Lawn and garden services in Spearwood

Regular lawn mowing with the verge included, most often fortnightly year-round, is the backbone. Larger lawns benefit more from a consistent cycle than small ones do, because a big lawn left to get long is a substantially harder cut rather than a slightly harder one.

Tree services are proportionally bigger business here than anywhere else in our patch. Reducing and lifting mature canopies off roofs and gutters, deadwooding old plantings, taking out trees that have simply outgrown the block, and storm damage after a bad night. Stump grinding follows most removals, and doing both on one visit saves bringing the grinder back.

Lawn renovation is the other Spearwood specialty. Decades-old kikuyu and couch on sandy soil is the textbook case for vertimowing — thick thatch, water running sideways through a spongy mat and never reaching the sand underneath. Pairing it with coring in spring is the job that transforms a lawn people had written off.

Big garden clean-ups are common too, especially on properties changing hands or between tenants, where forty years of garden has filled in around a house. And because the lawns are large and the sand is hungry, weed control matters — bindii and winter grass find every thin patch.

Because the soil drains so freely, the instinct is to water more. On a lawn with a thatch layer, watering more mostly waters the thatch — and on bare sand it drains past the root zone before the grass can use it. Both feel like a watering problem and neither is fixed by the tap.

The sequence that actually works on this soil is: strip the thatch, relieve the compaction, then improve what the soil can hold. Do the first two in spring and the same amount of water goes considerably further. Perth also has seasonal sprinkler restrictions and a winter sprinkler ban set by the state, so check the current rules before you change your watering — they are not ours to interpret.