How much landscaping job cost?
Don’t know about things “down under” but just want to suggest as a general rule, to get professional advice, you have to pay a professional person’s salary. There is some education involved and someone with experience in your area has even more valuable knowledge. Even for planting, I think it’d be worth it to pay for some experience. You could hire a strong high school kid for cheap, but if things are planted wrong and they all die, you’re out all the money and have to start over. Another thing, to give you idea what people pay for landscaping, when we built our house new, everything we read and were advised was to plan to spend at least 10% of the price of the house on landscaping. And over the first few years, we easily did that. That was starting from bare dirt, so included sod, a few big trees, shrubs, rock, mulch, etc.
