Local Braddon lawn care
The densest suburb in Canberra still has grass to cut
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens throughout Braddon, and the work here looks nothing like a standard suburban round. Braddon is now the most densely populated suburb in Canberra: at the 2021 census 80.7 per cent of its dwellings were flats or apartments, 14.1 per cent were terraces or semi-detached homes and only 4.9 per cent were separate houses, and six in ten homes were rented. The population has climbed from 3,574 in 2006 to 6,383, most of it in the six-storey buildings that replaced the car yards along Lonsdale and Mort streets and the two- and three-storey flats in the streets north of Haig Park. So the typical Braddon job is a strata lawn, a planter strip in front of a cafe, or a nature strip along a street of apartments in the 2612 postcode.
The old suburb is still there if you know where to look. Braddon was settled in 1922 and named for Edward Braddon, one of the writers of the Constitution, and the Garden City precinct bounded by Donaldson, Elimatta, Batman and Currong streets is the only residential area Walter Burley Griffin designed that was ever completed. Those cottages, along with the single houses that survive where Braddon meets Ainslie and Dickson, sit under mature exotic trees: cedar, ash, oak and pine, with the pin oaks along Torrens Street the finest of the lot. Haig Park’s fourteen rows of shelterbelt trees add to the leaf and needle load. A lawn under that canopy needs an operator who understands shade, autumn drop and eighty-year-old couch, and ours do.
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