Garden maintenance in Mitcham

Mitcham is a steady run for JJ. Most of the gardens here are mid-sized suburban blocks with a front lawn, side path, backyard lawn and a hedge or two against the boundary. Easy to mow, easy to edge, easy to trim. The rhythm suits a fortnightly visit through summer and monthly through winter.

A particular feature of Mitcham is the volume of nature strips along the train corridor and the main streets. Council mows the strip occasionally but rarely keeps it sharp. JJ adds the nature strip to the regular mow as a free extra for ongoing clients — kerb appeal makes a noticeable difference and it costs almost no extra time on the day.

The other regular request in Mitcham is hedging. There are a lot of photinia, lilly pilly and conifer hedges in the area, planted thirty years ago and now properly mature. They benefit from two scheduled trims a year and an occasional renovation prune to bring back any patches that have gone bare. JJ does the lot in one visit and takes the green waste away.