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 across Nicholls, from the big blocks against Harcourt Hill to the bird-named streets of the pondside promenade and the businesses of Gold Creek Village.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Nicholls, the Gungahlin suburb in postcode 2913 that was developed from 1994 on what had been the Gold Creek rural property until 1990. It is named after Sir Douglas Nicholls, footballer, pastor, activist and Governor of South Australia, and its streets carry the names of sportspeople, Sue Geh Circuit among them. The suburb wraps around Gungahlin Pond and The Lakes golf course: most of the residential streets lie on one side, a small cluster of bird-named streets known as the pondside promenade on the other, and there is no road joining the two. To the west the larger homes back onto Harcourt Hill; to the south Percival Hill sits in nature park, and Gold Creek Village with Cockington Green, Federation Square and the George Harcourt Inn fronts the Barton Highway.
That geography gives our operators three different jobs in one suburb. The blocks under Harcourt Hill are bigger and steeper than the Gungahlin average, on rhyolite ground that drains fast, and they carry the kind of gardens that need hedges shaped and lawns finished properly. Around the pond and along Kelleway Avenue, where Gold Creek Primary, Holy Spirit and Gold Creek High School share a stretch of road, the blocks are standard 1990s family size on shale-based clay with thirty-year-old couch and kikuyu. And down at Gold Creek Village there are hospitality and tourism premises whose grounds are on show every weekend. We mow all three, and we quote them differently.
Book your free Nicholls quoteA steep block off Harcourt Hill, a family yard near the Perce Douglas Memorial playing fields and a café frontage at Federation Square each get a plan of their own.
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly rounds with edges along kerbs, garden beds and driveways, and a blow-down to finish. Details on our lawn mowing and edging pages.
The bigger homes on the western side have long, banked lawns that a push mower struggles with. We bring the right gear, cut across the slope and keep the edges sharp where lawn meets paths and walls.
Cafés, attractions and shopfronts around Federation Square and Gold Creek Square need grounds that look kept every weekend. Scheduled commercial garden maintenance with one invoice.
Couch and kikuyu laid when the suburb was built has thatched up and thinned in places. Dethatching, coring and top dressing in spring or autumn bring it back.
Lawns near Gungahlin Pond sit on flatter, heavier ground that stays wet in winter and holds frost. We time mowing around it and can condition the clay with gypsum and organic matter so it drains.
A prestige Nicholls home going to market needs the lawn striped, the hedges square and the beds mulched before the photographer arrives. Our pre-sale gardening does exactly that.
Nicholls has some of the larger established gardens in Gungahlin, especially on the hillside blocks, and they take more than a quick tidy. Our operators do hedging and pruning, tree trimming, weeding, mulching and full garden clean-ups from $70 a visit, with all the green waste taken away.
Thirty years on from the first houses, the hedges and screening trees planted in the 1990s have reached full size. Formal hedges want a hard shape in late winter and a lighter trim in summer to hold their line; ornamental trees need lifting so light reaches the lawn and the paths beneath; and beds on the free-draining ground under Harcourt Hill dry out early, so a deep mulch in October before the north-westerlies matters. Down near the pond the opposite applies, with beds that sit wet through July and want their mulch held back until the ground has drained. One operator, one visit, the whole block done.
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The same starting rates apply on the Harcourt Hill side and on the pondside promenade; the operator confirms the figure on site. Our full pricing guide lists every service.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | A small, regularly kept lawn or unit courtyard with easy access. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | Family and hillside blocks: mowing, edging, whipper snipping along fences and beds, hard surfaces blown off. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Established hedges shaped, trees lifted, beds weeded and mulched, green waste removed. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | Lawns that got away over spring, cut back in several passes with catcher work and a full tidy. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | The largest hillside blocks and any commercial grounds at Gold Creek Village, quoted after a look. |
Important: These are Nicholls starting prices. The final figure depends on the size and slope of the lawn, the amount of hedging and tree work, access for equipment and how regularly you book.
We look before we price, because a block on Harcourt Hill and a block by the pond are not the same job.
Operators who work Nicholls alongside Palmerston, Crace and Ngunnawal, so they know the suburb street by street.
Our operators run rounds through Nicholls, Palmerston, Crace and Ngunnawal every week, so they already know which blocks drain fast and which hold frost.
Small lawns from $50, gardening from $70, bigger hillside and commercial jobs quoted on site; the price is agreed before we start.
Every Fox Mowing ACT operator is fully insured and police-checked, so homeowners, agents and business managers at Gold Creek Village can book with confidence.
Edges, trimming and a full blow-down on every visit; on the prestige blocks that is the difference between mown and finished.
Weekly, fortnightly, monthly or one-off, set around school runs on Kelleway Avenue, weekend trade and settlement dates.
Call 1800 FOX MOW or use the form; most Nicholls mowing jobs can be priced from the street the same day.
Nicholls gets the standard Canberra year, but the hill and the pond split it in two. Frosts run from May to September and settle hardest on the flat ground around Gungahlin Pond, where couch and kikuyu lawns stay straw-coloured a little longer; up on the Harcourt Hill side the cold drains away and the fescue lawns under the trees keep growing slowly all winter. The spring rain peak in September and October brings everything back at once, and the hillside blocks are the first to dry out again when the hot north-westerlies arrive in November. Summer means deep watering two or three mornings a week, within the ACT rule of no sprinklers between 9 am and 6 pm during daylight saving, and a higher cut on the exposed slopes. We feed the warm-season lawns from mid-October and again in February, and use autumn for re-turfing or overseeding the tired patches before the first hard frost in late April.
We mow right across Gungahlin — Palmerston, Ngunnawal, Crace, Casey, Kinlyside, Amaroo, Bonner, Forde, Franklin and Harrison among them, and over into Belconnen — and across the wider Gungahlin 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.
Mowing a small, maintained lawn in Nicholls starts from $50. Standard family blocks with edges and a blow-down run $70 to $150+, the larger hillside blocks under Harcourt Hill usually sit at the top of that range or are quoted on site, gardening starts from $70 a visit, and overgrown lawns are priced as recovery work from $100 to $250+. The operator confirms the figure at the property before starting.
Some of them are. The homes against Harcourt Hill on the western side of Nicholls sit on larger, sloping blocks with established gardens, while the streets around Gungahlin Pond and Kelleway Avenue are standard 1990s family size. Fox Mowing ACT quotes the big hillside blocks after a look because slope, hedging and access change the time involved.
Tall fescue or a well-kept couch, depending on sun. The free-draining ground under Harcourt Hill dries out fast in a Canberra summer, so a couch lawn in full sun handles the heat if it is watered deeply and mown a little higher from November, while the shaded, south-facing slopes in Nicholls do better with tall fescue, which also stays green through winter. Whatever is there, mowing across the slope rather than up and down protects the turf and the operator.
Yes. Gardening visits in Nicholls start from $70 and cover hedge shaping, pruning, lifting ornamental trees, weeding, mulching and green waste removal. The established gardens on the hillside blocks usually run on a set programme: hard shaping in late winter, mulch in October and a lighter tidy through summer.
Yes. Fox Mowing ACT runs scheduled commercial grounds maintenance for cafes, attractions and shopfronts around Gold Creek Village and Federation Square in Nicholls, covering lawns, hedges, beds and hard surfaces, timed outside your busiest trading hours and invoiced monthly. Strata and rental properties elsewhere in Nicholls are handled the same way.
Phone 1800 369 669 (that is 1800 FOX MOW) or fill in the form, and the local Fox Mowing ACT operator calls you back the same day. Standard Nicholls blocks can usually be priced from the street; for the larger hillside properties and commercial grounds we arrange a quick walk-through first.