Planned Around Your Block.
Toorak lawns sit in a particular kind of garden. Large period mansions on leafy streets bring mature canopies, dappled shade and established soil, so a lawn here has to be chosen and built for those conditions rather than dropped on top of them. For shaded sections under old trees we pick a turf variety that copes with low light, and where the ground has compacted over the years we rebuild the base so it drains and feeds the grass. Artificial turf suits the shaded courtyards and side returns that never see enough sun for natural grass, staying flat and green all year. A lawn on a big block near Toorak Village is prepared with the same care as one tucked behind a heritage facade, so it stays sharp instead of thinning out by midsummer.