Garden Maintenance Plans for Melbourne's South-East
Fortnightly, monthly and seasonal plans that keep a property looking after itself instead of getting away from you between visits. No lock-in contracts, and the cadence is matched to what your property and the season actually need rather than a one-size schedule.
Free, no-obligation estimates. No lock-in contracts. $20M public liability.
Three cadences, one crew
Every plan is billed per visit with no lock-in period. Pick the cadence that suits your property now: it's easy to change later.
Fortnightly Plan
Properties with an actively growing lawn through spring and summer, a formal hedge line, or a garden that gets untidy fast: the plan most residential and strata properties in the hills settle on for the growing season.
What a visit typically covers
- Mowing, with edges and whipper snipping around beds, fences and obstacles
- Blowing down of hard surfaces: driveways, paths and patios
- Light hedge touch-ups to hold a shape between full trims
- Spot weeding of paths, driveways and garden bed edges
- Green waste removed as needed
Monthly Plan
Slower-growing lawns, larger acreage blocks, or a property that just needs to be kept tidy rather than manicured: common through autumn and winter, or year-round on a bigger, less intensively planted block.
What a visit typically covers
- Mowing and slashing, with edges and whipper snipping
- Blowing down of hard surfaces
- Hedge and shrub touch-ups on a rotating basis
- Garden bed weeding
- Green waste removed as needed
Seasonal Plan
Properties that don't need routine mowing (a lawn service isn't wanted, or there's very little lawn) but still want the garden brought back into line each season: hedges reset, beds weeded, growth cleared before it gets away.
What a visit typically covers
- A full seasonal tidy: hedge trimming, garden bed weeding, and any overgrowth cut back
- Mowing on the visit if there's lawn to do
- Gutter and hard-surface blow-down where relevant to the season
- Green waste removal
No lock-in contracts on any plan. Exact inclusions are scoped to your property on the first visit and set out in a written estimate.
Melbourne's clay soils don't grow grass at a constant rate
Through the Dandenong Ranges and the Casey and Cardinia corridor, lawns sit mostly on heavy clay soils that hold moisture well once the weather warms. From roughly October to March, that combination of warmth and retained moisture drives the fastest growth of the year, and a lawn left three or four weeks between cuts in that window comes back long, uneven and harder to recover in one visit. A fortnightly cadence is what keeps pace with it.
Through the cooler months, growth slows right down. A monthly visit, or a seasonal tidy on a property with little lawn at all, is usually enough to keep hedges, beds and any remaining growth in check without paying for a cutting frequency the grass isn't using. This is also why a straight 12-month contract at one fixed frequency is often the wrong fit: the honest answer is that the right cadence changes with the season, and a plan that can flex between fortnightly and monthly without a lock-in period matches that reality rather than fighting it.
How does an ongoing plan work?
A plan is a set of regular visits to the same property. We agree the cadence with you (fortnightly, monthly or seasonal), then the same crew returns on that rhythm and works through the list for your property. If the season or your needs change, tell us and we adjust the schedule.
Are plans different in the Hills and the growth corridor?
The cadence can be the same, but the work on each visit is not. In the growth corridor (Berwick, Beaconsfield, Officer and Pakenham) plans are mostly about new-estate lawns and hedges that need to stay neat. In the Hills (Emerald, Avonsleigh, Cockatoo and Gembrook) there are steep blocks that need hand work because they are too steep for ride-ons, and big trees with constant leaf and branch drop. See the pages for Pakenham and Emerald for local detail.
Can you prepare my property for the fire season?
Fire-season preparation is something we offer regularly: fuel reduction, fire breaks and gutter clean-outs before summer. Mention it when you ask for your estimate. Our gutter cleaning and land clearing pages explain what that work involves.
How do I get started, and how long does it take?
Ask for a free itemised estimate using the form or call 0495 033 053. We assess the property and list the work item by item, so you can see what each visit covers. It is an estimate, and it can be adjusted on site once we have seen the work. For new jobs the lead time is typically one to two weeks.
What equipment do you bring to larger blocks?
For acreage we use a zero-turn mower, a slasher and brushcutter, and a tipper and trailer to take green waste away. Harrison and Jesse Ashford are the co-owners, and the business carries $20 million public liability insurance.
When a plan visit isn't the right tool
A maintenance plan keeps a property tidy between visits: it isn't the service for a hedge that hasn't been touched in years, a block that needs clearing, or tree work above safe reach from the ground. Those are scoped and estimated separately as hedge reduction, overgrowth clearing or arborist tree services. Most properties start with one of those to bring the garden back to a baseline, then move onto a plan to keep it there.