Lawn mowing in Croydon Hills

About Croydon Hills

Luther College opened on Plymouth Road in 1964 while the land around it was still orchards and farms, and the houses came in the 1980s. Croydon Hills Primary followed in 1988, with 557 pupils by 2014, and Good Shepherd Lutheran Primary is also here. The housing is predominantly fully detached on landscaped blocks; only ten dwellings were semi-detached at the 2011 count. Plymouth Road is the southern boundary, Yarra Road the eastern and Bemboka Road the western, with Anglican and Baptist churches on Bemboka Road. Shops are at McAdam Square in Croydon opposite Luther College, and the nearest station is Croydon, with buses 668 and 672.

Houses here typically have a garden front and back, so there may be two lawns to trace, and if the turf went down with a 1980s house it is about forty years old. The ground is about 131 m up. Yarrunga Reserve adjoins the primary school with a community centre, tennis courts and wetlands, and linear parks carry walking tracks through the suburb. Settlers Orchard, Candlebark Walk and Narr-Maen Reserve are the bushland parks. Which way a particular block falls is another matter. Whether the front and back lawns are on the same level, whether the drive is the only way through, and what the trees drop are the things to add.

Maroondah owns the nature strip, and the rule is that residents keep it tidy and do not change it without the council's approval. Where a planting is approved the owner takes on its upkeep, and the council keeps planting thousands of strip trees a year. Garden and food waste go in the FOGO bin with the lime-green lid, which is emptied fortnightly in the week the recycling is not; garbage goes weekly.