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 operators mow and garden across Stirling, the 1.3 square kilometre suburb in the middle of Weston Creek with six neighbours around it and fifty-year-old family lawns down every street off Fremantle Drive.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Stirling, one of the smallest suburbs in Weston Creek at 1.3 square kilometres and one of the most surrounded, with Holder, Weston, Waramanga, Fisher, Chapman and Rivett all sharing a boundary. It was gazetted in 1970 and named after Sir James Stirling, the first Governor of Western Australia, which is why the streets carry the names of Western Australian pioneers and the main road is Fremantle Drive. The Weston Campus of Canberra College stood on that road until the early 2000s; the site is now the Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Stirling is not a suburb of grand gardens or difficult ground. It is fifty years of family life on ordinary blocks: lawns that have carried swings, cricket, dogs and cars parked on the nature strip, on red-purple rhyodacite with grey tuff to the south and softer alluvium in the south-west quarter. The wear shows up as bare tracks by the side gate, a hard-packed circle where the trampoline was and couch that has thinned in the shade of a tree planted in 1972. Our operators in Stirling 2611 mow it, patch it and keep it presentable without pretending it needs a show-lawn budget.
Book your free Stirling quoteFrom a back yard off Fremantle Drive to a corner block on the Waramanga side, we keep the lawn cut, the wear patched and the edges tidy at a price that suits a family block.
Fortnightly through spring and summer, monthly in the cooler months, with edges on paths, kerbs and beds and the drive blown down every visit. Our lawn mowing and edging pages list what is included.
Foot traffic, dogs and trampolines wear couch to bare dirt. We loosen the compacted ground, top dress and reseed or returf the worn areas in October or March, and mow around them until they knit.
A lot of Stirling lawns are the originals: thatched up, compacted and patchy. Coring, a sandy top dressing and a feed once the soil warms in mid-October thicken them up in one season without the cost of relaying.
Trees that went in during the early 1970s now shade half the back yard. We mow those areas higher, suggest fescue where couch has given up and can arrange tree trimming to let light back in.
A compact, central suburb suits tenants and downsizers, and we keep Stirling rentals on a scheduled round for owners and agents, with end-of-lease and pre-sale tidy-ups done in one visit.
Bindii in the play area is the one every family notices. A pre-emergent in late May, a general pre-emergent in September and treatment of what breaks through keep bare feet safe. Our bindii page has the timing.
Stirling gardens are practical: a hedge along the front, a few mature shrubs, a bed or two that get attention when there is time. Our operators keep them that way with hedging and pruning, weeding, mulching, clean-ups and green waste removal from $70 a visit, usually in the same booking as the mow so there is one person to deal with and one bill.
The usual Stirling job is catching up rather than starting over. A front hedge that has gone woody gets taken back over two seasons so it stays dense, beds that have been let go are cleared and mulched in spring so the weeds do not come straight back, and the dead wood under fifty-year-old shrubs is cleared out before summer. Regular monthly gardening keeps it from ever getting to the point where a weekend is not enough.
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Guide prices that are the same on every street in Stirling, with the final figure confirmed by the operator once they have seen the yard. Everything else is on the full pricing guide.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | Small, regularly cut lawns with clear access and no long growth. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | Full mow, edges and trimming around play equipment, fences and beds, with paths and drive blown clean. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Hedge cut, pruning, weeding, bed tidy and green waste removed, sized to the garden. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | Long or seeded grass after a wet spring or an empty house, with repeat passes and full clean-up. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | Larger open blocks elsewhere in the district needing ride-on mowing or slashing. |
Important: These are Stirling guide prices. The exact quote depends on lawn size, how worn or long it is, what is in the way and how often you book.
The price is set from a look at your lawn, because a tidy front yard and a back yard that has hosted a decade of cricket are not the same job.
Operators who cover Stirling and all six of its neighbouring suburbs, and treat a family lawn as a family lawn.
Our Stirling operators also mow Holder, Weston, Waramanga, Fisher, Chapman and Rivett, so they are never far away and know the ground under every one of them.
Small maintained lawns from $50 and gardening from $70, with repairs and overgrown jobs priced on the block, not padded.
Every operator is fully insured and police-checked, which matters when there are kids and dogs in the yard and a gate left open.
Edges cut, around the play gear trimmed, drive and paths blown, clippings gone.
Weekly, fortnightly, monthly or one-off, booked around school hours, nap times and weekends away.
Ring 1800 FOX MOW or use the form and a Stirling operator calls back that day, often with a mowing price from the street.
A Stirling lawn gets used all year and grows for about seven months of it. Frost from May to September sends the couch and kikuyu brown and dormant, and the worn patches show most in winter because nothing is growing to hide them; fescue in the shade keeps ticking over and wants a cut now and then. Spring rain in September and October brings everything back, and once the soil passes 14 degrees in mid-October we core the compacted areas, feed the lawn and repair the bare tracks while the grass will actually knit. Summer is the busy season for kids and grass alike: we mow a little higher, water deeply two or three mornings a week before 9 am under the daylight-saving rules, and mow around the pool and the trampoline. Autumn is the second growth flush and the last chance to overseed thin areas or lay new turf on a patch that never recovered, before the first hard frost in late April.
We mow right across Weston Creek — Stirling, Holder, Weston, Waramanga, Fisher, Chapman, Rivett, Duffy, Stromlo, Coombs, Wright and Denman Prospect — and across the wider Weston Creek 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.
Regular mowing of a small, kept-up lawn in Stirling starts from $50, and a typical family block with edges, trimming and a blow-down is $70 to $150+. Gardening visits start from $70, patch repairs are priced as a separate job, and a lawn that has gone long is quoted as recovery work from $100 to $250+. The Stirling operator confirms the price at the block before starting.
Loosen the ground first, then reseed or returf, then keep traffic off it. Most bare patches on Stirling lawns are compaction from feet, dogs and play equipment on the rhyodacite clay rather than disease, so we core or fork the area, top dress with a sandy mix, seed or lay a strip of matching turf in October or March, and water it in. Left alone, a compacted patch will not recover no matter how much water it gets.
Usually, yes. A fifty-year-old Stirling couch lawn that is thatchy and patchy is normally still alive underneath, and coring, top dressing and a feed once the soil warms in mid-October will thicken it up in one season for far less than relaying. If more than half of it is bare or weed, new turf laid in late spring is the better spend, and we will tell you which it is.
Yes. Our Stirling operators handle hedging, pruning, weeding, mulching, bed clean-ups and green waste removal from $70, and most families have it done in the same visit as the mowing. A front hedge that has gone woody is brought back over two seasons rather than one hard cut so it stays dense.
We can. Scheduled mowing and garden upkeep for Stirling rentals, plus end-of-lease and pre-sale tidy-ups, are everyday work for our operators, who are all insured and police-checked. If the yard is reachable, nobody needs to be home for the visit.
Ring 1800 369 669, or use the form on this page, and a Fox Mowing ACT operator from Stirling will be in touch the same day. For mowing alone we can often give a firm Stirling price from the kerb; for patch repairs or gardening we take a quick look at the yard first.