Your Local Gardener in Frankston & Frankston South

What a regular gardener in Frankston actually does

Mowing keeps the lawn under control. Everything else in a garden — the beds, the shrubs, the mulch, the weeds coming up through the gravel — needs a different kind of attention, and it is what most people are really asking for when they go looking for a gardener in Frankston.

On a maintenance visit we weed the beds properly, cut back and shape shrubs, prune what is due for pruning, top up mulch where it has thinned, clear the leaf litter out of the corners, and keep the borders between lawn and bed clean. Over a few visits a garden that had been slipping starts holding its shape between visits instead of needing rescuing.

Who books a gardener in Frankston

Three groups, mostly. People who work full time and have simply run out of weekends. Older residents around Frankston South and Karingal who have kept a beautiful garden for thirty years and now want the heavy part done by someone else. And owners who are not here — investment properties, holiday homes on the Peninsula, and people managing a family home from interstate.

That last group is why we send a note after each visit if you want one. If you are not there to see the garden, you should still know what was done.

How often it needs doing

Fortnightly through spring and summer, when everything is growing at once and weeds are the main enemy. Monthly through the cooler months is usually enough, shifting to a bigger seasonal tidy-up in early spring and again in autumn. We will tell you what the garden needs rather than selling you the most frequent option.

If the garden has already got away from you, that is a clean-up first, then maintenance. We quote the two separately so you can see what is the one-off catch-up and what the ongoing cost looks like.