Since 1995

Melbourne's Trusted Gardening & Landscaping Company

Cost-effective garden maintenance and landscaping, delivered by one of Melbourne's most established landscaping companies.

Est. 1995 - 30 Years  / Licenced & fully Insured / 4.1 Star Average Google Reviews

Melbourne's garden maintenance and landscaping specialists

Consolidated Horticultural Services is a family-founded gardening company that has cared for Melbourne gardens since 1995. From ongoing garden maintenance to complete landscape construction, we work across the city's inner, eastern, and south-eastern suburbs — bringing council-grade horticultural expertise to every property. As one of Melbourne's most established landscaping companies, our reputation is built on consistency, craftsmanship, and long-term relationships with the clients whose gardens we help grow.

Our Services

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Garden Maintenance

We provide a service that maintains all aspects of your garden.
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Earthmoving & Transport

CHS operates a range of excavators and tracked loaders to minimise impact on the ground.
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Irrigation Installation & Maintenance

We have vast experience in irrigation design and installation; whether it be a simple single valve system or a huge 60 valve system
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More than 30 years in the business

Meet Alistair Bethke, founder

Consolidated Horticultural Services was founded in 1995 by Alistair Bethke, after he had spent seven years working for the City of Melbourne’s Parks and Gardens division. With his broad experience and hands on approach, Alistair has developed a reputation for maintaining premium gardens across Melbourne’s inner suburbs, many of which have been captured in Paul Bangay’s books.


At CHS, our standard-driven service places a high value on horticultural excellence, as well as the development of positive relationships with clients as we help their gardens grow and develop over time.

🏅 Gardens featured in Paul Bangay’s books

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Call us on 0417 336 426 or contact us for your free quote.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Melbourne's trusted garden maintenance and landscaping company. From the areas we service to how to get started.

  • What areas of Melbourne does CHS service?

    Consolidated Horticultural Services is one of Melbourne's most established gardening companies, servicing inner, eastern, and south-eastern suburbs including Toorak, Carlton, Fitzroy, Beaconsfield, and Glen Waverley. Visit our Areas Served page for a full list of suburbs we cover.

  • How long has CHS been operating?

    CHS was founded in 1995, giving us over 30 years of experience delivering garden maintenance and landscaping across Melbourne. Our founder, Alistair Bethke, also spent seven years with the City of Melbourne's Parks and Gardens division before establishing the business.

  • What services do you offer?

    As a full-service landscaping company, we cover garden maintenance, landscape design and construction, paving and hardscaping, hedge trimming and pruning, lawn care, irrigation, and water tank installation. See our Services page for the complete range.

  • Is CHS licensed and insured?

    Yes. CHS is fully licensed and insured, with over 30 years of trading history and a 4.9-star rating from 40 Google reviews.

  • How do I get a quote?

    Get in touch via our contact page or call us directly. We'll ask a few questions about your garden or project and arrange a time to assess the site before providing a written quote.

  • What makes CHS different from other landscaping companies in Melbourne?

    Our team combines council-level horticultural expertise with three decades of private landscaping work. Including gardens featured in renowned landscape designer Paul Bangay's published books. That's a level of craftsmanship most gardening companies in Melbourne can't match.

Find out how we can help you!

Call us on 0417 336 426 or contact us for your free quote.
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Great group of hardworking people! I’ve been working with them all for a few months and everyone has been really friendly and happy and do good work. High end properties and they pay well.

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Not every great garden is built for sun. Some of the best ones are built around the shade. Under the canopy of this big old tree, layers of ferns and broad-leafed shade planting fill out the bed, with a carpet of small white flowers spilling over the curved brick edge. Spring growth is well underway and the whole bed is lush right now. Shade gardens look effortless, but keeping them this healthy takes regular attention. A mature tree pulls a lot of water and nutrients out of the soil, so the planting underneath is competing all year round. Good garden maintenance here is about consistency: feeding, mulching, cutting back tired growth, keeping edges crisp and the brick paths clear of leaf litter. If there’s a shady corner in your Melbourne garden that never seems to thrive, it’s usually fixable with the right plants and the right routine. ? Link in bio for a quote. #ShadeGarden #GardenMaintenance #MelbourneGardens #MelbourneLandscaping #ConhortServices
Not every great garden is built for sun. Some of the best ones are built around the shade. Under the canopy of this big old tree, layers of ferns and broad-leafed shade planting fill out the bed, with a carpet of small white flowers spilling over the curved brick edge. Spring growth is well underway and the whole bed is lush right now. Shade gardens look effortless, but keeping them this healthy takes regular attention. A mature tree pulls a lot of water and nutrients out of the soil, so the planting underneath is competing all year round. Good garden maintenance here is about consistency: feeding, mulching, cutting back tired growth, keeping edges crisp and the brick paths clear of leaf litter. If there’s a shady corner in your Melbourne garden that never seems to thrive, it’s usually fixable with the right plants and the right routine. 🌿 Link in bio for a quote. #ShadeGarden #GardenMaintenance #MelbourneGardens #MelbourneLandscaping #ConhortServices
A proper spring tidy up is mostly about the edges. ? This front garden in Malvern has just had one. Hedge clipped back square along the fence line, the curved lawn mown and edged clean against the beds, and the borders cleared out so the flowering shrubs and lilies have room to do their thing as the weather warms. It’s the kind of garden that suits a period home like this. Black and white tiled path, a lawn that sweeps round in a curve, and planting soft enough to spill over the edges without looking messy. The trick is keeping that balance. Leave it a few weeks in October and the hedge fuzzes up, the lawn creeps into the beds and the whole thing loses its shape. Garden maintenance in Malvern and across Melbourne’s inner east is about staying ahead of spring growth, not catching up on it. Full before and after from this one is coming soon. Worth the wait. #ConhortServices #CHS #MelbourneGardens #SpringGardening #MalvernGardens
A proper spring tidy up is mostly about the edges. 🌿 This front garden in Malvern has just had one. Hedge clipped back square along the fence line, the curved lawn mown and edged clean against the beds, and the borders cleared out so the flowering shrubs and lilies have room to do their thing as the weather warms. It’s the kind of garden that suits a period home like this. Black and white tiled path, a lawn that sweeps round in a curve, and planting soft enough to spill over the edges without looking messy. The trick is keeping that balance. Leave it a few weeks in October and the hedge fuzzes up, the lawn creeps into the beds and the whole thing loses its shape. Garden maintenance in Malvern and across Melbourne’s inner east is about staying ahead of spring growth, not catching up on it. Full before and after from this one is coming soon. Worth the wait. #ConhortServices #CHS #MelbourneGardens #SpringGardening #MalvernGardens
Spring in Melbourne means one thing for lawns: they grow fast, and they show every shortcut. ? This one’s had the full treatment. A clean mow in alternating directions to lay down those stripes, sharp edges where the grass meets the beds, and the borders kept tidy right up to the brick pergola. The stripes aren’t paint or magic. Each pass bends the grass blades in the opposite direction, so the light catches them differently. It’s simple in theory, but it only looks this good when the lawn underneath is healthy, evenly cut and mown at the right height. October is when Melbourne lawns properly wake up after winter. Mowing more often and taking less off each time keeps the colour even and stops that scalped, patchy look as the weather warms. Regular garden maintenance like this is what keeps a property looking sharp all season, not a one-off tidy before guests arrive. Want your lawn looking like this by summer? Link in bio for a quote. #ConhortServices #MelbourneLandscaping #GardenMaintenance #LawnStripes #MelbourneGardens
Spring in Melbourne means one thing for lawns: they grow fast, and they show every shortcut. 🌿 This one’s had the full treatment. A clean mow in alternating directions to lay down those stripes, sharp edges where the grass meets the beds, and the borders kept tidy right up to the brick pergola. The stripes aren’t paint or magic. Each pass bends the grass blades in the opposite direction, so the light catches them differently. It’s simple in theory, but it only looks this good when the lawn underneath is healthy, evenly cut and mown at the right height. October is when Melbourne lawns properly wake up after winter. Mowing more often and taking less off each time keeps the colour even and stops that scalped, patchy look as the weather warms. Regular garden maintenance like this is what keeps a property looking sharp all season, not a one-off tidy before guests arrive. Want your lawn looking like this by summer? Link in bio for a quote. #ConhortServices #MelbourneLandscaping #GardenMaintenance #LawnStripes #MelbourneGardens
Half the job is getting the gear there. ? This Komatsu excavator is chained down on the float and ready to roll out to the next site. Moving heavy machinery around Melbourne is its own piece of planning. It takes the right float, a load that's secured properly and a route that suits a wide, heavy load. Get any of that wrong and the day's gone before a bucket hits the ground. Running our own earthmoving and transport means the machine turns up when the job needs it, not when someone else can fit it in. That's how CHS has kept civil earthworks moving across Melbourne for over 30 years, from growth corridor estates to tight inner-suburb blocks. One site done, next one lined up. #EarthmovingAndTransport #MelbourneEarthworks #KomatsuExcavator #CHS #ConhortServices
Half the job is getting the gear there. 🚜 This Komatsu excavator is chained down on the float and ready to roll out to the next site. Moving heavy machinery around Melbourne is its own piece of planning. It takes the right float, a load that's secured properly and a route that suits a wide, heavy load. Get any of that wrong and the day's gone before a bucket hits the ground. Running our own earthmoving and transport means the machine turns up when the job needs it, not when someone else can fit it in. That's how CHS has kept civil earthworks moving across Melbourne for over 30 years, from growth corridor estates to tight inner-suburb blocks. One site done, next one lined up. #EarthmovingAndTransport #MelbourneEarthworks #KomatsuExcavator #CHS #ConhortServices
Some days you're the biggest machine on site. Some days you're not even close. ? The team was working around this pair on a new residential estate recently. A big Komatsu excavator and a CAT dozer were shifting rock that garden-scale gear wouldn't even scratch. Have a look at the size of those boulders along the fence line. It's a good reminder of how big civil earthworks in Melbourne can get. A job like this usually has several contractors on the same ground at once, each with their own scope. The whole site runs on everyone knowing where the machines are, where the exclusion zones sit, and who's moving what. That's the side of the industry CHS has worked in for over 30 years, alongside the garden work most people know us for. The scale is different but the rule is the same: the ground has to be right before anything goes on top of it. #Earthmoving #CivilEarthworks #MelbourneEarthworks #CHS #ConhortServices
Some days you're the biggest machine on site. Some days you're not even close. 🚜 The team was working around this pair on a new residential estate recently. A big Komatsu excavator and a CAT dozer were shifting rock that garden-scale gear wouldn't even scratch. Have a look at the size of those boulders along the fence line. It's a good reminder of how big civil earthworks in Melbourne can get. A job like this usually has several contractors on the same ground at once, each with their own scope. The whole site runs on everyone knowing where the machines are, where the exclusion zones sit, and who's moving what. That's the side of the industry CHS has worked in for over 30 years, alongside the garden work most people know us for. The scale is different but the rule is the same: the ground has to be right before anything goes on top of it. #Earthmoving #CivilEarthworks #MelbourneEarthworks #CHS #ConhortServices