Local Florey lawn care
Smaller 1980s blocks on what used to be sheep paddock
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Florey, a suburb that was gazetted on 5 August 1975 but mostly built in the mid-1980s, with 571 sites started in 1984 and the bulk of the housing finished by the end of 1987. Before that it was roughly 250 hectares of undulating open paddock used for sheep agistment, with hardly a tree on it apart from a pine plantation in the north-east corner and a line of eucalypts in the south-east. Everything green in Florey today has been planted since, and it shows in gardens that are established but not old, and in trees that are finally big enough to matter.
Florey was planned as predominantly medium-density housing, so the blocks are tighter than the 1960s suburbs next door, with duplexes, government housing throughout and two small developments built for older residents. The whole suburb slopes north towards Ginninderra Creek, which is why the 2018 Healthy Waterways work along Tattersall Crescent turned a concrete drain back into something like a creek. Named for Howard Florey, who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for penicillin, with streets named after Australian scientists, postcode 2615 has its own shops on the corner of Kesteven Street and Ratcliffe Crescent, three schools and a Hindu temple, and our operators pass most of them on a normal day.
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