Hedge Trimming in Melbourne
Straight lines, even faces and hedges kept at a height you can live with.
Hedges do a lot of work in Melbourne gardens. They give privacy from the street, screen out neighbours and frame the formal front gardens that suit so many period homes. Left for a season, though, they lose their shape quickly, spill over paths and turn into a much bigger job to bring back.
We trim and shape hedges of all sizes, from low box borders to tall lilly pilly screens, keeping the tops level and the faces even. We also cut with the plant's health in mind: keeping a hedge slightly narrower at the top than the base lets light reach the lower branches, so it stays dense right down to the ground.
What's included
- Trimming tops and faces to a clean, even line
- Shaping formal box hedges, balls and borders
- Reducing the height and width of overgrown hedges, staged where needed
- Cutting growth back from paths, driveways, fences and windows
- Raking up and clearing away the clippings
- Advice on feeding, watering and pests such as lilly pilly psyllid
When to trim hedges in Melbourne
Most Melbourne hedges put on their main flush of growth in spring, so the most important trim comes in late spring or early summer once that new growth has firmed up. A second, lighter trim in late summer or early autumn keeps them tidy through winter.
Fast growers like murraya, photinia and lilly pilly may need three or four trims a year to stay sharp, while English box and other slow growers are often fine with two. Avoid hard cuts during heatwaves, when freshly exposed leaves can scorch, and save big height reductions for late winter or early spring, when the plant recovers fastest.
Hedge Trimming near you
Often requested in these suburbs, and available across all of our service areas.
Hedge Trimming: your questions answered
How often should a hedge be trimmed?
Fast-growing hedges like lilly pilly, murraya and photinia usually need trimming three or four times a year. Slower growers like English box and Japanese box are often fine with two. Regular light trims keep a hedge denser than one hard cut a year.
Can you reduce the height of a very tall hedge?
Usually, yes. Most common hedging plants recover well from a height reduction, although a big cut is best done in stages and timed for late winter or early spring. We'll look at the species and its condition and suggest how far to go in one visit.
Why do the new leaves on my lilly pilly have pimples and curl up?
That's almost always lilly pilly psyllid, a sap-sucking insect common across Melbourne. The damage is mostly cosmetic. Trimming off affected new growth helps, and choosing a psyllid-resistant variety is worth considering if you're planting a new hedge.
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