At Common Ground Property Services we go the extra mile to keep on top of garden maintenance for our body corporate and commercial clients, because we know how quickly things can get out of hand in Brisbane’s sub-topical climate!

Take for example a small apartment complex in Toowong, at which Common Ground took over the ongoing garden maintenance work last week. The gardens are not large, but were very badly neglected after the previous contractor failed to keep up with a programme of regular maintenance. Our staff have now started the job of getting the property’s gardens back up to scratch for the body corporate committee, and removed an amazing 254kg of weeds and weedy shrubs from the small garden beds at the rear  and side of the property. Unbelievably we will need to return next week to tackle the remaining garden beds, which are approximately the same size as those already cleared.

When we first saw these garden beds at Toowong in such bad disrepair it was hard to know where to start! Should we remove the weedy shrubs first, take the vines off the clotheslines and fences, or start by slashing the waist high weedy undergrowth? In the end we started with the weedy shrubs, and the improvement after a day of clearing was dramatic. Tenants stopped us to thank us for the work we were doing, and a body corporate committee member emailed to tell us how great things were starting to look. This positive feedback will spur us on to complete the clean-up, and memories of how the gardens looked when we first arrived will serve as motivation not to let things get out of control again.

 If you feel your body corporate or commercial property’s lawns and gardens could benefit from improved attention, please contact us anytime to arrange a site inspection.