When my irrigation system comes on there is no pressure. What should I do?

Find the reticulation connection to the water mains. You will find a solenoid valve that has isolated the system from the mains. The valve has failed internally and is not opening fully. We recommend hiring an expert to replace it. If you have a bore, the pump or bore needs to be fixed by an expert.

What is better for a retaining wall, timber sleepers or blocks?

Treated timber is approved for in ground use and has a reasonable service life, however block retaining walls and concrete sleeper retaining walls are more durable having a greater life expectancy. This is based on suitable footings & good drainage. Both Blocks and concrete sleepers come in a wide range of colours, sizes and styles to create a more aesthetic landscape. Common styles of retainers walls to consider are timber sleep retaining walls, link wall or link block retaining walls and concrete sleeper walls

Should I pave or concrete?

While concrete certainly has its benefits, pavers give a more aesthetic finish to a landscape area. Pavers area available in range of colours, texture, styles and sizes. Larger format, 400mm and 500mm pavers have become increasingly popular with modern and contemporary landscape designs. Pavers are also commonly used for garden borders and edges for their straight line finish which is widely desired in modern landscape construction.

How do I maintain artificial grass?

Very little maintenance is required. Just sweep off any leaves or gently use a leaf blower. You can hose off any spills or pet messes. For pet solids, you just scoop up in the traditional way. You can hose or wipe down with cold water if required. To lift the fibres just use a broom to sweep in the opposite direction to your view point.

Do I need landscape design plans before I get a construction quote?

Yes. A landscape design will allow us to discuss the project with enough detail to allow for an accurate price estimate. This design process will also determine whether council approvals are required, which can impact cost and timing.

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Before starting, we’ll provide a clear, no-obligation quote for gardening services in Gladesville. To provide a precise quote, we often need a garden walkthrough first. Before quoting, we evaluate the garden’s size, and state, and align with your preferences and budget.

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When designing a garden, it’s useful to know what plants will enjoy the soil and climate conditions, what width and height they will grow to, what water and nutrient needs they have, how much sun they will need, what pests will show up and how to deal with them if/when they do, bird and insect attraction, etc.

Our experience ensures a garden design that’s uniquely yours. Understanding your garden vision and effort level is key for us. Our commitment to detail is consistent in designs and other garden services. With years of experience, countless clients rely on our annual services. For any garden concerns in Gladesville, get in touch via call or our site.

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Beautiful gardens are born from the dedication and meticulous care. Frequent maintenance ensures that desired pristine look. From mowing and weeding to fertilising and improving the soil, you have to tend to the garden to get the best results. For numerous homeowners today, this is a substantial concern. They want a beautifully manicured lawn and garden, but they do not have the necessary time to dedicate to growing or maintaining it.

What starts out as a labor of love turns into an obligation that you just don’t have time to fill. And the longer you postpone taking care of a garden or lawn, the more time you will have to spend fixing it up. This is a situation where people fail to make the most of their outdoor space. Having enriched the industry for decades, our Gladesville garden team knows its nuances. All Green Gardening and Landscaping joyfully designs gardens and combats pests. Our experience spans landscape design, soil health, and lawn care.

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It’s hard work to preserve a garden’s aesthetics. Regular maintenance, effort, and time – not everyone’s luxury, are essential here. Every garden is unique, so we provide bespoke gardening services. We amplify your garden’s beauty without a premium price tag. The technicians we partner with are well-equipped for any task at hand.

For different grasses in Gladesville, NSW 2111, our team is knowledgeable. Specialising in commercial mowing and acreage care, we bring both expertise and top-tier equipment.

Frequently Asked Questions

Seek the connection between reticulation and water mains. The solenoid valve has an internal flaw, hindering its full operation. It’s advised to get an expert for replacement.

While timber is ground-friendly, concrete and block walls are notably durable. For a varied landscape look, choose from blocks and sleepers’ range of styles. Timber sleep, link wall, and concrete sleeper stand out as popular retaining wall types.

Pavers, compared to concrete, elevate a landscape’s appearance.

For easy upkeep, minimal effort is needed—sweeping or using a leaf blower does the trick. Spills or pet messes? Hose them away effortlessly. For an elevated fiber look, employ a broom and sweep against your perspective.

Yes. A landscape design will allow us to discuss the project with enough detail to allow for an accurate price estimate. In our design process, we determine if council approvals are needed, impacting project costs and timelines.

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Car wash, Gladesville, NSW
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Bayview Hotel on Victoria Rd
Gladesville NSW.

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Gladesville NSW.

Former Commonwealth Bank, Gladesville, 28-12-2022
219 Victoria Road, Gladesville, NSW.

“Villa Maria” (The Priory), 10-12 Salter Street, Gladesville, NSW, formerly a Marist Mission Headquarters and part of Gladesville Hospital
Located down a quiet side street off busy Victoria Road in the Sydney suburb of Gladesville stands an elegant Victorian Regency house built in 1857. Called “Villa Maria” and later “The Priory”, it has a rich history being the built as the headquarters of the Marist Fathers missionary work in the Pacific. From 1888 the house had an even longer use accommodating patients from the nearby Gladesville Hospital for the Insane. The land on which Villa Maria was built was part of a 30 acre (12.1 ha) property belonging to William Johnston. In 1836 it was purchased by Thomas Stubbs (1802-1878), who erected a single-storey sandstone house there. Thomas had been born in NSW in 1802, the son of a Third Fleet convict, but left the colony in about 1812 to join the British Army’s 24th Regiment of Foot, the first currency lad to enlist. After his discharge, Thomas was permitted to return to Australia and arrived back in 1825. He sailed on board the “Lonarch” where he met his wife, Ann Elizabeth (nee Fitz) (1809-1881), who he married the following year at St Matthew’s Church of England, Windsor, NSW. In 1832 Thomas advertised the fact that he was a “Professor of the Royal Patent Kent Bugle”, a teacher of the flute, violin and French horn and a piano tuner. Perhaps his musical career did not pay the bills as in 1836, the year he purchased his property, he became a registered auctioneer. Thomas and Ann Elizabeth named their property, “Longwood”, after Longwood House on the island of St Helena, where Napoleon Bonaparte had died in 1821. In fact, one of Thomas’ sons, born in 1834, was called Napoleon. On “Longwood” Thomas and his family were assisted by two servants and a gardener but Thomas still had time to perform and compose music, including “The Australian Jubilee Waltz” in 1838. In 1847 Thomas sold Longwood and 18 acres (7.3 ha) of hillside land on the western slopes of Tarban Creek to the French missionary fathers of the Roman Catholic order, The Society of Mary (known as Marists). The Society of Mary had been founded in the diocese of Belley in France in 1822 by Jean-Claude Courveille (1787-1866) and Jean-Claude Colin (1790-1875) to undertake ministerial works in parishes, schools, hospital chaplaincies and foreign missions, while stressing the virtues of the Virgin Mary. The first Marist missionaries in the Pacific had arrived in Sydney as early as 1836, while two Marist Fathers, Jean-Louis Rocher (1809-1894) and Antoine Freydier-Dubreul, together with lay brother, Auguste Leblanc, arrived here in 1845, to found a supply base for their South Pacific missions. They carried a letter of introduction from the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda Fide, Rome, however, the Fathers were not well received in Sydney by Archbishop John Polding, who feared the Marists would complicate his plans to make Sydney an “abbey diocese” for his own Benedictine Order. Polding’s attitude caused the Marists to consider leaving Sydney and in May 1846 Freydier-Dubreul returned to Europe leaving Rocher in charge. Thomas’ cottage was purchased by Rocher and he renamed it “Villa Maria”. It served as a headquarters, store and place to recuperate for the missionaries after their arduous work. The dangerous nature of their undertakings was attested to by the fact that Rocher reported to the Superior-General that deaths from massacres and tropical diseases made the future of the mission off New Guinea very uncertain. Furthermore, a threatened slaughter of missionaries in New Caledonia had been narrowly averted by evacuating the Marists to the Sydney Mission headquarters. Other missionaries were not so fortunate. Father Peter Chanel (1803-1841) “met his martyrdom” after being clubbed to death on the island of Futuna, in the South Pacific, on 28 April 1841. His mummified remains were sent to New Zealand for seven years until moved to Sydney where they were temporarily placed in the community chapel at Villa Maria from May 1849 until January 1850 before being taken back to France. Paintings of Villa Maria executed in 1854 by an Italian artist and member of the Foreign Missionaries of Milan, who was staying at the house, show how it appeared at this time. They depict the main stone building as well as a wooden chapel, numerous temporary cottages, gardens, orchards, vineyards and a little wharf projecting into a stretch of water, since reclaimed. The small size of the available dwellings at the Mission and the large number of people sometimes needing accommodation, meant expansion of the Marist headquarters had become essential. In February, 1857, work commenced on major additions to the original cottage under the architect and civil engineer, William Weaver (1828-1868). Born in Somerset, England, Weaver had been a pupil of the civil engineers, Brassey and Peto of Bristol, and from 1846 trained in the office of Britain’s greatest engineer, I.K. Brunel, working on the Great Western Railway. Unwise investment in an unprofitable colliery saw Weaver migrate to Sydney in 1850. He became Edmund Blacket’s Clerk of Works in the Colonial Architect’s Office and in 1856 went into private practice at 25 Pitt Street, Sydney. The “Villa Maria” extensions are the only surviving example of his first year’s work. The Villa Maria commission involved demolishing an existing four-room building and reorientating the new mission building so it looked towards the harbour, taking full advantage of the site and its view. Sandstone was quarried on the site and stonemasons, including one of the Marist Brothers, Gennade Rolland, constructed a fine Victorian Regency style house at right angles to the original cottage. The new building is shown here with its symmetrical façade consisting of a two-storey central block with single-storey wings either side. Boxed eaves with supporting brackets, upper-storey windows with small panes, French windows on the ground floor with margin glazing and a panelled front door completed the picture of refinement and simple elegance. In 1859 Father Roche left Sydney on board the “Walter Hood” to return to France. In the fourteen years he had been Procureur for the Marist Missions in the South Pacific, the order’s missionary work had extended to cover nearly 2 million square miles (5,179,600 square km). The “Freeman’s Journal” at the time noted how “Young and zealous priests, nuns, and lay brothers have landed on these shores [in Sydney] without the publicity of an announcement, and silently sailed up the river [Parramatta] to the rendezvous at Villa Maria”. Despite the new additions, planned expansion of the Mission’s functions were in jeopardy because of the limitations for future development imposed by the deficiencies of the site and buildings. Even with the newly completed house, there were still inadequacies in the kitchen, chapel and the living quarters for the brothers. Villa Maria was also difficult to reach by road from Sydney and it lacked a deep-water wharf so the transport of goods by water was also a problem. In January 1860 a house and three acres of land came up for sale at Hunters Hill on the other side of Tarban Creek almost opposite Villa Maria. The new land included the much-needed deep-water wharf. More land subsequently became available and the Marists had a new, purpose-built monastery erected there in Mary Street, Hunters Hill. They moved to their new location in late 1865, taking the name, Villa Maria, with them. After they moved from Gladesville, attempts were made to sell the original Villa Maria to the New South Wales Government for the nearby Hospital for the Insane but they were unsuccessful. The Marists then retained the old property for some time and it was used as a convent. It was finally sold in 1874 to the Sydney solicitor, Thomas Salter, as his family home. By this time the property supported “forty kinds of fruit trees in an orchard” and a vineyard with stock said to have been brought from the Cape of Good Hope. Thomas renamed the property “The Priory” in deference to its former use. He had further additions made to the house in about 1875 with an L-shaped, picturesque Gothic extension, and remained there until he sold it in 1888. The auction notice in “The Sydney Morning Herald” for the site described The Priory as comprising a drawing room, breakfast room, library, four bedrooms, several smaller rooms, a bathroom with water laid on, dressing room, laundry, two pantries, servants’ rooms, kitchen and cellar as well as a detached stable. The 18-acre property also included a four-room cottage, was partly terraced and featured vegetable and fruit gardens and “well-grassed” paddocks. It was advertised as being located on one of the prettiest inlets of the Parramatta River, was close to the Gladesville Steamers’ wharf and the new road bridge to Sydney. Ultimately, The Priory was purchased by the State Government for part of Gladesville Hospital, providing arable land for the agricultural pursuits of Dr Frederic Norton Manning (1839-1903), Inspector of the Insane with responsibility for all the State mental institutions between 1879 and 1898. Dr Manning initiated radical changes to patient care, facilities, recreation and diet at the institutions under his care. He was Medical Superintendent at Gladesville, formerly called the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, from 1868 to 1879, and in 1870 he established horticultural pursuits to provide patients with meaningful outdoor activities. At The Priory, extra rooms were added, a rear courtyard was formed by extending the sides of the house and small outbuildings erected around the grounds. The main house was used as ward accommodation and its fine rooms with their high ceilings housed rows of metal beds. The patients tended the gardens as part of their therapy and by 1953 it housed male patients whose beds of dahlias were renown and in 1975 The Priory was known as Ward 2 (of Gladesville Hospital). Following an inquiry into the health services of the psychiatrically ill, the Richmond Report of 1983 recommended that the New South Wales Government close its big hospital-based mental institutions and instead invest in a co-ordinated system of community services. Consequently, at the end of 1985, the last few patients were moved out of The Priory. In that year the house was externally restored and converted to a new use as the office of the Mental Health Tribunal and used for this purpose until 2003. Since 2007 it has been owned by Hunters Hill Council who are currently (2022) reviewing a development application for its reuse as a restaurant. References Advertising (1880, February 18). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 10. Retrieved August 19, 2022, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13453449 Entry for Thomas Stubbs, Australharmony, University of Sydney www.sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/stubbs-thomas-... FATHER ROCHER'S DEPARTURE. (1859, April 20). Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932), p. 2. Retrieved August 19, 2022, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115558465 Maguire, Roslyn “Introducing Mr William Weaver, architect and engineer”, in Heritage Australia, Vo 3, No.1, Winter 1984, pp.46-8. Norrie, Dr Philip “Vineyards of Sydney: Cradle of the Australian Wine Industry from first settlement to Today”, Horwitz Grahame Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1990. Powell, Carol “A River Revived: The Parramatta”, New South Wales University Press, Kensington, NSW, 1987. Simpson, Margaret “Old Sydney Buildings Vol II”, unpublished manuscript.

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Reformed Evangelical Church of Indonesia, Gladesville, Sydney, NSW.
1/3 Pearson St, Gladesville, NSW. Former Uniting Church.

Sydney B-P Church, Gladesville, Sydney, NSW.
40 Stanbury St, Gladesville, NSW.

Presbyterian Church, Gladesville, Sydney, NSW.
2 Pittwater Road, Gladesville, NSW.

Fire Station, Gladesville, Sydney, NSW.
7A Pittwater Rd, Gladesville, NSW.

St Andrew Greek Orthodox Church, Gladesville, Sydney, NSW.
20 Wharf Rd, Gladesville, NSW.

Unitning Church, Boronia Park, Sydney, NSW.
93 Pittwater Rd, Gladesville, NSW.

Electrical Sub Station No 129, Gladesville, Sydney, NSW.
38 Pittwater Rd, Gladesville, NSW.

Sydney BP Church, Gladesville, Sydney, NSW.
40 Stanbury St, Gladesville, NSW.

Bayview Hotel, Gladesville, Sydney, NSW.
166 Victoria Rd, Gladesville, NSW

(SS-0153) - SS Karingal
Ferry, SS Karingal, passing through the opened, original, Gladesville swing bridge, Sydney, around 1913. Please go here to see more www.flickr.com/photos/69559277@N04/sets/72157628124846134... This image was produced from the original negative, held in my collection.