Landscaping in Barton

The ACT Government’s Canberra Tracks guide to Barton says the streetscapes of the Barton Housing Precinct are distinctive for their varied setbacks, street trees, hedges and 1920s street signs and lamps. It adds that the area demonstrated the landscape planting of 1927.

In those streets, a garden job usually works with the existing layout. Common requests are shaping and renewing front hedges, replanting tired beds and laying paths that sit comfortably with the house. Heritage controls can affect changes here, so find out what your block is subject to before altering the front garden or fence line in a bigger way.

The same page notes that Telopea Park, which is in Barton, was planted with a wide range of native and exotic trees by Thomas Charles Weston in the 1920s. That mix is a useful guide. A Barton garden does not have to be all natives or all English cottage plants, and many look best with a blend.

If you want a plan before anything goes in the ground, our landscape design service can set out beds, lawn, paving and plant choices together. We also offer water-efficient planting for owners who would rather not water a garden every few days.

Landscaping in Barton often involves common property: entry gardens, courtyards and the strips of lawn between buildings. For those sites, the person booking the work is often a strata manager or an owners corporation committee, and every project has one dedicated project manager as the contact.

Once a shared garden looks right, regular garden maintenance such as pruning, weeding and mulching keeps it that way between larger projects. The full range of what we build and plant is on our main landscaping services page.

A few photos of the garden from the street and from inside the yard help most. Add rough measurements of the beds or lawn, a note of anything you want kept, and whether the house sits in the heritage precinct. For common grounds, tell us when residents use the space most, so noisy work and fresh mulch can be timed around them.