Websites for Adelaide landscape builders, garden designers and maintenance rounds, made by a web design team on Hutt St in the city. Your CBS licence details beside the paving and walls that need them, gardens grouped from the beachside suburbs to the Hills, and a quote form that collects photos, block size, slope and side access.
Before an Adelaide homeowner rings about a new garden, they're weighing up three things: whether you can legally build the hard parts, whether you've worked on ground like theirs, and whether the big gum out the back or a wall on the boundary will hold the job up. A site that deals with all three before the form saves you a lot of explaining on the phone.
Consumer and Business Services has warned that people doing landscaping work such as paving, retaining walls and shade sails need a CBS licence. If you hold a building work contractor's licence, we show the licensed name and number on every page as text, so a client can match it against the CBS public register. If you only plant, mulch and mow, your services page says so in plain words, and nobody books you expecting a wall.
Green Adelaide notes that sand, salt spray and wind can be felt up to about 5 km from the coast. Further inland, the University of Adelaide describes South Australia's soils as highly reactive, shrinking and swelling as they dry and wet, and the Hills bring slopes. Captioning each garden with the suburb, the conditions and the main materials (a caption such as "limestone walls and coastal natives, Aldinga Beach") shows a visitor work on a block like theirs.
New houses across metropolitan Adelaide come with soft landscaping and tree requirements under the Planning and Design Code. If you design or plant gardens that meet them, a page pairing a planting plan with photos of the finished front yard speaks to owners finishing a build, and to builders who pass the landscaping on to you.
Since May 2024, a single-trunk tree in metropolitan Adelaide can be regulated once its trunk reaches one metre around, measured a metre above the ground, half the previous measurement. If you check a tree's status before pricing paving or excavation nearby, or work with an arborist who writes the reports, a line on your process page shows owners you know the rules before they've had to ask.
The CFS suggests preparing a 20-metre space around a home and keeping mown lawn, wide paths or vegetable gardens closest to the house. If you lay out gardens in the Adelaide Hills with that in mind, a separate page describing how you treat the zone around the house gives owners in Stirling, Aldgate or Mount Barker a reason to pick you.
Suburb, block size, slope, side access width, whether the job includes a retaining wall or fill near a boundary, and whether a large tree stands near the work, with uploads for photos, plans or an engineer's drawing. Those answers tell you whether approvals or a neighbour notice are likely before you've driven out to measure.
A Master Landscapers South Australia Award of Excellence, or a garden that opened during the SA Landscape Festival, means more when it sits on the project with the year and the category. We put it there and link to the published results where they exist, instead of lining up logos in the footer.
Licensing in brief. South Australia's licensing of building work contractors, the supervisor registration behind it and what advertising has to show are covered on our page for Adelaide builders. For landscapers, two points stand out. The Legal Services Commission's Law Handbook notes that domestic building work includes types of work prescribed by regulation, such as paving and fencing as well as swimming pools, and CBS has publicly warned that paving, retaining walls and shade sails need a licence. Since 10 November 2025, domestic building work worth less than twenty thousand dollars is classed as minor domestic building work, which isn't regulated to the same level as larger contracts.
Retaining walls and the neighbours. According to the Law Handbook's retaining walls page, a wall built for landscaping that retains a difference in ground level of one metre or less doesn't usually need development approval, although some zones and council areas differ. Tiered walls are measured together by the overall change in level, and a fence on top brings approval into play once wall and fence pass 2.1 metres from the low side. Separately, fill within 600 millimetres of a boundary (unless it's landscaping fill of 200 millimetres or less) and excavation that cuts below a line set by the regulations near a boundary are treated as affecting the stability of the neighbour's land. That can bring a duty to serve the neighbour a Form 1 notice at least 20 working days before work starts. A landscaper who handles that paperwork, or works with an engineer who does, has something concrete to say on a retaining walls page.
Trees. The Planning and Design Code's Regulated and Significant Tree Overlay covers metropolitan Adelaide, townships in the Adelaide Hills Council and parts of the Mount Barker Council. Since 16 May 2024 a single-trunk tree is regulated at a circumference of one metre and significant at two metres, both measured a metre above natural ground, and any tree-damaging activity, which takes in substantial damage to the roots, needs development approval. The City of Burnside's trees and development FAQs list cut and fill and sealing with impermeable surfaces among the activities not allowed inside a tree protection zone. Exemptions include trees within three metres of a house or in-ground pool on the same block (not Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora or Willow Myrtle) and trees within 20 metres of a house in a medium or high bushfire risk area. A paving or wall job under a large tree is where this comes up.
Gardens on new infill homes. Since the Planning and Design Code began in March 2021, new homes in metropolitan Adelaide have had to include soft landscaping and, where the Urban Tree Canopy Overlay applies, at least one tree. The City of West Torrens' 2021 summary of the Code sets the soft landscaping at a minimum width of 700 millimetres over 10 per cent of a site under 150 square metres, rising in steps to 25 per cent of a site over 450, plus at least 30 per cent of the land between the street boundary and the front of the house. Larger blocks call for more or bigger trees, and a payment into the state's Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Fund can stand in for planting. PlanSA lists a Tree Protection and Planting Code Amendment, so check the current Code before your site quotes any figure. In 2022 Green Adelaide and the State Planning Commission published the Adelaide Garden Guide for New Homes, with small garden designs that fit those rules. If you plant to them, say so, and show the plan next to the finished garden; the wording comes from you, and we don't claim compliance on your behalf.
Where Adelaide landscapers get seen, and how we work. Master Landscapers South Australia, the industry body for landscaping in Adelaide and regional SA, runs the Awards of Excellence, with award galleries on its site for each year from 2022, and keeps a Find a Professional directory for landscapers, garden maintenance, landscape designers and suppliers. With Open Gardens SA it runs the SA Landscape Festival, first held in April 2021, when professionally designed private gardens open to visitors; the 2025 festival included gardens at Belair, Blackwood, Aldinga Beach and Torrens Park. We're at Ste 3/110 Hutt St in the city. Most projects run by phone and email, which suits people who spend the day on site, and if you'd rather meet before we start, that can be arranged.
We haven't built for an Adelaide landscaper yet. Two of our Adelaide clients sit close to the trade: a structural engineering practice whose work includes retaining walls, and a renovation builder covering the city, the Hills and the Fleurieu. Our structural landscaping client is in New South Wales.
Adelaide structural engineers designing retaining walls, concrete slabs and stormwater systems for homeowners and builders. The site has four service pages, 16 articles and a quote form that shows fee ranges and accepts file uploads, the same kind of form a landscaper can use to receive site photos, a survey or a designer's plan.
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A licensed South Australian builder working across Adelaide, the Adelaide Hills and the Fleurieu. Its 30-page site includes a project gallery, seven service-area pages and a seven-step quote form, a structure that suits a landscaper who wants coastal, suburban and Hills work shown separately.
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Bobcat and excavator work, structural landscaping and licensed pool building around South Pambula in the Bega Valley. The one-page site has a 42-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, three service sections, a testimonial carousel and a contact form.
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Your CBS licence details, construction and garden care listed separately, a gallery sorted by job type, the suburbs you cover and a quote form that takes photos. Enough for a maintenance round or a two-person crew.
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A home page, a projects page grouping gardens by coast, suburbs and Hills, and a page on how a job runs, from the site visit through regulated trees, wall approvals and neighbour notice to handover.
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Separate pages for paving, retaining walls, new-home front gardens, planting and irrigation, and maintenance, plus projects, a Hills page and a quote page that accepts plans. For businesses running more than one crew.
Planting, mulching and mowing aren't among the landscaping work CBS names as needing a licence; paving, retaining walls and shade sails are. If you hold a building work contractor's licence, we show the name and number on every page; if you don't, we word your services so nobody expects you to take on building work. CBS can confirm anything borderline.
If trees often stand near your work, a sentence helps. Say that you check whether a tree is regulated or significant before quoting paving, walls or digging nearby, and who arranges an arborist report or development application when one is needed. The thresholds dropped in May 2024, so older advice online may still quote the previous figures.
Keep it to what you actually do. You might say that walls retaining more than a metre, tiered walls adding up to more than a metre, and walls where a fence takes the total past 2.1 metres generally need development approval, and that you serve the Form 1 notice when work near a boundary calls for it. Councils and zones vary, so we point readers to PlanSA or their council rather than promising an outcome.
With a project or two that pairs the planting plan with photos of the finished front yard, and a line saying you plant to the Planning and Design Code's soft landscaping and tree requirements, if that's part of your service. If new-home gardens are regular work, they deserve a page of their own, separate from makeovers of established gardens.
If you want more of it, yes. A Hills page can show sloping-block projects around towns such as Stirling, Aldgate or Mount Barker, describe how you lay out the area near a house with the CFS's 20-metre space in mind, and explain how you handle trees on bushfire-prone blocks. It also gives someone searching for a Hills landscaper a page that matches what they typed.
Either works. We're a web design team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide. Most projects run by phone and email, which suits landscapers who are on site all day, but a meeting can be arranged. You send photos of finished gardens, your licence details and the suburbs you want more work in; we build the draft, you ask for changes, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us photos of finished gardens, your licence details if you hold one and the parts of Adelaide you want more work in. We'll build a draft you can check on your phone between jobs, and you pay only once you approve it.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au