning it carefully is what lets anything underneath survive, and it has to be done without wrecking the shape of the tree.
With remnant Blue Gum High Forest nearby and mature specimens on private blocks, some of the trees here matter well beyond the garden they sit in. We check what we are dealing with before any saw comes out.
On an established garden the order matters. Canopy first, then structure, then the beds underneath.
Clipped hedges, formal shapes and screening runs cut to a true line. On a garden with real structure this is the work that holds the whole design together, and it suits a regular cycle rather than an annual cut.
How we trim hedgesLifting and thinning mature canopy so light reaches the garden below, done in a way that keeps the shape of the tree. On specimens this old we stage the work rather than taking it back in one go.
See our pruning and trimmingBeds, paths and paving joints cleared back to a clean finish, roots included. On a formal garden the bed edge does a lot of the visual work, so keeping it clean matters more than it would elsewhere.
How we handle weedingMulch at a depth suited to shaded beds, which need less than an open garden and sour if overdone. We keep it clear of trunks and surface roots rather than heaping it against them.
What our mulching involvesNew lawn over prepared ground with a shade-tolerant variety. Under a Wahroonga canopy a sun-loving turf will thin out within a year however well it is laid.
How we lay new turfRemoving a tree that is unsafe or has outgrown its position. Ku-ring-gai Council controls removal and significant pruning of many established trees, and there are few suburbs where that matters more. We check before quoting.
About our tree lopping workPrunings, leaf litter, hedge clippings and green waste taken away each visit. A single hedge cut on a garden this size fills a load on its own.
See our rubbish removalOn an established garden the quote is set by what is already there rather than the area.
Three steps, a fixed written price per visit, and no lock-in contract.
We measure the hedge runs, look at the canopy and the structure, and tell you what the garden needs to stay as it is.
A fixed price per visit on a cycle that keeps formal work crisp, which usually means more often and lighter rather than occasional and heavy.
Same crew every time, so nobody needs re-briefing on a garden with this much structure. All clippings and leaf litter leave with us.
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.
Wahroonga sits on the upper north shore with Turramurra, Warrawee, Normanhurst, Waitara and St Ives nearby, and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to the north.
For a garden build rather than upkeep, see our landscaping work in Wahroonga or everything we do across Ku-ring-gai, and browse every Sydney suburb we service.
Usually, yes, but not in one cut. Taking a blurred hedge back to a true line in a single session leaves bare patches that take a long time to fill. We stage it across a few visits and then hold it on a regular cycle, which is also cheaper over a year.
Very often, yes. Ku-ring-gai Council controls removal and significant pruning of many established trees, and Wahroonga has more of them than most suburbs. We check the tree and the address when we quote and tell you before anything is booked.
It can. Which council your property sits in determines which tree rules apply, so we confirm the address rather than assuming. It makes no difference to the gardening itself.
Careful canopy thinning to let more light down, then planting chosen for the light that remains. Done together that works. Done separately, people usually just replace the same failing plants each year.
Yes. We work across Wahroonga 2076 and the surrounding upper north shore suburbs including Turramurra, Warrawee, Normanhurst, Waitara, Thornleigh and St Ives.
Call 0451 267 287 or send the form and we will book the earliest on-site time that suits you. Photos of the garden help us give you a rough range first.
Send us the basics and we will come out, measure the hedges and assess the canopy, and give you a fixed written price. The visit costs nothing.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 0451 267 287.
Whether it is formal hedging that needs a steady hand or canopy work that nothing underneath can do without, we will come out and price it properly.