Local Weston Creek lawn care
One district, two generations of lawns
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across the Weston Creek district, 13 kilometres south-west of the city centre on the western side of the Woden Valley, and into the Molonglo Valley suburbs that have grown up beside it. Weston Creek was gazetted as a district in 1966 and built quickly: Waramanga and Fisher took their first residents in September 1969, Weston and Rivett followed the same year, Duffy and Holder in 1970, and Chapman and Stirling in 1972. Hindmarsh Drive was pushed through from Woden in late 1968 as the main road in, and Streeton Drive linked it to Cotter Road in 1970. At the 2021 census the district had 24,630 people across 15.8 square kilometres, all in postcode 2611.
Two things shape the lawns here. The first is the January 2003 bushfire, which destroyed nearly 500 homes in the district — 219 of them in Duffy — and hit parts of Chapman, Holder, Rivett and Weston hard, so rebuilt houses with twenty-year-old gardens now sit beside 1970s originals with mature trees. The second is the Molonglo Valley, where Coombs, Wright and Denman Prospect have been built on the old farm and pine-forest land past the North Weston Pond, with young builder-laid turf on light, rocky ground instead of the heavy clay of the valley floor.
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