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 keeps the lawns and grounds of Phillip presentable, from apartment strata around the Woden Town Centre to the townhouse courtyards of Swinger Hill and the commercial strips along Botany and Townshend Streets.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Phillip, the suburb at the heart of the Woden Valley district that holds the Woden Town Centre, Westfield Woden, the bus interchange and Lovett Tower. Phillip was gazetted on 12 May 1966 and named after Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales; its streets take their names from the First, Second and Third Fleets. It is a suburb of flats more than houses. Of the 5,197 people counted in 2021, up from 1,689 five years earlier, 67 per cent lived in flats and nearly all the rest in townhouses or terraces, and more apartments are going up. Lawn care here is mostly strata lawn care: shared grounds, verge strips, small courtyards and the odd larger garden around an older townhouse block.
Across Hindmarsh and Athllon Drives sits Swinger Hill, the 1970s townhouse estate whose streets are named after architects and whose Barnet Close homes carry an ACT heritage listing. Its courtyards and common areas are a different job from the town centre towers, and different again from the commercial frontages along Botany, Townshend and Parramatta Streets or the open space of Eddison Park. Our postcode 2606 operators cover all of it, sized to each site rather than to a standard block.
Book your free Phillip quoteFrom a Swinger Hill courtyard to a business frontage on Townshend Street, we price the ground in front of us.
Set rounds for common lawns, verges and the few full-size yards Phillip still has, with edges kept sharp along paths and kerbs. Our lawn mowing and edging pages cover the detail.
Two thirds of Phillip’s homes are flats, so shared lawns, entry beds and verge strips are most of what we mow here. One operator, a fixed schedule and a price the body corporate can budget for.
Small townhouse lawns and shared greens in the 1970s estate need a compact mower, careful edging against paving and a tidy that respects the heritage streetscape.
Shops and offices along Botany, Townshend and Parramatta Streets need grass and beds that look open-for-business every morning. Our commercial garden maintenance visits before trading hours where that helps.
With so many rented and newly built units in Phillip, turnover is constant. A quick end-of-lease garden tidy gets the courtyard and common area past the inspection.
Strata sites have more paving, car parks and gutter runs than lawn. We add pressure cleaning and gutter cleaning to the grounds round so the manager deals with one contractor.
Most Phillip gardens are shared, small or both. Our operators do hedging and pruning, bed weeding, mulching, garden clean-ups and green waste removal from $70 a visit, on a schedule that suits a strata committee as much as a single owner.
Apartment entry beds and screening plants along car parks take a beating from reflected heat off paving and from the hot north-westerlies that sweep the town centre in summer, so a deep mulch in October and a shape-up of the hedges in spring and late summer keeps them looking kept. Swinger Hill’s older gardens have mature plantings that need thinning rather than replacing. For managers handling turnover in Phillip, we combine a garden maintenance round with mowing and hard-surface work so the whole site is done by one crew on one day.
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Guide prices are the same whether the lawn is a Swinger Hill courtyard or a strata common area beside the town centre; a local operator confirms the figure after seeing the site. Our pricing guide lists the rest.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | Townhouse courtyards, unit lawns and small strata strips in Phillip with easy access. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | Larger common lawns and the few full-size yards: mowing, edges, whipper snipping and paved areas blown clean. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Hedges, entry beds, weeding, mulch top-ups and green waste removal, scaled to the site. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | Neglected common areas or a vacant unit’s courtyard gone to seed: multiple passes and full clean-up. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | Open grounds around Phillip’s larger strata or sports sites that suit ride-on mowing are quoted on site. |
Important: These are Phillip starting guide prices. Your final quote depends on the size of the site, how many separate lawn areas it has, access through gates and car parks, and the schedule you want.
We look before we price, because a strata site with six small lawns is a different job from one open block.
Strata managers, agents and owners in Phillip get the same thing: a local operator who turns up when booked and leaves the site tidy.
Our Phillip operators also cover Lyons, Curtin, Hughes and Garran, so they are minutes from the town centre and used to strata work.
Small lawns and courtyards from $50, gardening from $70, and strata or commercial sites quoted as a fixed monthly figure the committee can approve.
Full insurance and current police checks on every operator, which body corporates and commercial tenants in Phillip need on file.
Edges cut, paths and car parks blown clean, no clippings left in the garden beds or the stairwell entrance.
Early visits for commercial frontages, mid-morning for residential strata, and one-offs before inspections or open homes.
Call 1800 FOX MOW or use the form. Send a site address and we can often quote a Phillip common area from a walk-past.
Phillip sits at 596 metres, lower than the suburbs around it, and its lawns are mostly small and hemmed in by buildings, which changes how the seasons land. Frost still arrives from May to September and turns the couch and kikuyu on the common lawns straw-coloured; the fescue some strata sites have chosen for year-round green keeps ticking over and needs a winter cut or two. September rain and October warmth bring the growth back, and that is when we feed the shared lawns and tighten the schedule. Summer heat bounces off paving and car parks, so small courtyard lawns dry out faster than an open block would; we mow them higher and remind managers that ACT rules stop sprinklers between 9 am and 6 pm in daylight saving. Worn entry lawns get repaired and top dressed in autumn before the cold returns.
We mow right across Woden Valley — Phillip, Lyons, Curtin, Hughes, Garran, Chifley, Mawson, O’Malley, Pearce and Torrens among them — and across the wider Woden Valley 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.
A small maintained lawn or townhouse courtyard in Phillip starts from $50 a visit. Larger common lawns and the suburb's few full-size yards run $70 to $150+ with edges and a blow-down, gardening starts from $70, and strata or commercial sites in Phillip are quoted as a fixed figure per visit or per month once the operator has walked the site.
Yes, strata grounds are the bulk of our work in Phillip. Two thirds of the suburb's homes are flats, so most Phillip lawns are shared common areas, verge strips and entry beds, and we service them on a fixed round with one operator, a set price and a short report to the manager if wanted.
Fortnightly from October to April and about monthly through the winter is right for most Phillip courtyards. Small lawns surrounded by paving heat up and dry out faster than open blocks, so in Phillip we also raise the cutting height in summer and keep the couch or buffalo a little longer rather than scalping it every fortnight.
Yes, hedging, pruning, weeding, mulching and bed clean-ups in Phillip start from $70 and are usually done with the mow. Entry beds and car-park screening in Phillip cope with a lot of reflected heat, so we mulch them in October and shape the hedges in spring and again in late summer.
Yes, end-of-lease and pre-sale tidy-ups for Phillip units and townhouses are quick jobs we do often. With so many rented apartments in Phillip, we can usually fit a courtyard tidy in within a few days of the call so the outdoor area passes the final inspection.
Call 1800 369 669 or fill in the form on this page and a Phillip operator will call you back the same day. For strata or commercial sites, send the address and a contact for access and we will walk the site and send a written quote.