Websites for Brisbane landscape construction crews, garden designers and maintenance rounds: your QBCC licence shown the way the regulator asks, finished yards captioned by suburb and material, and a quote form that collects photos, slope and side access before you drive across town to look.
Brisbane homeowners planning a new backyard usually shortlist landscapers on their phone, and they're checking three things: whether you're allowed to build what they have in mind, whether you've done a yard like theirs, and whether you come to their side of the river. A site that settles those in the first scroll saves them ringing around to find out.
If you hold a QBCC licence, the licensed name, the licence number and a statement that you're licensed under the QBCC Act go on every page as plain text a client can copy into the QBCC's register. If you mow, plant and maintain without a licence but advertise the odd path or low wall, the QBCC wants your ads to say you can't perform building work valued over $3,300. We set that line out as straightforward information, not small print.
Queensland has two landscaping licences with different scopes. A trade licensee can't advertise retaining walls that need engineering certification, while a builder restricted to structural landscaping can, and can also take on irrigation, ponds and playground equipment. Listing only the work your class covers keeps the site honest and saves you quoting jobs you'd have to hand on.
"Terraced sleeper walls and turf on a steep block, The Gap" tells a reader more than a photo titled "Project 14". Each job gets the suburb, the main materials and the problem it solved, and the gallery is sorted into walls and paving, decks and pergolas, planting, and turf, so someone after one kind of job finds it in two swipes.
Suburb, rough area, how steep the block is, how wide the side access is for a bobcat, and whether there are big trees near the work. That last question matters in Brisbane, where mature trees on private land can be protected under council's local law. Photos and any plans or surveys attach to the same form.
If you build or tidy footpath gardens, say you work to Brisbane City Council's verge garden guidelines: low plants, a clear strip for people walking, and no trees. Owners who've read the guidelines will recognise them, and it shows you won't leave them with a garden council could ask them to change.
A Landscape Queensland membership or a Construction Excellence Award reads as proof when it sits on the job that earned it, with the year and the category. We put it there, and link the association's winners page if it lists you, rather than lining up logos in the footer.
Which work needs a QBCC licence. The QBCC requires a licence for building work valued over $3,300, and some work, such as drainage and plumbing, needs one at any value. Design work by landscape gardeners is among the exemptions in Schedule 1A of the QBCC Act. Two licence classes are aimed at landscapers. Structural landscaping (trade) covers carports, decking, fences, gazebos and pergolas, ornamental structures, retaining walls of a height that doesn't need engineering certification under a local law, paving or concrete not meant to carry vehicles, surface and subsoil drainage for landscaping, and tennis and other sporting courts. Builder restricted to structural landscaping takes in retaining walls and structures generally, ponds and water features, irrigation for landscaping, playground equipment and artificial landforms, and asks for four years of experience that includes supervisory or management work, or two years if you hold a qualification in a listed trade such as structural landscaping.
What the QBCC counts as advertising. Its advertising rules name websites, social media pages, online service directories and vehicle signage. Licensees show their licensed name, licence number and a statement that they're licensed under the QBCC Act, legibly and reasonably prominently; a trading name alone will most likely fall short, and the QBCC logo can't appear on your material at all. Unlicensed businesses that advertise building work include a statement of the value they're limited to. Home warranty and deposit rules are covered on our Brisbane builders page.
Council approvals that come up on site. Brisbane City Council says a retaining wall doesn't need building approval when there's no surcharge loading over its zone of influence, the wall and the fill or cut it holds are no more than one metre above natural ground, it's at least 1.5 metres from a building or another retaining wall, and it isn't part of a pool fence. Planning approval can still be triggered by heritage, flood, bushfire or landslide overlays. Vegetation is covered by the Natural Assets Local Law 2003, which protects four categories, including significant urban vegetation (mature or prominent native and exotic trees on private property) and significant native vegetation, down to groundcovers and native grasses. Council says a permit may be needed to clear, manage or work around protected vegetation, and owners can check through a protected vegetation enquiry or council's community maps. Council's verge garden guidelines apply in residential zones and call for plants no taller than 700 millimetres, no trees, and a 1.8 metre strip kept clear for pedestrians.
Fire ants. Red imported fire ants were first found in Brisbane in 2001, at the Port of Brisbane and later that year around Richlands and Wacol, and the eradication effort that began that year is still running. The Queensland Government treats soil as a high-risk carrier: anyone moving material that could carry fire ants must take all reasonable steps not to spread them, and soil needs a biosecurity instrument permit before it moves from a zone 2 property into zone 1 or out of the zones. Soil isn't the only carrier: mulch, compost and potted plants are on the list too, so each load is checked against the National Fire Ant Eradication Program's current rules. A line on your site saying how you handle soil, mulch and turf tells careful clients, and commercial ones, that you know the rules.
Where Brisbane landscapers get seen, and how we work. Landscape Queensland runs the Construction Excellence Awards, with categories across residential and commercial construction, maintenance, design and environmental projects; the 2025 winners were announced at a gala in Brisbane, the 2026 winners are due at a gala in November, and the association keeps a Find a Professional Member directory. Brisbane City Council's rules stop at its boundary, so if you also work in Logan, Ipswich, Redland or Moreton Bay, each of those councils sets its own tree and verge rules. We're an Adelaide team and work with Brisbane landscapers by phone and email. You send photos of finished jobs, your licence details and the suburbs you want more work in; we send a draft link to check between jobs.
We haven't built for a Brisbane landscaper yet. Our Queensland trade client is a licensed plumber and gas fitter, and the structural landscaping site in our portfolio belongs to an excavation business in New South Wales.
A licensed plumber and gas fitter in Queensland. One page sets out six services, a 13-photo gallery of finished work that swipes on a phone, client testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call. A landscaper's gallery of walls, decks and gardens fits the same layout.
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Bobcat and excavator work, structural landscaping and licensed pool building around South Pambula in the Bega Valley. The page splits those into three service sections and leads with a 42-photo gallery of walls, pool surrounds and earthworks, followed by testimonials and a contact form.
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QBCC details, a services list that matches your licence, a sorted gallery, the suburbs you cover and a quote form with photo upload, all on one page. Suits a maintenance round or a two-person crew.
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A home page, a landscape construction page with walls, paving, decks and drainage shown job by job, and a garden care page for regular maintenance and verge gardens, each with its own enquiry form.
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Separate pages for retaining walls, paving and concrete, decks and pergolas, irrigation, planting and turf, and maintenance, plus a projects page and an about page with your licence and Landscape Queensland membership.
It depends on the walls. The structural landscaping trade licence covers retaining walls only up to a height that doesn't need engineering certification under a local law. Walls beyond that sit in the scope of the builder restricted to structural landscaping licence. We list the work your class covers and leave the rest off, and the QBCC's scope pages are the place to confirm anything borderline.
If your ads don't mention building work, the QBCC says no statement is needed. If they do, even for small jobs such as a short path or a low garden wall, an unlicensed business includes a statement that it can't perform building work valued over $3,300. Check the QBCC's advertising page against your own situation and we'll word the site to match.
A sentence is enough. Say that you check whether a tree is protected before quoting work near it, and who applies for any permit. Brisbane's Natural Assets Local Law covers mature and prominent trees on private land, while Logan, Ipswich, Redland and Moreton Bay each have their own rules, so keep the wording general if you work across council lines.
Yes. The quote form can take yard photos, a landscape plan or a survey, along with the suburb, slope and how wide the side access is. Everything arrives in one email, so you can judge whether a job needs a bobcat, an engineer or just a trailer before you call back.
By phone and email. We're a web design team in Adelaide, South Australia, working with businesses Australia-wide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send photos, your licence details and your service areas; we build the draft, you ask for changes, and you pay only after you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your QBCC licence number if you hold one, the suburbs you want more work in and photos of six or eight finished yards. We'll quote first, then build the draft, and you pay nothing until you've approved it.
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