Local Giralang lawn care
Mowing the star suburb on Belconnen’s eastern edge
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Giralang, a suburb whose name is the Wiradjuri word for star and whose streets are named for Aboriginal star words, astronomers and the constellations of the southern sky. It was gazetted on 15 January 1974 and built through the middle of that decade, which puts most of its lawns at about fifty years old: original couch and kikuyu on family-sized blocks, with fescue creeping in where the trees planted in 1975 now throw shade. At 599 metres and 2.4 square kilometres, it is bounded by Baldwin Drive, Gundaroo Drive and the Barton Highway, with Kaleen, Lawson and McKellar on the Belconnen side and Nicholls and Crace just over the highway.
The ground under Giralang is more varied than most Belconnen suburbs. Ginninderra Creek runs along a fault line marked at the surface by an iron-oxide reef, and the suburb is built over bands of shale, sandstone and mudstone rather than one uniform clay, so a lawn near the creek and a lawn on the rise by the Giralang District Playing Fields can drain, freeze and dry out quite differently. Giralang Primary School, which the community kept open after the 2006 closure threat, and the playing fields next to it are the centre of things, and postcode 2617 is a regular round for our operators rather than an occasional call-out.
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