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Landscaping in Vermont.

Vermont grew up as an orchard township on the green hills east of Melbourne, and the housing that replaced the fruit trees from the 1950s left gardens with real scope for outdoor living. We build for that: a terrace sized for a table everyone actually fits around, a lawn that takes the overflow, and beds with enough structure to hold it together through the year. Two of the brothers came out of civil construction as senior project managers, so the scoping, drainage and base work on a Vermont build get settled in full before the first paver goes down.

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What’s Included

Everything Under One Build.

A transformation is rarely one trade.

Gardenscape scopes and delivers the lot as a single coordinated project:

Retaining walls
Paving and concreting
Garden beds and softscapes
Excavation and site preparation
Drainage and levelling
Turf, natural or artificial, to finish

Our Landscaping Process

Our Process

Run Like a Major Project.

Site Assessment

We walk the space with you, talk through what you want from it, and look at what is under the surface.

Scope and Quote

A clear written scope and a straight quote. You know exactly what is being built and why.

The Build

Sequenced properly so trades never trip over each other. Honest timelines and clear communication throughout.

Handover

A finished space the brothers put their name behind. Built Right. Built to Last.

Landscaping in Vermont

Outdoor Living on Old Orchard Ground.

The Ground Under a Vermont Garden.

Vermont clay is not a guess. A pit opened on Mitcham Road in 1925 because the clay under this suburb pressed well enough to become terracotta roof tiles, and the works that grew around it at number 656 now sits on the Victorian Heritage Register. That is the ground your terrace footings and lawn base go into: dense, slow to let water through, and unforgiving if the levels are wrong. Water here has history too. The creek through Bellbird Dell ran south to the Dandenong Creek system until a flood put it in a barrel underground in 1972, and the low lines it drained still gather water after a downpour. So we settle the fall, the drainage and the base first, then build the terrace, paving and beds you actually came for, with one accountable team from the first sketch to the final clean up. See our turf installation in Vermont. We also build across Forest Hill, Nunawading, Mitcham and Ringwood.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything You Need to Know

Which council approves work on a Vermont garden?

It depends which part of the suburb you are in. Vermont is split between the City of Whitehorse and the City of Maroondah, so two planning schemes cover one postcode. Inside a Maroondah Significant Landscape Overlay a permit is required to remove a tree with a single trunk circumference over 0.5 metres measured a metre above the ground, or a height over 5 metres. We check your address against the right scheme before designing anything near a tree.

Is the clay under a Vermont block really that heavy?

Heavy enough that it was quarried. A clay pit opened on Mitcham Road in 1925 to feed a terracotta roof tile works, and that plant still stands at 656 Mitcham Road on the Victorian Heritage Register as the most intact pre war tile works in the state. Clay that presses into roof tiles will not drain by itself, so we cut the levels, build the fall and lay drainage before any paving or turf goes down.

Will a paved entertaining area drain properly in Vermont?

Only if it is designed to. Vermont sits on undulating ground around 117 metres up and sheds south toward the Dandenong Creek catchment. The creek through Bellbird Dell fed that system until a flood saw it barrelled underground in 1972, and the old low lines still collect water after heavy rain. A terrace here needs a designed fall and somewhere definite for the water to go, which we build in from the start.

Can you get machinery and materials onto a Vermont block?

Usually, with planning. Vermont has no railway station of its own and Canterbury Road carries the through traffic, so everything arrives by road along streets laid out when the place was still orchards. We stage the excavation, base material and paving so the heavy loads land in the right order and the street is not blocked longer than it needs to be.

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