Landscaping in Griffith

An older garden tends to have good bones and a few tired parts. The jobs an established inner south garden most often needs are:

• Cutting back and reshaping hedges that have lost their form.
• Clearing and replanting garden beds that have filled with weeds or outgrown shrubs.
• Renovating or replacing a patchy lawn.
• Relaying old paths and edging so the beds have a clean line again.

The full range, from design through to turf and irrigation, sits on our landscaping services page. This page focuses on what an older Griffith block tends to need.

Part of Griffith is a heritage precinct. The ACT Government’s Canberra Tracks Griffith page explains that Griffith and parts of Forrest were named Blandfordia 5 by Walter Burley Griffin, and that the precinct is bordered in part by Flinders Way, Monaro Crescent and Arthur Circle. It describes the houses as separated, mainly single storey, with hedged spacious yards, and a typical street as curved, with a hedge, gutter and treed verge. The layout and public landscape are credited to the planning of Sir John Sulman and the planting vision of Thomas Charles Weston.

Inside the precinct, landscaping in Griffith usually means keeping the hedge line and the open front yard, and putting the bigger changes into the backyard. Heritage rules may cover work in these streets. Before you change the front garden or take out a hedge, find out which controls affect your property.

The first decision in an older garden is what stays. A healthy mature tree or a well grown hedge gives shade and privacy that would take years to replace, while cracked paving or a crowded bed is usually better removed. Our article on garden renovation ideas for established inner Canberra homes goes through those choices in more detail.

If you want a fresh layout drawn up before anything is dug, landscape design is the place to start. If the garden only needs regular care, pruning, weeding and mulching through our gardening services keep it in shape between larger jobs.

To book landscaping in Griffith, call or send a message with your street and a short description of the garden. Photos help, especially of the front hedge and any areas you want changed. We will arrange a time to walk through the garden with you, talk about what to keep, and then quote the work.