Local Barton lawn care
Mowing for a suburb that is nine-tenths apartments
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Barton, the suburb tucked between Capital Hill and the East Basin of Lake Burley Griffin at 565 metres above sea level. Settlement here began in 1922, the first houses of the heritage-listed Barton Housing Precinct went up in 1926 and 1927 for public servants arriving for the opening of Parliament House, and the suburb took Sir Edmund Barton’s name in 1928. Its streets are named after governors. What sets Barton 2600 apart today is the housing mix: of a population just under 2,000 at the 2021 census, more than nine in ten dwellings are flats, units or apartments, only around six per cent are separate houses, and nearly half of all homes are occupied by one person.
That shapes the work. Most of our Barton jobs are shared grounds — strata lawns, courtyard strips, nature strips in front of unit blocks — plus the 1920s cottages inside the precinct between Macquarie and Darling Streets and Telopea Park, and the grounds of the government offices, colleges and institutions that fill the rest of the suburb. Our operators work these blocks alongside Kingston and Forrest, so they know which lawns are old couch that browns off in June and which are fescue that keeps asking for a winter cut.
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