Cowes · Phillip Island

Your lawn cut,
your garden kept,
while you get on with it.

Cowes Family Mowing & Maintenance looks after lawns and gardens right across Phillip Island. Mowing, hedging, weeding, mulching and the green waste gone when we leave. Whether you are here all year or the house sits empty between visits, you come home to a place that has been looked after.

5.0

from 118 Google reviews

9 suburbs

covered across the island

6 days

Monday through Saturday

A member of the Cowes Family Mowing and Maintenance team in branded workwear behind a commercial stand on mower, with the Phillip Island shoreline behind
CowesVentnorRhyllSilverleavesSunset StripSmiths BeachSurf BeachSunderland BayWimbledon Heights

What we do

Ten jobs, one
phone call.

Most places need a bit of everything. Rather than chase three different people, you get the lot done in one visit, by the same crew, who already know the property.

A large freshly mown lawn at a Phillip Island property with a team member clearing near the house with a backpack blower
  1. 01

    Lawn care / Maintenance

    Regular cuts or a one off tidy up, edges included, clippings taken away.

  2. 02

    Garden design

    Planning out a bed or a whole yard so it suits the block and the salt air.

  3. 03

    Weed control

    Beds, paths, driveways and fence lines brought back under control.

  4. 04

    Pruning / Hedging

    Hedges squared up, shrubs shaped, overgrown natives brought back into line.

  5. 05

    Plant / Tree removal

    Taking out what has outgrown the spot, roots and all where it needs it.

  6. 06

    Planting

    New plants in, spaced and set so they have a fair go at establishing.

  7. 07

    Mulching

    Fresh mulch laid over the beds, which is what makes a garden look finished.

  8. 08

    Leaf blowing / Collection

    Paths, drives and lawns cleared, then everything blown back and collected.

  9. 09

    Waste removal

    The green waste goes with us. Nothing left in a pile by the shed.

  10. 10

    Handyman work

    The small jobs around the yard that never quite get to the top of the list.

Not sure which of those you need? Tell us what the place looks like and we will work it out for you.

Call 0437 287 065

Before and after

The difference is the tidy up at the end.

Before and after of a front garden bed: overgrown ornamental grasses, then the same bed ball trimmed with fresh mulch laid

Front garden, shaped and mulched

Shaggy natives brought back to a clean line.

Same four plants, same bed. Trimmed back into shape, the spent growth pulled out, then a fresh layer of mulch over the top. That last step is the one people skip, and it is the one that makes a garden look deliberate rather than just cut.

  • Pruning / Hedging
  • Weed control
  • Mulching
  • Waste removal
Before and after of a large sloping coastal nature strip, mown and edged, with new housing and Bass Strait behind

Coastal block, mown and edged

Big open blocks are what the gear is for.

A wide sloping corner block on the new estates is a long afternoon with a push mower. On a commercial stand on machine it is a straight run, and the edges get done properly instead of being left for next time.

  • Lawn care / Maintenance
  • Leaf blowing / Collection
  • Waste removal
A wide striped lawn with two mature gum trees, the town and hills of Phillip Island beyond

“Cleaned up so the garden was left perfect.”

Conny Lenneberg · Google review

Recent work

Gardens around the island.

Hedging, mulching and mowing at homes from Cowes through to Smiths Beach.

A large squared off clipped hedge and a tall pittosporum column beside a rendered house
A wide lawn showing clean mower stripes, backed by a paling fence and mature shrubs under blue sky
A row of neatly ball clipped native shrubs in a fresh red mulch bed beside a gravel drive, with wattle in flower behind

Who turns up

Run by Jake Bould,
worked by a small local crew.

Jake quotes the job himself, so the person who tells you what it will take is the person responsible for it getting done. From there it is Kye, Nathan and Ben on the tools. Same faces, every visit, which matters when someone is coming through your gate while you are not home.

New hands are trained on the job before they are let loose on a customer's garden. That is the whole reason the reviews read the way they do: it is not one good gardener, it is a standard everyone works to.

“Our mission is to provide quality lawn & garden services at an affordable price.”
Cowes Family Mowing & Maintenance
Rated
5.0 / 5

118 Google reviews

On the tools
Jake, Kye,

Nathan and Ben

Based
Cowes

Phillip Island, Victoria

A large ornamental grass and mulched garden bed against a stone and timber modern house in late afternoon sun

Holiday houses

Plenty of the island sits empty most of the year.

If your place is only used at weekends and over summer, a scheduled visit keeps it from getting away on you, and you arrive to a lawn that is already done.

Set up a regular visit

What people say

A hundred and eighteen reviews, not one below five.

5.0

on Google

May 2026

Legends! Being a person that takes great pride in my lawn, asking for someone else to do it due to a back injury was hard. Jake was prompt in giving me a reasonable quote and Kye executed perfectly 2 days later. Amazing service all round! Will be using these legends again regularly.

Jono O'Brien

August 2026

Nathan and Ben did an amazing job. They spent 5 hours in the rain transforming our front garden. Would highly recommend this local business.

Susan Payne

July 2026

Jake and his team did a fantastic job of plant removal, fruit tree pruning and weed removal plus lawn mowing. Really nice people to interact with and I recommend the high standards they use to complete and tidy the site. Well done guys.

Graham Fisher

May 2026

Really delighted with the professionalism of Jake and his team, Nathan and Ben. They did a great job, friendly, very efficient, cleaned up so the garden was left perfect. Thank you! We will definitely highly recommend them!

Conny Lenneberg

July 2026

Jake did an amazing job of our property. Quick, efficient and very professional. We can't thank him enough and would recommend his services

Tish Mio

Where we work

Across Phillip Island.

We are a mobile business, so we come to you. If your street is on the island and it is not on this list, ring and ask anyway.

Cowes
Ventnor
Rhyll
Silverleaves
Sunset Strip
Smiths Beach
Surf Beach
Sunderland Bay
Wimbledon Heights

Off the island, or not sure?

One phone call sorts it out. If it is a job we cannot get to, we will tell you straight away rather than leave you waiting.

Call 0437 287 065

Get in touch

Tell us about the place.

Hours

Monday to Friday, 7am-5pm

Saturday, 7am-3pm

Sunday, closed

Serving
Phillip Island, Victoria
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