Canterbury's grand old gardens need regular clipping and cutting. Ross takes the trimmings, leaves and branches away so they don't sit in the drive for weeks.
Not a franchisee or a truck driver from a booking system. The bloke who quotes it is the bloke who loads it.
No bags to fill, no skip to load. Leave it in a pile and he loads it, sweeps up and takes it away.
Not a bin size. A heap beside the driveway and one at the bottom of a steep yard are different jobs and get different prices.
Standing tree, asbestos, or more rubbish than garden — he tells you before he starts, not after.
A pruning pile hauled away and a few bags of leaf litter collected is the usual combination on a Canterbury block.
Piles of prunings, branches, hedge trimmings, leaves and weeds that won't fit in the green bin. Ross backs the trailer in, loads it himself and takes it away to be recycled — you don't lift a thing.
Clippings from formal gardens and hedges.
Doing a big garden clean-up — overgrown beds, a back corner nobody has touched in years, a rental between tenants or a property being tidied for sale? Pile it all up and Ross collects the lot in one visit.
Clean-up waste from big period gardens, collected.
Fallen limbs, shed bark, leaf litter and dry prunings gathered up from around the house — the fine fuel that matters most in a grassfire or ember attack. Collected and taken away before the Fire Danger Period starts.
Dead wood and dry leaves cleared from beds.
A gum has dropped a limb across the driveway, or a windy night has left the yard covered. Ross collects what's come down and hauls it away. Standing trees and hung-up limbs are an arborist's job — once they've dropped it, Ross can take it away.
Branches from big old oaks and elms.
Canterbury is known for its period homes — Victorian and Edwardian houses, Federation villas and interwar mansions on wide, tree-lined streets. Many of the gardens are as old as the houses, with formal hedges, rose beds, mature exotic trees and lawns that need regular care.
Gardens on that scale produce more than the council bin can handle, particularly around the autumn leaf fall and the winter prune. Ross offers green waste removal in Canterbury for exactly that overflow: he loads it by hand, keeps the site tidy and takes it away for recycling.
The trees that make Canterbury's streets so striking are also the ones that fill its gutters. Oaks, elms and plane trees drop huge volumes of leaves, and a big garden can easily produce several trailer loads over the season.
Formal gardens also need clipping. Box hedges, standards and topiary look their best when they're trimmed often, and that means a regular supply of fine clippings to dispose of.
Many Canterbury properties have original tiled paths, heritage fences and narrow side access. Ross carries material out rather than dragging it across paving, and he sweeps up before he goes.
If there's a particular gate to use or a spot to avoid, just say so when you book. It's your garden, and it should be left the way you'd expect.
Canterbury has many significant trees, and Boroondara City Council has rules about removing or pruning a lot of them. Ross doesn't cut down or climb trees.
What he will do is remove branches that have already fallen or been cut by an arborist, and collect the smaller debris around the base. If you're unsure whether a tree can be touched, check with the council first.
Canterbury's deciduous trees drop leaves from April well into June, and the oaks hang on longer still. A pickup at the peak and another once the last leaves are down keeps the lawn from dying off underneath them.
Suburb, roughly how much there is, and what the access is like. A photo saves a lot of back and forth.
Ross comes back with a number. On big or awkward jobs he has a look first rather than guessing.
Loaded by hand, driveway swept, and off for proper green waste disposal.
Ross runs this on his own. He quotes the job, he turns up, he loads the trailer and he takes it away — the same bloke every visit. There is no office in between, no skip company, and no franchise cut coming out of what you pay.
It also means he will tell you when something isn't his job — a standing tree that needs an arborist, or a pile that is more rubbish than garden — rather than taking the money and leaving you with half a problem.
The suburb, roughly how much there is, and how easy it is to get a trailer to it is enough to work with. A photo of the pile gets you a price fastest.
Prefer to talk? Call or text Ross on 0416 030 925. Monday to Saturday, daylight hours — weather permitting.
Get a price on your pile. Takes a minute — Ross reads them himself.
Thanks — that's gone through to Ross. Spring is his busiest time, so if it's close to fire season he may take a day or two.
