With their "hot lips pink" paint job and homemade lettering on the side, Two Teens and a Trailer work vehicles stand out wherever they are.
Started literally as two teens with a trailer, the business has now grown from its very humble beginnings to employ about a dozen young people throughout Canberra.
Rohan Martin, one of the original "two teens", was 16 and still in high school when he started his landscaping business alongside his then 14-year-old brother Kiran. Their dad had stumbled across a Facebook post asking for some green waste to be taken away.
"We had a trailer, and me and my brother, we just went out and did that," Mr Martin said.
After a short while, word began to spread and more requests for work came their way. Mr Martin was still on his L-plates at the time, and so their dad rode along in the passenger seat to jobs.
Mr Martin said the pay from landscaping was a lot better than the hospitality wages he was earning throughout high school.
"I think I was earning like 13 bucks an hour working in hospitality at the time."
At the end of year 12, Mr Martin quit his job to focus on landscaping full-time. Younger brother Kiran left the business while still in high school, as it did not work with his schedule.
Mr Martin began to post ads on community notice boards whenever he could and workers started wearing pink shirts to stand out.
Their distinctive hot-pink trucks, entirely painted by the staff to give their branding an authentic feel, are near impossible to miss, which Mr Martin says helps brings in business.
And despite their age, Mr Martin said the crews working for the company were all properly trained for their work that encompasses anything from lawn mowing to tree removal.
"The aim is to try and provide employment to teenagers, and have a better paying job and a nicer experience," Mr Martin said.
While the company is growing and hiring, Mr Martin said he had no dreams of following the path of the great Australian landscaping success story, Jim's Mowing.
While they sometimes work with Jim's Mowing franchisees by picking up some surplus work, he wants to keep the business in his own hands.
"You're putting your name on the line, but then you've got almost no control over it," Mr Martin said.
