Aged care and retirement village grounds maintenance across south-east Melbourne

Aged care grounds maintenance is presentation work with a duty of care attached. Families judge a facility from the front garden before they reach reception, and residents use the grounds every day, some of them unsteadily.

Aged care mowing and edging on a schedule built around rest periods and dining times. Garden bed maintenance, weed control and mulching so beds frame the buildings instead of apologising for them. Hedge and shrub trimming to a species appropriate schedule, seasonal pruning, and green waste removed the same visit so paths and ramps are never left obstructed. Along the way, the things a contractor notices before an audit does: lifting pavers, irrigation faults, branches over walkways, and beds that need replanting before winter makes it obvious.

Retirement village garden maintenance runs the same way across larger sites: village greens, unit frontages on common title, community centre surrounds and the entrance that sets the tone for every family visit.

$20M public and products liability with a certificate of currency available for your records. Police check and Working with Children Check held. White Card for sites that require induction. Safe work practice around residents, visitors and vehicles, documented simply enough to sit in the facility's contractor file without a follow-up email. Established 2020, owner-operated, and references from commercial and body corporate clients available on request.

Most facilities inherit an established landscape rather than a new one, so the work is landscape maintenance rather than construction. Kanga keeps the existing plantings, lawns, hedges and garden beds in the condition the original design intended, replaces individual plants as they fail, and flags anything structural, such as lifting pavers or a branch over a walking route, for the facility to decide on. Tree work above 3.5 metres and new landscape construction sit outside the service and are referred on request.