Malvern's walled gardens, clipped hedges and big exotic trees keep a gardener busy. Ross takes the clippings and prunings away in a tidy, hand-loaded pickup.
Not a franchisee or a truck driver from a booking system. The bloke who quotes it is the bloke who loads it.
No bags to fill, no skip to load. Leave it in a pile and he loads it, sweeps up and takes it away.
Not a bin size. A heap beside the driveway and one at the bottom of a steep yard are different jobs and get different prices.
Standing tree, asbestos, or more rubbish than garden — he tells you before he starts, not after.
A pruning pile hauled away and a few bags of leaf litter collected is the usual combination on a Malvern block.
Piles of prunings, branches, hedge trimmings, leaves and weeds that won't fit in the green bin. Ross backs the trailer in, loads it himself and takes it away to be recycled — you don't lift a thing.
Clippings from walled and formal gardens.
Doing a big garden clean-up — overgrown beds, a back corner nobody has touched in years, a rental between tenants or a property being tidied for sale? Pile it all up and Ross collects the lot in one visit.
Heritage gardens tidied for sale or lease.
Fallen limbs, shed bark, leaf litter and dry prunings gathered up from around the house — the fine fuel that matters most in a grassfire or ember attack. Collected and taken away before the Fire Danger Period starts.
Dead wood and dry leaves cleared before the heat.
A gum has dropped a limb across the driveway, or a windy night has left the yard covered. Ross collects what's come down and hauls it away. Standing trees and hung-up limbs are an arborist's job — once they've dropped it, Ross can take it away.
Fallen limbs from big exotic trees removed.
Malvern is one of Stonnington's oldest and most established suburbs. Victorian and Edwardian houses line wide streets off Glenferrie Road, High Street and Malvern Road, and many sit behind high front walls or thick hedges with formal gardens inside.
Those gardens often have a gardener who comes weekly or fortnightly, and the clippings build up faster than the council bin can take them. Ross offers regular or one-off green waste collections in Malvern, loading everything by hand and leaving paths and drives swept.
Plenty of Malvern homes have a gardener or landscaper who does the maintenance but doesn't cart away the waste. The clippings end up in a corner behind the garage or stuffed into bins for weeks.
Ross can come after the gardener's big seasonal jobs — the hedge trim, the winter prune — and take everything in one go. Some clients just leave the gate open and a note.
Most Malvern properties have limited trailer access. The front wall or fence runs right along the boundary, the driveway may lead to a garage at the back, and paths are often original tiles or bluestone.
Ross carries material out carefully, uses a tarp to protect paving where it helps, and cleans up after himself. If there's a preferred route through the garden, just let him know.
Formal planting is a feature of many Malvern gardens — box hedges, clipped standards, pleached trees and topiary. It all looks sharp when trimmed, and every trim leaves fine clippings that need collecting.
Loose clippings are no problem. Ross gathers them up and loads them with the rest.
July and August are when Malvern's roses, fruit trees and deciduous shrubs get cut back, and the green bins are full for weeks afterwards. A single pickup at the end of the pruning season clears it all before spring growth starts.
Suburb, roughly how much there is, and what the access is like. A photo saves a lot of back and forth.
Ross comes back with a number. On big or awkward jobs he has a look first rather than guessing.
Loaded by hand, driveway swept, and off for proper green waste disposal.
Ross runs this on his own. He quotes the job, he turns up, he loads the trailer and he takes it away — the same bloke every visit. There is no office in between, no skip company, and no franchise cut coming out of what you pay.
It also means he will tell you when something isn't his job — a standing tree that needs an arborist, or a pile that is more rubbish than garden — rather than taking the money and leaving you with half a problem.
The suburb, roughly how much there is, and how easy it is to get a trailer to it is enough to work with. A photo of the pile gets you a price fastest.
Prefer to talk? Call or text Ross on 0416 030 925. Monday to Saturday, daylight hours — weather permitting.
Get a price on your pile. Takes a minute — Ross reads them himself.
Thanks — that's gone through to Ross. Spring is his busiest time, so if it's close to fire season he may take a day or two.
