Planned Around Your Block.
Doncaster sits high and sheds water. The suburb sits at roughly 108 metres around Doncaster Hill, and the land falls away from there to Ruffey Creek on the Templestowe side and Koonung Creek to the south. The catchment is demanding enough that retardation basins were built into what is now Ruffey Lake Park just to slow the stormwater down. Your backyard is doing a smaller version of the same job. Below it is grey loam over Silurian clay that holds water and sets hard under foot, which is why we rebuild the ground rather than dress it: excavation, corrected falls, a free draining base, then a hard wearing natural variety like Sir Walter Buffalo laid tight across the bigger areas these blocks allow. Where a section sits in permanent shade or on a grade no grass will hold, artificial turf goes there instead and stays flat and green through the year. We also lay turf across Doncaster East and Templestowe, and when the whole yard is in play, our landscaping in Doncaster runs off the same base work.
