Garden Maintenance & Clean Ups — Norwood, Kensington Park & St Peters

Garden maintenance by someone who knows what the plants need

There is a difference between a garden that has been tidied and a garden that has been maintained. Anyone can blow the leaves off a path. Knowing that your roses want a hard winter prune, your Lilly Pilly hedge should be shaped after the new flush, and that the yellowing on the citrus is a magnesium problem rather than a watering one is what a qualified horticulturist brings to garden maintenance in Adelaide.

I have been maintaining gardens in Norwood and the eastern suburbs since 2017. Most of my regular clients are busy households, retirees who want to keep the garden they love, and landlords who need a rental presented well between tenants.

Gardening services Adelaide homes and small businesses rely on

• Pruning of shrubs, roses, fruit trees and ornamentals at the right time of year
• Weeding, bed edging and mulching
• Lawn mowing, edging and seasonal lawn care for regular clients
• Plant health, soil health and pest treatment
• Planting replacements and seasonal colour
• Gutter cleaning, pressure washing and the odd jobs that go with a tidy property

Regular maintenance can be fortnightly, monthly or seasonal. Most eastern-suburbs gardens need a heavier visit in late winter and late autumn, with lighter visits between.

Garden clean up Adelaide: residential and commercial

A garden clean up is for the jobs that have got away: an overgrown rental between tenants, a deceased estate being prepared for sale, a backyard that has not been touched since last spring, or a commercial site that needs to look presentable again. I clear, prune, weed, mulch and remove the green waste, and leave you with a garden you can actually maintain.

For commercial clean ups, body corporates and small business premises in Norwood, Kent Town, Stepney and St Peters, I can quote a one-off reset and then a maintenance schedule so it stays that way.

What a regular maintenance visit covers

A typical visit starts with a walk through to see what has changed since last time: new weeds, a shrub that has outgrown its spot, a lawn patch that is struggling, a drip line that has stopped. Then the work is prioritised by season. In spring that is pruning spring-flowering shrubs after they finish, feeding, mulching before the heat and getting the irrigation running. In summer it is keeping water up to the plants that need it, deadheading and light pruning only. In autumn it is the big tidy: leaf drop, cutting back perennials, planting, and preparing beds. In winter it is the hard pruning of roses, fruit trees and deciduous shrubs, and bare-rooted planting. You get a short note after each visit on what was done and what to watch.

Rental properties and strata sites get a simpler schedule: a presentable, safe, tidy garden on a fixed day each month, with photos sent to the property manager if required.

Suburbs covered for garden maintenance

I am based in Norwood, so Kensington Park, St Peters, Stepney, Kent Town, Rose Park, Walkerville and Payneham are all a few minutes away. Regular maintenance runs extend across the whole service area, from Burnside to Prospect and out to Tea Tree Gully.