Lawn Mowing North Shore Sydney

Our North Shore coverage runs from North Sydney, Kirribilli, Neutral Bay, Cremorne and Mosman on the lower shore, through Chatswood, Artarmon, Lane Cove, Willoughby, Northbridge and Roseville, up to Lindfield, Killara, Gordon, Pymble, Turramurra, Wahroonga and Hornsby on the upper. One service area, covered on the same runs.

The North Shore has the most heavily treed residential blocks in Sydney, and that shapes everything about the lawns. Decades-old figs, camphor laurels, liquidambars and remnant blue gums throw deep shade for large parts of the day, and turf that would thrive in an open western Sydney back yard simply will not hold under it. Buffalo dominates for that reason, and even buffalo thins out under the heaviest canopies.

What this means practically is that cutting height on a North Shore lawn should be higher than most people set it. A shaded lawn needs more leaf area to photosynthesise with less light, so taking it short is exactly the wrong response to a lawn that already looks thin. It is the single most common correction we make on a new North Shore customer.

Terrain is the second factor. Blocks running down towards the harbour or into the Lane Cove and Middle Harbour valleys are steep, and a great many have stepped or terraced rear yards, sandstone retaining walls and embankments. These sections are trimmed on foot rather than mowed, which is slower and is the main reason a North Shore lawn takes longer than the same area on flat ground.

Established gardens change the mowing job too. Extensive garden beds, mature shrub borders, sandstone edging and specimen trees mean far more edging and hand-trimming per square metre of lawn than a plain rectangular block. The finish depends more on the edging than on the mowing on properties like these.

Leaf litter is a genuine ongoing issue. Deciduous street trees through Killara, Gordon, Roseville and Wahroonga drop heavily through autumn, and a thick mat of leaves left on turf will smother it inside a fortnight. Where that is a problem we clear before mowing rather than mulching the leaves into the lawn, and we can take the material away where the volume is beyond a green bin.