Lawn mowing in Mill Park

About Mill Park

Most of Mill Park is single-storey brick on a decent block, laid out when a backyard was still expected to have a lawn in it. So there is a front lawn with a nature strip in front of it and a back lawn behind the carport, usually kikuyu or couch on the basalt clay that runs under the whole of the north. The clay holds water through winter and sets hard in a dry January; the same lawn can be boggy in July and dusty in February. Mowers price for the grass, not the postcode - the lawn area and how long it has been left decide the number.

The suburb sits between Plenty Road and the Plenty River, with the wetlands and Yellow Gum Park along the eastern edge and the Blue Lake in the old quarry. The shops are at the Stables and Westfield Plenty Valley, and the leisure centre reopened in 2021 after a $25 million rebuild. Streets near the river and the Stables end have more established trees, which means shade, leaf drop and buffalo doing better than couch. Further west toward Childs Road it is more open and the couch lawns get the full sun they want.

Whittlesea is strict on nature strips: it is the resident's job to keep the strip mown and free of weeds and scrub. Most mowers here do the strip as part of a standard visit, so ask for it when you list rather than after.