Tregea Landscaping

Wayne Tregea taught horticulture at Charles Darwin University from 2000 to 2007, and started Tregea Landscaping in Alice Springs in the September of that last year. He had been at it since 1988, beginning with the Department of Primary Industries and the cut flower industry, and later working as an extension officer with Agriculture Victoria. He holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in Horticulture and a Graduate Diploma in Teaching, along with a White Card, an Ochre Card, an EWP licence and a forklift licence.

The teaching never really stopped. It carries on inside the business, so every one of our staff is equipped to do the work safely, and there is more than 20 years of horticultural experience on the team. A fair bit of that is desert horticulture specifically, which is its own discipline and not one you pick up in a wetter part of the country.

The tree work is where that background earns its keep. We give advice and tree care to approved Australian Standards and practices, and our qualified arborists are set up to advise on the safety and care of trees in public places, at schools, at churches and anywhere else in the community where people walk underneath them.

That extends to tree audits and written safety audit reports for residential, commercial and institutional sites, with recommendations and long term maintenance programmes drawn up for the life of the tree rather than for a single visit. If you are responsible for a site with mature trees on it and need to know where you stand, this is the part to ask about.

On the ground, tree pruning and removal and stump grinding sit inside a wider garden maintenance service that also takes in mowing, whipper snipping, weeding, hedge trimming, fertilising, weed control and garden waste removal. We work on domestic and commercial gardens right across Alice.

We have the gear for all bobcat and dingo work as well, so a site can be cleared, levelled and contoured before a thing goes into it. We also design, install and maintain water-saving automatic irrigation systems, which out here is usually what decides whether a garden makes it through a summer or not. There is a DIY kit too, if you would rather do the planting yourself.

The business carries full public liability insurance and all work is carried out to industry safety standards. Ring Wayne on 0418 577 448, or send through a quote enquiry, and we will come and look at what you have got. The office runs Monday to Friday, 7am to 4pm.