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Turf Laying guide
First, the vocabulary, because it trips up everyone reading American advice. Sod is the American word. In Australia the product is called turf, and the rolls or slabs of mature, farm-grown grass delivered on a pallet…
12 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Artificial Turf guide
Artificial turf is a plastic carpet laid on a compacted base: a shockpad or drainage layer, a permeable backing, tufted fibres and, on some systems, a loose infill of sand or rubber to hold the blades upright.
6 min read22 September 2026 - Guide
Garden Design guide
Garden design is the planting half of an outdoor project: the beds, the screening, the shade, the understorey, the things that change with the seasons.
6 min read22 September 2026 - Guide
Garden Maintenance guide
Garden maintenance is the ongoing care of the planted parts of a property: pruning, weeding, mulching, feeding, cutting back, clearing leaf litter and keeping beds from turning into scrub.
7 min read22 September 2026 - Guide
Tree Service guide
Tree service is the general-purpose arboricultural trade: crews who climb, cut, chip, grind and clear. Most of the visible work happens above head height, but the part of the job that damages property, injures people…
7 min read22 September 2026 - Guide
Tree Removal guide
Taking a tree down in Australia is a regulated act, not a gardening decision. Approval is normally required before a tree is removed, and which authority gives it depends on where the land is: in New South Wales,…
10 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Tree Trimming guide
Tree trimming covers everything from lifting a canopy off a roofline to reducing a crown before the storm season, and in Australia it carries two constraints that surprise people.
11 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Arborists guide
An arborist's real product is an opinion. The climbing, the rigging and the chipping are how the opinion gets carried out, but the thing you are actually buying when you engage an arborist is a judgement about a living…
7 min read22 September 2026 - Guide
Shrub & Hedge Trimming guide
Shrub and hedge trimming looks like the most routine job in the garden, and legally it is the least routine. A hedge is the one piece of ordinary planting in Australia that has its own statute, its own tribunal…
7 min read22 September 2026 - Guide
Irrigation guide
An irrigation system in Australia — reticulation, if you are in Western Australia — is designed around the watering rules that apply at your postcode, not around what the garden would ideally like.
11 min read14 September 2026 - Guide
Sprinkler Systems guide
A sprinkler system is a hydraulic circuit, not a set of appliances. Water arrives at the property at whatever pressure and flow the network provides, and everything after that — pipe sizes, the number of heads on a…
7 min read22 September 2026 - Guide
Yard Drainage guide
Most yard drainage problems are levels problems wearing a disguise. A homeowner sees standing water and assumes the answer is a pipe, so a contractor sells a pipe, and the water keeps arriving because nothing changed…
6 min read22 September 2026
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