Why landscapers and garden designers need a proper website
Landscaping and garden design are visual trades. Clients choosing between firms almost always start online — comparing portfolios, reading reviews and shortlisting two or three companies before making a single phone call. If your website is slow, dated or buried in a Facebook page, you are losing work to competitors before the conversation even starts.
A dedicated website does three jobs for a landscaping or garden design business: it proves the quality of your work with proper photography, it ranks for the local searches that matter ("garden designer near me", "landscapers in London"), and it makes enquiring effortless for people who are ready to spend.
What a landscaping website should include
A portfolio that sells the transformation
Before-and-after galleries are your strongest sales tool. We structure project pages so each job shows the brief, the work and the finished result — the format homeowners and commercial clients actually want to see.
Clear services and service areas
Garden design, soft landscaping, hard landscaping, maintenance contracts, commercial grounds work — each deserves its own section so Google understands what you offer and visitors find their answer fast.
Trust signals
Accreditations, insurance details, testimonials and named client projects. Landscaping is high-value work; people want reassurance before they invite you to quote.
Enquiry routes that fit how you work
Contact forms, click-to-call and WhatsApp — with enquiries landing in your inbox, not a dashboard you never check.
Fixed-price web design, no surprises
Our fixed-price website packages start at £495 and include mobile-friendly design, basic SEO, a contact form and three months of support. For landscapers who want a deeper portfolio and more pages, the Brochure Site package gives you ten pages and on-page SEO throughout.
Every site we build is responsive — most of your visitors will be homeowners browsing on a phone — and hosted on fast, secure infrastructure with SSL included.
Local SEO built in, not bolted on
We structure pages around the searches that bring landscaping work: "garden design [area]", "landscaping company [town]", "driveway installation near me". Clean page structure, proper headings and fast load times give you the best possible start in local search.
See what we've built
Browse our recent projects to see the standard of work we deliver for small businesses and trades.
How the process works
We start with a short call to understand your services, your service area and the kind of work you want more of — there's a real difference between chasing garden design consultations and year-round maintenance contracts, and the site is structured accordingly. You send us your best project photos and any branding you already have; we handle copywriting, structure and build.
Most landscaping websites are live within one to two weeks. You get a preview link to review everything before launch, one round of revisions included, and we only go live when you're happy.
Content that wins commercial work too
Residential jobs are bread and butter, but commercial contracts — housing associations, schools, office grounds, letting agents — are where the steady revenue is. If that's work you want, we build the pages and proof to support it: capability statements, case studies and the kind of professional presentation that passes a procurement check.
Keeping the site fresh after launch
A portfolio that stops at your last job from two years ago quietly costs you enquiries. Our maintenance plans cover updates, security and adding new project photos as you complete work — your best marketing asset stays current without you touching a thing.
How much does a landscaping website cost?
Our Essential package is £495 — up to three pages, mobile-friendly, SEO basics and a contact form, typically live in about a week. Most landscapers fit the Brochure Site at £1,995: ten pages, a proper portfolio structure, CMS so you can add new projects yourself, and on-page SEO throughout. Larger firms wanting e-commerce or booking integrations go to the Online Store tier. Everything is quoted fixed before we start — no scope creep, no surprise invoices.
Getting found for "landscaper near me"
Local rankings come from consistent signals: a fast site with clean heading structure, service pages named after what people actually search ("garden design", "driveway installation", "fencing", "turfing"), your service areas written into the copy naturally, and a Google Business Profile that agrees with everything your website says. We build all of that in — the technical SEO is part of the build, not an add-on.
Common mistakes on landscaping websites
We see the same problems repeatedly: tiny compressed photos that undersell beautiful work, no mention of where you actually operate, contact details buried three clicks deep, and portfolio pages last updated two seasons ago. Every one of those quietly sends enquiries to competitors. A focused rebuild fixes all of them at once.
What our clients say on Google
“Working with Brad & Real Code Ltd was a great experience. Brad is easy to communicate with and listened to what our idea and vision was. He also gave good design input and ideas and delivered a good website.”
“We've worked with Brad to help design our website and he's been brilliant to work with. He's captured our thoughts and translated them into a website that we're happy with. Highly recommend him and his brilliant service to everyone.”
Rated 5.0 out of 5 across every review on our Google Business profile.
Ready to talk? Tell us about your landscaping or garden design business and we'll come back the same working day with a clear price and an honest recommendation.
