The Fox Mowing gentleman was so polite and did a brilliant job on my yard. I have already recommended him to my neighbours.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens the early-1970s streets of Flynn, a quiet suburb wrapped by Tillyard Drive, Kingsford Smith Drive and Ginninderra Drive, where the gardens have had fifty years to settle in.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Flynn, from the streets around the old primary school and George Simpson Park out to the Ginninderra Drive edge. The suburb name was gazetted on 9 September 1971 and honours John Flynn, the Presbyterian minister whose Aerial Medical Service of 1928 became the Royal Flying Doctor Service; the streets are named for people who worked in that service. It is a compact 2.1 square kilometres bounded by Tillyard Drive, Kingsford Smith Drive and Ginninderra Drive, with Charnwood, Fraser, Melba, Latham and Spence as neighbours.
Flynn Primary School opened in February 1974 as the first fully open-plan school in the ACT, designed by Enrico Taglietti, and although it closed in 2006 the preschool still runs and the grounds hold the national memorial to Flynn. Children now travel out to schools in Melba, Charnwood, Fraser, Latham and Evatt, which is a long way of saying that a lot of Flynn households are busy and the yard is the job that slips. The lawns in postcode 2615 are mostly original couch and kikuyu on blocks laid out fifty years ago, shaded in places by trees that were saplings in 1974, and that is the mix our operators are set up for.
Book your free Flynn quoteAround George Simpson Park and out along Kingsford Smith Drive, each visit is planned for mature trees, old warm-season turf and busy households.
Fortnightly or monthly rounds from spring to autumn, with kerbs, paths and beds edged every time. The lawn mowing and lawn edging pages describe what a visit includes.
Trees planted when the suburb was new now shade whole back yards. Where the couch has thinned we keep the fescue at 50 mm or above, and in April and May we clear leaf off the lawn before every cut so it goes into winter breathing.
Fifty-year-old kikuyu creeps into garden beds, over paths and under fences. A proper bladed edge and targeted garden weed control keep it where it belongs without spraying the whole yard.
Between commutes and school runs to other suburbs, a Flynn yard can go months without attention. We bring it back in stages, catcher on, and put it on a round so it does not happen again.
A potassium-rich feed in March or April hardens couch and kikuyu against the frosts that start in May, and a mid-October feed wakes it up again. We time both for the suburb, not the calendar.
When a long-held Flynn home changes hands, a pre-sale garden tidy and a recovered lawn make the difference in the photos. We do the same for rentals between tenants.
Flynn gardens were planted in the early 1970s and many have been tended by the same hands for decades, so our work is about keeping them in proportion: hedging and pruning that brings a wall of photinia or pittosporum back to a sensible height, thinning shrubs that have swallowed a path, and full garden clean-ups where a corner has been left to itself. All from $70 a visit, green waste removed.
Beds under mature trees dry out fast and grow little, so a deep layer of mulch in spring is the most useful thing we do for many Flynn gardens, along with a bladed edge to keep the kikuyu out. For older residents who want the garden maintained rather than changed, a regular light visit keeps it manageable; for families clearing a parent’s home before sale, we do the heavy first clean-up and the upkeep while it is on the market.
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Guide prices are the same from Tillyard Drive to Ginninderra Drive, with the local operator confirming the figure once they have seen the block. The pricing guide lists every service.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | Small, regularly mown lawns with easy access and little leaf to clear. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | The whole block mown, kerb and bed edges cut, fence lines trimmed, drive and paths blown. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Hedge reduction, pruning, bed weeding, mulch and green waste removal, sized to the garden. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | Grass left for months, cut down in stages with extra catcher work and a full clean-up. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | Any larger open ground near the reserve edge that suits a ride-on is priced on the spot. |
Important: Flynn guide prices only. Tree cover and leaf, kikuyu thatch, lawn size and whether the job is a regular round or a one-off catch-up all move the final quote.
A quick look at a Flynn block usually answers the price question straight away.
Local operators who cover the west Belconnen suburbs and know Flynn street by street.
The person quoting your lawn already works Flynn, Charnwood, Fraser, Latham and Melba every week, and knows which blocks are all shade and which still bake.
Small maintained lawns from $50, gardening from $70, with anything bigger or more overgrown priced to the actual work before we begin.
Every Fox Mowing ACT operator is fully insured and police-checked, so long-time residents and their families can book without a second thought.
Edges cut, leaf cleared, kikuyu trimmed off the path, hard surfaces blown clean and the green waste gone.
Regular, one-off or seasonal visits timed around commutes and school runs to Melba, Charnwood or Fraser; you do not need to be home.
Ring 1800 FOX MOW or use the form; a standard Flynn mow can usually be priced from the street the same day.
Flynn’s warm-season lawns go quiet with the first frosts in May and stay brown through the June to August hard frosts; a couch lawn that looks finished in July is only resting, and we leave frosted turf alone until it thaws. Under the trees the fescue keeps growing slowly and wants a cut every few weeks. The heavy September and October rain arrives on soil that has not yet reached 14 degrees, so the real surge comes in mid-October and then does not stop; that is when regular rounds earn their keep. Summer brings the hot north-westerlies over Tillyard Drive, and a lawn under canopy holds moisture better than an open one, though every yard wants deep, early watering within the ACT daylight-saving rules. Autumn is the second flush and the right time to feed, to overseed the fescue and to top dress the worn patches, or to re-turf in late spring where a lawn has gone past saving.
We mow right across Belconnen — Flynn, Charnwood, Fraser, Latham, Melba, Spence, Florey, Evatt, Dunlop, Cook and Bruce — and across the wider Belconnen district. Nearby? Ask and we will sort a local operator.
The Fox Mowing gentleman was so polite and did a brilliant job on my yard. I have already recommended him to my neighbours.
They were very accommodating to my tight deadline for the initial work that I have decided to make it a permanent mowing job every fortnight. Our yard has never looked better. Great people, great experience. Would highly recommend them.
What a great company. Its really refreshing to get a mowing job done where you as a person feel looked after. Will use them again on an ongoing basis. Please try them, you will be glad you did.
My initial mowing job was quite a difficult task for the person from Fox Mowing as the grass was tall. However, the skill and patience he showed was admirable. He took his time and made sure that the yard was brought to its original glory days. Cannot recommend them highly enough. They truly are a cut above the rest.
Fox gave me a quote, made an arrangement, set the time and date, and was here on time and did what we discussed. Would use Fox again for sure.
Chris was very accommodating to my tight deadline. Extremely happy with both the customer service and the work undertaken.
Small, well-kept Flynn lawns start from $50. A typical early-1970s block, front and back with edges and a blow-down, is usually $70 to $150+, gardening visits start from $70, and a yard that has been left for a season is quoted as a recovery job from $100 to $250+. The local operator confirms the figure on site before starting.
For the couch and kikuyu that most Flynn lawns are, mid-October and again in February, with a potassium-rich feed in March or April to harden the grass before the May frosts. Tall fescue on the shady sides of Flynn blocks is fed differently, in mid-September and again in March or April. Feeding a dormant warm-season lawn in winter is wasted money, so we do not do it.
Cut a proper edge and keep it cut. Kikuyu that has been growing in Flynn since the 1970s spreads by runners above and below ground, and it will cross any soft boundary. A bladed edge every visit, a deep mulch on the beds and a targeted treatment on runners that get through keep it in check without spraying the lawn itself.
Yes, that is common work for our Flynn operators. Tall hedges reduced in stages, shrubs thinned, beds weeded and mulched, kikuyu edged out and green waste removed, all from $70 a visit, keeping the character of a fifty-year-old garden rather than starting over.
Yes. We recover the lawn, tidy the beds and shape the hedges for Flynn homes going on the market, and do end-of-lease clean-ups for rentals between tenants. We only need access to the yard and can send photos when the job is finished.
The quickest way is 1800 369 669; the form on this page reaches the same local Fox Mowing ACT operator, who calls back the same day. For a standard Flynn mow they can usually give you a price from the street.