Websites for landscapers and gardeners across Greater Bunbury, from Australind and Eaton to Dalyellup and Gelorup. Each finished garden gets its own photos and suburb, irrigation pages name the right water supplier, and the quote form takes pictures of the yard and a note on any trees worth keeping.
Greater Bunbury spreads over four councils and more than one water supplier, and much of it sits in coastal peppermint country. A site that gets those details right reads as local before anyone has picked up the phone.
Aqwest supplies drinking water to Bunbury, Picton and parts of Dalyellup, and tells Dalyellup households to check their bill to see whether they're its customers. Its roster allows sprinklers two days a week, before 9am or after 6pm. Outside Aqwest's supply the provider changes, so your retic page should send clients to the supplier named on their own water bill, with links to Aqwest and Water Corporation.
Under the state's garden bore rules, the South West sits apart from Perth: from 1 September to 31 May bore users here can water on any day, once a day, before 9am or after 6pm, and Aqwest says its two-day roster doesn't apply to bores, though the daytime limit does. If you install or service retic, say you program each controller for the source it runs on, so a bore client isn't left on a scheme-water schedule.
Sprinklers on scheme and bore water are off from 1 June to 31 August, and Aqwest's exemption for new lawns and gardens runs up to 42 days for spring and summer planting and up to 35 days in autumn and winter. A short page on when you lay turf and plant, and who applies for the exemption, answers the question of whether a winter job is worth doing.
Western ringtail possums, listed nationally as critically endangered, feed mainly on peppermint leaves in coastal areas, and the South West Catchments Council has described them as extremely common in Bunbury backyards. If you plant WA peppermints, design around established ones or link canopies along a fence line, show it on the project with a sentence on why. It tells an owner you're planting for local conditions, not from a catalogue.
WA's Building Regulations exempt a retaining wall from a building permit only if it holds back 500 mm or less and isn't tied to other building work or to protecting the land next door, and the Shire of Capel, which takes in Dalyellup and Gelorup, says walls along boundaries need a permit whatever their height. A walls page that says you check the council's requirements before quoting avoids an awkward redesign.
Fields for the suburb, the water supplier or a bore, any peppermints or other established trees to keep, whether the block slopes towards a boundary, and photo uploads. You'll know before the site visit whether the job means planting, walls, retic or all three.
The state rules in brief. Bunbury landscapers work under the same WA building rules as those in Perth: a registered building contractor for permit work worth $20,000 or more, a building permit for most retaining walls over 0.5 m, and council inspections of pool barriers at least every four years. Our page for Perth landscapers sets those out, along with Water Corporation's Waterwise endorsements for landscapers and irrigators, so this section is about the South West.
Two suppliers, two sets of watering rules. Aqwest, the Bunbury Water Corporation, describes its operating area as running from Myalup and Harvey in the north to Capel in the south, but it currently supplies drinking water to Bunbury, Picton and parts of Dalyellup. Its roster gives scheme customers two watering days a week before 9am and after 6pm, its winter switch-off applies to scheme and bore users alike from 1 June to 31 August, and watering a new lawn more often without an exemption counts as a breach. The state's garden bore rules put the South West in a different group from Perth and Mandurah, where bores keep to two rostered days; here they can be used on any day outside the switch-off, once a day and outside 9am to 6pm. An irrigation page that gives Bunbury's rules, instead of repeating Perth's, shows you work here.
Peppermint country. The western ringtail possum is listed as critically endangered under the national EPBC Act. A 2014 habitat assessment for the Department of Parks and Wildlife, covering the southern Swan Coastal Plain from Binningup to Dunsborough, found that much of the occupied coastal habitat is a fragmented vegetation type with dense stands of peppermint (Agonis flexuosa), a preferred food that also gives shade and shelter from predators, and that it coincides with an area of rapid urban development. In 2019 the South West Catchments Council described the possums as extremely common in Bunbury backyards and ran planting days to join up tree canopies in reserves, so they don't have to come down to the ground. For a landscaper, peppermints are a planting choice with local meaning and existing trees can be worth designing around. In WA, clearing native vegetation needs a state permit unless an exemption applies, and federal rules can apply as well, so if a client asks about clearing, point them to the regulators rather than answering it on your site.
Four councils, different paperwork. The Greater Bunbury Region Scheme takes in the City of Bunbury and the shires of Harvey, Dardanup and Capel, so one week's jobs can cross several council lines. The building teams apply the same state regulations but publish their own guidance. The Shire of Capel's retaining wall sheet says walls along boundaries need a building permit regardless of height, and its pool page says the four-year barrier inspection cycle starts from the date a new pool fence is found compliant. Firebreak notices differ from council to council as well. A service-area section that groups towns by council, such as Australind (Harvey), Eaton (Dardanup) and Dalyellup (Capel), lets you link each group to the right council's rules.
Working with us. We're an Adelaide team, and South West businesses work with us by phone and email. Bunbury runs on Perth time, so we're 90 minutes ahead of you, or two and a half hours during South Australian daylight saving, and most of the working day still overlaps. We haven't built for a WA client yet, so the sites below are from New South Wales and South Australia.
No Bunbury landscaper in our portfolio yet. These two show the parts a Bunbury site would use: a New South Wales earthmoving business that does structural landscaping, and an Adelaide builder with a page for each part of its service area.
Bobcat and excavator operators on the far south coast of New South Wales whose work includes structural landscaping and pool building. Their one-page site puts three service sections beside a 42-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, the kind of evidence a Bunbury crew has in finished walls, paving and pool surrounds.
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A licensed Adelaide renovation builder. Its 30-page site has seven service pages, seven pages for different parts of its patch, a project gallery and a seven-step quote form. A smaller version of that layout would give Bunbury, Australind, Eaton and Dalyellup a page each.
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Your services, a gallery, the towns you cover across the four councils, a note on water suppliers and a quote form with photo upload, all on one page.
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A home page, a projects page with the suburb and planting notes on each garden, and an irrigation and planting page covering Aqwest, bores and the winter switch-off.
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A home page, then design and construction, retic, maintenance and planting on a page each, a service-area page grouping the towns by council, plus projects and a quote page.
The client's supplier's. Aqwest covers Bunbury, Picton and parts of Dalyellup; elsewhere it's the supplier on the household's water bill. We'd state the basics (two days a week on scheme water, the switch-off from 1 June to 31 August, different rules for bores) and link to each supplier for the detail, since they set and change the rules.
Show what you do: peppermints in your planting plans, established trees kept in a design, canopy links along a boundary. If someone wants trees taken out, say you'll point them to the approvals that may apply rather than giving advice on the page. The possums that rely on peppermint are critically endangered, and clearing rules are for the regulators to explain.
A line is enough: that you check the council's requirements before quoting, because they differ. The Shire of Capel, for example, wants a building permit for any retaining wall along a boundary, whatever its height. We wouldn't list every council's rules; a link to each building team keeps the page accurate.
Yes. We can build booking and payment into your site, quoted with the rest of the job, or link a Book button to a scheduling tool you already use, such as Calendly. If you'd rather screen enquiries first, a quote form with a preferred-time field does that.
By phone and email. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) web design team with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send photos, your services and the towns you cover, we build a draft you can check on your phone, and you ask for changes until it's right. Nothing is paid until you approve it, and we reply within 24 hours.
Send us photos of a few finished gardens, the towns you want work in from Australind to Gelorup, and a note on the irrigation and planting work you do. We'll send a quote, and you see the finished draft before you pay a cent.
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