Hi! I'm Steve from Steve's Budget Care Nursery and Landscaping.

My introduction to landscaping came in fifth class primary school. My teacher, by the name of Mr Peter Langyon from Horsley Park Primary, gave me the project of laying a brick on edge bordered garden around a portable classroom at the school. I continued my gardening career by growing the vegetables for my family and making play areas for my younger brothers, from here gardening became my hobby and eventually my career.

In 1989 after completing the Landscaping around my own house, a friend of mine came over and was impressed enough to ask me to construct a small garden for him. From here he recommended me to a few of his friends and my business took off.

In the first couple of years of my Landscaping career I used the same materials as most other Landscape gardeners and home gardeners, but I wanted to be different! I spent much time thinking of something that would be an original product, "The Slate Block". The Slate Block was a hit and it was not uncommon to do several jobs on the one street.

Its now been nine years since the Slate Block was developed and its popularity is still as high. But we have now developed some new, and, just as popular blocks.
INTRODUCING:

• The Staka Slate Block
• The Cottage Garden Block
• The Bush Rock Block
• The Crazy Pave Slate Block
• The Sandstone Block
• and even imitation Bush Rocks and Flagging Stones.

(Please note: The purpose of the imitation Bush Rock is "two fold", it not only is a new product in our range, it has been developed to protect our bush land. The excessive removal of bush rock from our bushland results in loss of habitat for our small animals and also is a contributing factor to the erosion of our bushland, and if our new imitation "Bush Rock" can help in some way then we have achieved our goal).

So from the construction of gardens and the development of new products I started growing our own plants for our own jobs in 2000. I soon had grown more plants than I could use, so I put up a sign saying "Cheap Plants Here", in front of my farm. Every weekend my mother would sit under an umbrella watering the plants with a hose and the demand for stock just became bigger and bigger until mum said "Son there are too many plants to water by hand". So I bought her a portable impact sprinkler.

Now we have the largest whole sale nursery to the public in Sydney, with a huge range of plants, blocks, statues, waterfalls, ponds, and landscaping supplies. Five acres dedicated to your gardening needs. None of this could have been achieved without the wonderful support of our customers, my wife Julie, my mother and the fantastic staff who keep all these facilities running.

"SEE YOU SOON AND GRAB YOURSELF A BARGAIN!"
Steve Vassallo