Commercial Hedge Trimming Services Sydney

It depends on the species and on how formal the line has to be. A crisp formal frontage in murraya or lilly pilly wants three to six cuts a year; a screening hedge in viburnum or camellia holds well on two; slow species like English box need about two. Most Sydney commercial sites sit on a two-to-four cycle. The important part is that it is a cycle rather than a reaction, because the cost of catching up is much higher than the cost of keeping up.

It is quoted per site rather than published, because the drivers are the length of the run, the height and how it is safely reached, the species and how much comes off, the access windows, and the volume of green waste to remove. Ongoing cycles are priced per visit and are cheaper per cut than one-off recovery work. You get a written specification with the quote so the price is tied to a defined finish rather than to somebody's judgement on the day.

Usually, and the species decides how. Broadleaf hedges — lilly pilly, murraya, photinia, viburnum, box, camellia — generally reshoot from old wood, so they can be reduced hard and will refill given a season, sometimes two. Conifers such as cypress and thuja largely do not reshoot from bare brown wood, so on those we reduce as far as the green goes and no further. We will tell you which situation you are in before quoting a recovery.

Before the spring flush, so the plant puts its new growth straight into filling the shape you have just cut. Light maintenance trims can happen through the growing season. What we avoid is a hard reduction in the middle of summer heat, when the plant is already stressed and newly exposed inner branches can scorch, and hard work in spring without checking for nests first — native birds are protected.

Nine times out of ten it is shape. If the hedge is cut vertical or, worse, wider at the top than the bottom, the top shades the base for most of the day and the lower foliage gradually gives up. The fix is to bring the top in so the profile tapers slightly, then give it a couple of seasons to refill. The other causes worth ruling out are competition from tree roots, water not reaching the base under a wide canopy, and scale or borers in a run that has been stressed.

Regularly. Retail frontages, schools, aged care and busy car parks are often better done before opening or after close, and we schedule around that rather than asking the site to work around us. Where after-hours access needs keys, codes or a security escort, that gets sorted at the quote.

Yes, and before we attend rather than on request afterwards. Public liability certificate of currency, workers compensation, safe work method statements for the tasks involved, and Working with Children Checks where a school or childcare site requires them. If your site has its own induction process, we complete it before the first visit.

As a clearance job as much as a hedge job. Sight lines at driveways and crossings, footpath width so pedestrians are not pushed towards the road, and clearance from lighting, cameras, signage and fire equipment all get checked as part of the cycle. The public side of a roadside hedge is planned separately from the property side, because working next to traffic is a different set-up.

They leave with us for green waste recycling. On a long commercial run the volume is significant, which is exactly why some quotes quietly exclude it. Nothing gets blown into a garden bed to hide it, into the gutter, or onto a neighbouring property — on roadside work that last one is a stormwater problem as well as a bad look.

Comfortably past what a ladder should be used for, because we use scaffolding and platforms rather than over-extending. The limit in practice is what can be safely set up on the ground available — a tall hedge against a building with a metre of paving in front of it is a different problem from the same hedge with open lawn beside it. We work that out on site before quoting.

Both, often. Strata work is invoiced to the strata manager with the same crew each visit so the standard does not drift — see strata and commercial gardening. Schools need Working with Children Checks, nothing sharp left behind, and the bigger reductions done in holiday periods, which we plan around the school calendar.

Yes, and it is worth doing properly. A gap replanted with the same species at the same spacing takes a few seasons to blend, and it needs the soil in that spot investigated first — plants rarely die in a run for no reason. See garden planting for how we handle that side of it.

Yes, and most commercial clients bundle it. Mowing, garden beds, mulching, weeding, gutters and turf under one contract with one point of contact is cheaper and easier to manage than four contractors on four schedules. See commercial gardening.

All of them — the North Shore, Northern Beaches, Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, CBD, Western Sydney, the Hills District and Southern Sydney. For domestic hedges, see hedge trimming.