Local Palmerston lawn care
A compact 1990s suburb with lawns that have settled in
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens throughout Palmerston, the small Gungahlin suburb in postcode 2913 that was gazetted on 20 March 1991 and built out through the mid-1990s as the district’s second suburb after industrial Mitchell. It is named for George Thomas Palmer, whose 1826 Palmerville settlement was later renamed Ginninderra, and its streets take their names from Australian mountains and ranges, with Kosciuszko Avenue running through the middle. At 1.9 square kilometres it is one of the smallest suburbs in the district, tucked between Gungahlin Drive and Gundaroo Drive with Nicholls, Crace, Franklin and the town centre around it, and it is unusual for the plum and apple trees scattered along its public thoroughfares.
Because the whole suburb went up in a few years, its lawns are all roughly the same age, and that age is now about thirty. Most are couch or kikuyu on shale-based clay, thick where they have been fed and thin where thirty years of cars, kids and dogs have packed the ground down. The housing is a mix of single homes and duplexes, so a lot of lawns are small, shared along a fence line, or split between a front patch and a narrow side strip. Our operators know the difference between a duplex front yard on a bus route and a full block backing onto the neighbourhood oval next to Palmerston District Primary, and they price each one as what it is.
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