where we work
Four regions, four different growing conditions
We take on work across Sydney, the Illawarra, the Southern Highlands and the Central Coast — and we treat them as the genuinely different places they are.
Coastal Sydney is warm temperate: the tropical-looking palette people ask for works, but it's a curated choice rather than something the climate hands you, and it slows right down over winter. The Southern Highlands sits high enough for real frosts, which rules out a lot of that material and opens up a cool-climate palette — maples, hellebores, deciduous magnolia — that struggles down on the coastal plain. The Illawarra catches more rain and holds moisture off the escarpment. Western Sydney gets frosts the eastern suburbs never see.
Getting that wrong is how plants die slowly and expensively. So the species list changes with the zone you're actually in — and if you're near the edge of a region, tell us your suburb and we'll say plainly what will and won't hold up there.
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