Local Gowrie lawn care
Forty years of lawns at the northern end of the valley
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Gowrie, postcode 2904, a suburb settled in 1981 at the northern end of the Tuggeranong Valley and named after the Earl of Gowrie, Governor-General from 1936 to 1944. This is the Canberra suburb of Gowrie, not to be confused with same-named places elsewhere in Australia. Many of its streets carry the names of decorated Australian servicemen and women, and the suburb sits on the former site of the Athllon Homestead at about 610 metres above sea level. Most blocks here are 1980s family blocks with a lawn out front and a bigger one behind, on ground built over 414-million-year-old volcanic rock — rhyodacite in the west, rhyolite in the east — that can run lighter and rockier than the clay plains up north.
Around 3,140 people live here, and the lawns have had four decades to settle in. That usually means couch or kikuyu, often mixed, sometimes with a patch of fescue where a previous owner wanted green through winter. A Fox operator who works Gowrie, Richardson and Isabella Plains every week can tell which is which from the kerb and sets the cut height, the interval and the autumn feed to suit, instead of running the same mow on every block from the Jeffries Street shops to Bugden Avenue.
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