Annangrove House
Annangrove · two hectares
Pools and landscaping, built with the house.
An extra stage added to a Birch build or renovation — pools, terracing, driveways and planting, by the same team, on the same contract and while the site is still open.
The service
The outside is not a second job.
On most builds the house is one contract and the garden is another, signed months later with a different company. That is where the arguments start: a pool that has to meet the house at a particular level, a retaining wall that has to be there before the slab, a driveway that has to survive a concrete truck.
- Who it suits
- People building or rebuilding who want the finished result to include the ground it sits on, rather than a house and a lawn full of construction traffic.
- Pools
- Including pools that connect into the house and its levels — the kind of detail that is difficult to coordinate across two contracts.
- Levels and retaining
- Terracing, retaining and cut-and-fill on sloping and acreage sites, set out before the slab rather than worked around afterwards.
- Hard landscaping
- Driveways, paths, paving, fencing and gates.
- Soft landscaping
- Turf, garden beds and planting, put in once the heavy traffic is off the site.
- Contract
- Inside the same lump sum as the house, on the same program, with one person accountable for how the two meet.
Why sequence matters
Half of a garden is decided before the slab goes down.
Retaining walls, pool shells, service runs and levels all want to happen while there is still machine access to the back of the block. Once the house is up and the fences are on, the same work needs smaller equipment, more hands and more time — and sometimes it cannot be done at all without lifting something over the roof.
That is the practical argument for one contract rather than two. It is not about convenience. It is that the best time to build the outside is while the site is still a site, and only the builder holding the program can schedule it there.
The visible half — turf, beds, planting — goes in last, once the heavy traffic has finished, so it is not driven over twice.
Built and finished
Grounds we have completed.
Annangrove is two hectares with a pool, cabana and terraced lawn. Aristida has a pool and pool house on acreage at Cattai. The Ryde duplex fits a pool and alfresco onto a 385 m² site.
Where
Pools and landscaping across Sydney.
Acreage terracing in the Hills and the Hawkesbury, and pools fitted onto suburban lots through Ryde and the inner west.
The Hills District
Annangrove, Bella Vista, North Kellyville and the acreage belt north-west of Sydney.
View →Ryde & East Ryde
Suburban lots, duplex sites and knockdown rebuilds across the City of Ryde.
View →Hawkesbury
Cattai, Pitt Town and the rural-residential blocks along the river.
View →Inner West
Tight sites, established streets and houses that have already been added to twice.
View →Common questions
About the outside.
Pools and landscaping
Can I get just the pool or landscaping done?
No. Pools and landscaping are only taken on as part of a Birch build or renovation — they are an extra stage of the same job, not a separate service. That is where all the value in doing them together comes from.
When in the build does the pool go in?
The parts that need machine access — shell, retaining, service runs, levels — happen early, while the site is still open. Coping, fencing, paving and planting come at the end, after the heavy traffic has finished.
Is the pool inside the same contract as the house?
Yes, if you want it to be. That is the point of it: one lump sum, one program, and one person accountable for how the house and the ground around it meet.
Do you do the driveway and fencing as well?
Yes — driveways, paths, paving, fencing and gates, along with turf and planting. It is the last five per cent that decides whether a finished house looks finished.
Start a conversation
Send an address and a rough brief.
The garden can be in the same number.
No obligation, and no second contract signed six months later with a company you have never met.