Maintenance and establishment

Not granted to properties with a licensed bore — those are handled by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation. Random inspections apply and breaching the conditions risks a $500 fine. Figures checked 2 August 2026; the periods are reviewed between seasons, so read the page on the day you apply rather than trusting this summary.

These are nominal rates for a well-designed system at correct pressure. Your own catch-cup test beats the table every time, and a station with poor uniformity will not deliver the stated depth anywhere except the average.

Hand watering means hand-held. A hose left running on a tree, a sprinkler on the end of a hose, or a timer on a tap is irrigation, and it is bound by the roster and the Sprinkler Switch-off.

North American university extension material. The diagnostic method is universal; the pest and disease examples are not. Use it for the reasoning and take actual identifications to the WA sources in [WA pests and diseases](/curriculum/maintenance/wa-pests-and-diseases/). Ignore anything about cold damage or freeze injury.

Checked 2 August 2026. Round 1 opened 28 July 2025 and the live counter on the page showed roughly 90% of the fund claimed as at 27 July 2026, with a banner reading Round 2 Coming Soon. Check the counter before you rely on it, and keep the receipt regardless — a receipt you kept is claimable later, a receipt you binned is not.

The month ranges are an approximation the Bureau publishes for convenience. Read the indicators, not the calendar — in a late year Djeran runs into June and Makuru starts late, and your garden will tell you before the date does.

Written for a marine and fishing audience, so the food and harvesting detail is coastal. The seasonal cues themselves are the part you want.

The percentages assume a base run time already set correctly for your sprinkler type and a garden on Perth sand. Set the base first from the run-time figures, then apply the seasonal percentage on top.

Breaching the conditions of an exemption carries a fine of up to $500, and the liability sits with the property owner, not the contractor who installed the lawn or the retic.

Written for local government turf managers, so the rates are per hectare and the leaf tissue targets are for sports fields. Take the timing rule and the phosphorus caution; ignore the hectare arithmetic and use the label rate on a domestic product.

The definition of waterwise differs by region within WA, and the directory covers the whole state. Filter by your suburb rather than browsing the full list.

The 10 to 20 mm mowing height suits couch and kikuyu. Buffalo varieties, which are very common on Perth blocks, are mown higher — check the height for your specific variety before you scalp it.

DFES sets the standards; your local government sets the dates. The annual firebreak and fuel load notice, the restricted and prohibited burning periods and any harvest bans are issued by your council and vary across the metropolitan area — confirm your own dates with your local government each year.

The page does not specify how many cups to use. Eight is a workable minimum on a suburban lawn station and twelve to sixteen is better; the professional audit minimum is twenty-four.

These are bands for a correctly spaced, correctly pressured station, and the 10 mm per watering day target is a Perth default for sandy soil on a two-day roster. Your measured precipitation rate is always the better number.

Rain Bird's global product page, not a WA one, and models sold here vary. Hunter and Holman units common in Perth use the same non-volatile memory approach, but older controllers genuinely do lose the programme without a 9V battery. Read your own controller's manual before assuming either way.

Imperial units throughout: cans are spaced 5 to 8 feet (1.5 to 2.4 m) apart, the wind limit is 5 mph (about 8 km/h), and volumes are converted to inches. Convert to millimetres and measure the cans with a steel rule instead. The 24-can minimum is a professional standard designed for large zones; on a small Perth lawn station, twelve to sixteen is the practical version.

Checked on 2 August 2026, this offer is CLOSED. The last published round ran from 1 September 2025 to 31 May 2026 for Perth and Peel Water Corporation account holders with a system that has watered in the last two years, and applications had to be lodged within 30 days of the service. Rounds have opened around 1 September in recent years and allocations can run out early, so check this page before you book spring work.

Endorsement means the business has been appointed to deliver the programs, not that it is the cheapest or the most skilled designer. Filter by suburb and search radius; the site also carries Victorian content, so check you are looking at WA listings.

The brochure points you to www.fertilisewise.org.au for its soil-type map. That domain no longer resolves as of 2 August 2026, so use the soil identification in Phase 3 of this course instead. The advice itself is lawn-led; garden beds get less coverage.

Read the regulations dated on and after 1 January 2013 (regulations 8, 10, 11 and 12). Regulations 7 and 9 are the superseded pre-2013 caps and carried an exemption for controlled release and processed organic fertiliser that the current caps do not.

Rates are given in kilograms per hectare for sports fields and parks. The testing methods, the decision table and the timing rules transfer straight to a suburban block; the rates do not — convert or ignore them.

The advice sits on the individual plant pages, not the index — click through to the species you actually own. Coverage is limited to the species Kings Park grows, so it will not have every grevillea cultivar in a Perth nursery.

Written from a nursery and potting-mix perspective, so rates are per cubic metre of mix rather than per square metre of garden. Use it as a sensitivity ranking, not as a garden dose rate.

A peer-reviewed physiology paper, not a gardening guide. Read the introduction and discussion for the reasoning and skip the transporter-gene detail unless you want it.

The every-two-months default is a general lawn schedule. If you are on deep grey Bassendean sand or anywhere near a wetland or the river, the Fertilise Wise spring-and-autumn-only calendar is the safer starting point.

Dates change each season and sessions fill. Confirm on the page before you plan around one.

No intake dates or venue are published on the page — SERCUL asks you to contact them to book a place. If you only want the knowledge and not the certificate, the free Fertilise Wise brochure and the Nutrient BMP Recommendations above cover most of the same ground at no cost.

The page was last updated 12 November 2025 and the response is actively changing — the national programme has moved from eradication to Transition to Management and a new Quarantine Area Notice is in force. Re-read it before a big pruning job rather than relying on what you remember.

DPIRD says the list is updated frequently and that many WA species remain of unknown susceptibility — absence from the list is not proof a tree is safe. Check you have the current version number before relying on it.

The stated distances are typical, not universal — Western Power says clearance zones vary with conductor type, fire risk and span length. Ring 13 10 87 for your specific street before working near a line.

North American publication. The biology is universal, and the sunburn section applies harder here than where it was written — Perth's summer UV and 40 °C days punish newly exposed bark on marri, citrus and maples far faster than a US climate does.

Written for temperate northern-hemisphere street trees, so ignore its seasonal timing entirely and use the Perth table in this lesson instead. The cut geometry and tool advice transfer without change.

Genuinely expensive for one household. You do not need to own it to benefit from it — writing "all pruning to AS 4373-2007" into your contractor's scope does the work, and the free ISA brochures above cover the same cut geometry. Buy it only if you are pruning a lot of trees or arguing with a contractor about what you were sold.

These are consultants — people who assess trees and write reports. For climbing and pruning work you want an AQF Level 3 climbing arborist, which is a different and much larger group; ask the consultant who they would send, or use their listing as a benchmark for the credentials to demand.

This is model guidance, not law in itself. WA has adopted the model work health and safety framework, so it reflects what a WA contractor should be doing; a homeowner working on their own garden is not bound by it, but every hazard it names is still a hazard in your garden.

General legal information, not advice on your situation. For the fate of the cuttings themselves — they belong to the tree's owner — see the Citizens Advice Bureau WA page cited in this lesson's sources.

Dated December 2020, and its watering-restrictions paragraph gives Winter Sprinkler Switch-off dates that do not match the current rule. Take the dates from Water Corporation's own page — 1 June to 31 August — and use this document for the horticulture only.

Written by a Perth catchment group whose brief is river health, so it is deliberately conservative — it is protecting the Canning and the Swan, not chasing a golf-green finish. That happens to be the right bias on deep sand, but if your lawn is genuinely starving, the Water Corporation schedule of a light feed every two months through the warm months is the other defensible position.

Written for turf managers running ovals and parks, so the rates are quoted per hectare and the monitoring regime is well beyond a suburban lawn. Divide by 10,000 to get grams per square metre.

It is an industry marketing body, so every variety is described favourably. Read the sun-hours and invasiveness entries, which are factual, and discount the adjectives. It does not rate thatch for every variety — only couch and Queensland Blue carry a scarifying interval.

South Carolina, in inches. Ignore its height table — it is set for a humid subtropical climate and reads far higher than WA practice. Use the technique (one-third rule, raise under stress, sharp blade, return clippings) and take your actual heights from the TGAWA and Water Corporation figures.

Imperial units, and its 'late spring and summer' window is for the northern hemisphere. In Perth that means September through November, before the heat arrives — which is also what Water Corporation recommends.

The extra water is charged to your account and counts against your billing-year usage, so it can push you into a higher tier. Normal roster rules snap back the day it expires, and you have to reprogram the controller yourself.

Reports go to a queue, so this is not a same-day service. Photograph the insect itself as well as the damage — damage alone is rarely diagnostic. The page does not publish a turnaround time; if the problem is a suspected polyphagous shot-hole borer, phone PaDIS on (08) 9368 3080 as well as reporting through the app.

The page was last updated 12 November 2025 and the response is actively changing. Confirm the current zone boundaries and movement conditions on this page before you prune, chip or dispose of anything from a host tree — the rules that applied last year are not necessarily the rules today.

The page is an identification and biosecurity resource, not a treatment guide. It does not recommend specific baits or products for domestic use.

This is the genuine DPIRD factsheet from October 2017, re-hosted by the City of Cockburn — DPIRD's own biosecurity factsheet library no longer carries a Portuguese millipede sheet, so the council copy is the accessible version. The advice is still current, but treat the 2017 date as a reason to phone PaDIS if your situation is unusual.

Written by an agricultural research organisation for broadacre and pasture growers, so the thresholds (around five beetles per square metre) and the seed-treatment control options are not lawn advice. Take the biology and the damage description and ignore the crop chemistry.

Aimed at cereal and pasture growers, so the per-square-metre thresholds are yield thresholds for crops, not lawn thresholds. Lawn armyworm in Perth is usually a different Spodoptera species to the cereal armyworms described here, but the collar stripes, the night feeding and the Bt control all transfer.

TurfBreed is a turf breeding and licensing business, so read the variety-tolerance section as having a commercial interest. Miticides in those groups are largely professional turf products; check any product you buy against APVMA PubCRIS for home lawn use before applying it.

Written for bushland managers and community groups rather than gardeners, so the mapping, interpretation and access-control sections are beyond a suburban block. The hygiene and materials chapters are the parts that apply to you.

A negative result does not prove the site is clean — it proves the pathogen was not recovered from that sample. DBCA itself recommends engaging a registered Phytophthora Dieback Interpreter rather than relying on sampling alone. Fees are published in a separate schedule and change each financial year, so confirm the current price before you post anything.

Delivered in person by registered trainers, not online, and commercial rates vary by trainer. This is aimed at contractors and land managers rather than home gardeners.

National, not WA-specific, and it tells you what is registered rather than what is wise. Registration is not a recommendation, and a product being legal to use does not make it the least-toxic option available to you.

Written for the City of Stirling's coastal and Swan Coastal Plain suburbs. The species list holds across metropolitan Perth, but it is an identification and awareness guide, not a legal register — cross-check declared status on WAOL.

Published around 2002 and written for bushland restoration, so the herbicide product names, registrations and permit references are out of date — check current registrations on the APVMA and read the label. The weed biology, the timing and the case studies are still the best material available for Perth.

Some named products and permit references date from the mid-2000s. Treat the chemistry and the decision framework as current and verify any specific product registration before use.

Profiles are inconsistent about legal status. The arum lily profile states it is a declared pest under s22(2) of the BAM Act 2007, but other weed profiles omit declared status entirely — so use FloraBase for identification and biology, and WAOL for the legal answer.

The page does not address declared pests, bulbs or material carrying ripe seed. Bag ripe seed heads and fruit separately before they go in the bin, and for a declared pest ask your local government or DPIRD before you move the material at all.

A community advocacy organisation rather than a regulator. Good for identification and timing; confirm any legal status on WAOL and any chemical recommendation against the current product label.

This is a live response and the zone boundaries and conditions change. Read the current Quarantine Area Notice before you move any wood or green waste, not the version you remember from last year.

The 2.7 metres from the boundary line and 0.5 metres from water assets figures on this page are written for street and verge trees planted by local government, not for trees on your own block. Treat them as a sanity check on how close you are planting to a service, not as a private-property rule.

Checked on 2 August 2026: Round 1 opened on 28 July 2025 and Round 2 is listed as coming soon, with the funding counter showing about 90% of current funds used. The rebate is claimed after you buy and plant, so confirm a round is actually open before you spend the money.

This is one council's policy and it binds nobody outside the City of South Perth. Perth local governments vary enormously: some have no private tree controls at all, others run significant tree registers. Read your own council's local planning policy before you book a removal, and get the answer in writing.

IACA lists consulting arborists, who assess and report. That is deliberately not the same trade as the crew who climb and cut. For the physical work you separately want a contractor with a qualified climber, public liability cover and, near powerlines, the right accreditation.

North American. Skip the freeze-thaw material entirely. Substitute compacted crushed limestone for the crushed aggregate base it specifies, since that is the Perth standard, and read its 4 to 6 inch lifts as roughly 100 to 150 mm. Base failure here is almost always poor compaction, an uncompacted service trench, or no base under the sand at all.

The ratings apply to heartwood only — sapwood in the same board has none of that durability. Perth's dry summers are relatively kind to timber above ground, so decks here usually fail at the points that stay damp: bearers in ground contact, the joist under a planter, the edge against a wet lawn. Durability class is also not a termite management plan.

These duties bind a PCBU, meaning a business. A homeowner cutting their own pavers is not caught by them. The dust is identical either way, so wet-cut or use on-tool extraction and wear a properly fitted P2 respirator regardless of who is holding the saw. Page last updated 29 April 2025.