Websites for Mackay landscapers and garden crews, from the northern beaches to Walkerston, Sarina and the Pioneer Valley: your QBCC details where clients can find them, gardens captioned by suburb, and pages that show you know the watering days, council's native plant programs and the weeds the region is trying to get rid of.
Council says almost half of a household's water goes on lawns and gardens, and it limits outdoor watering to set days and hours. Add a council nursery that gives ratepayers free native plants and a list of garden escapes the region wants controlled, and a Mackay landscaper has plenty of local detail to put on a website that a generic template would leave out.
Outdoor watering in the Mackay region is allowed only before 10am and after 4pm: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for even-numbered properties, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday for odd or unnumbered ones, and not at all on Mondays. If you install irrigation, say that you program each controller to the property's days and hours, so the client never has to work it out.
Ratepayers can collect up to four free native plants a year from council's nursery in North Mackay, and the Gardens for Wildlife program adds ten more local natives for gardens that include a canopy tree. A landscaper who designs around those plants, or plants them for a client, can say so. It's an easy, practical reason for an owner to call you.
The Mackay Regional Pest Management Group lists 15 priority weeds, and some of them start out in home gardens: Singapore daisy and mother of millions among them. If you clear and replant overrun beds, name the plants you deal with on a service page so people searching for them find you.
Only council arborists may prune or remove council trees, and removing vegetation on public land is illegal and can be fined. Owners can ask council for a tree on the footpath outside their own home. A line saying your crew works around street trees and leaves the verge to council keeps clients out of trouble and shows you know the rules.
People search by where they live: Bucasia, Eimeo or Shoal Point on the northern beaches, Andergrove and Glenella north of the river, Walkerston and Marian out west, Sarina to the south. List the ones you cover and caption jobs the same way, such as "Native beds and drip line, Blacks Beach".
Council's flood studies were calibrated, where relevant, to Tropical Cyclone Debbie in March 2017, a reminder of what the wet season can do here. If you clear and rebuild gardens after the wet season or a storm, a separate section with before-and-after photos and a quick contact option suits people who need help fast.
Landscapers in Mackay are licensed like any in Queensland: structural landscaping valued over $3,300 needs a QBCC licence, and the QBCC counts your website as advertising, so the licensed name and number go on it. Our Brisbane landscapers page covers the two licence classes. This section is about what's particular to the Mackay region.
Water. Mackay Regional Council supplies drinking water to more than 100,000 customers and limits outdoor watering to before 10am and after 4pm on designated days, by odd or even house number, with watering banned on Mondays; watering cans and buckets can be used outside those hours. Council can apply higher restriction levels under its Water Restrictions Policy if it needs to, and it offers a free online service, myh2o, for owners to track their use and get leak alerts. For an irrigation installer that's two things worth putting on the site: that systems are set to the property's days, and that a leak alert after installation is a reason to call you back.
Council's native plant programs. Under the Free Native Plant Program, ratepayers on residential properties can get up to four free plants a year per rate assessment, ordered ahead and collected on Wednesday mornings from 6 Swayne Street, North Mackay. Gardens for Wildlife gives an extra ten local natives, capped at 500 gardens a year, as long as one canopy tree is included, and participants get a sign for their fence. Land for Wildlife, a voluntary habitat program for private land, urban or rural, can supply 20 plants to eligible properties. A landscaper who knows these programs can help a client make the most of them, and a sentence saying so is the kind of local knowledge a client from Shoal Point or Mount Pleasant notices.
Weeds and the biosecurity obligation. The Mackay Regional Pest Management Group's 15 priority weeds for the Mackay Whitsunday region include parthenium, giant rat's tail grass, sicklepod, rubbervine, bellyache bush, Singapore daisy and mother of millions. Under the Biosecurity Act 2014 everyone has a general biosecurity obligation to take reasonable and practical steps to prevent or minimise a biosecurity risk, and council's pest officers take reports on 1300 622 529. If your crew moves soil, turf or green waste between properties, a short note on how you keep weeds from travelling with it is worth having.
Trees, and where the work is. Council keeps 2.4 metres of clearance above footpaths, leaves trees near powerlines to Ergon, and sends owners of private trees that encroach on council land a letter giving them 28 days to fix it. The council area runs from the northern beaches through the city suburbs to Walkerston, Marian, Mirani, Sarina and up to Eungella, with the Whitsunday and Isaac councils beyond. We're a web design team in Adelaide, and Mackay landscapers work with us by phone and email: you send job photos, your licence details if you have one and the suburbs you cover, and we send back a draft link to check between jobs.
We haven't built for a Mackay landscaper yet. The nearest examples are a Western Sydney tree service, whose results are written up in a case study, and a structural landscaping and bobcat business in the Bega Valley.
A family-owned tree service across Greater Sydney with stump grinding, removals, trimming and 24/7 emergency work. Its single page has two quote forms, reviews, a service-area list and tap-to-call, which is how we'd set up a Mackay crew that takes storm clean-up calls.
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A bobcat and excavation business on the NSW far south coast doing structural landscaping, pools and earthworks. One page, three service sections, a testimonial carousel and a 42-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, so a client can scroll through finished jobs in seconds.
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Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.
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A good start for most Mackay garden crews
$399
Services, a gallery captioned by suburb, your QBCC details, the suburbs and towns you cover and a quote form with photo upload, on one page. Suits a garden maintenance or planting business.
$899
A home page, a landscaping page with projects by suburb, and an irrigation and garden care page explaining the watering days and the native plants you use, each with an enquiry form.
$1,499
Separate pages for construction, planting, turf, irrigation, weed control, storm clean-ups and maintenance, plus an about page with your licence and the towns you travel to.
Give the short version and link to council's water page, since council can change the level. The useful part for a client is what you do about it: setting controllers to their odd or even days and to the hours before 10am and after 4pm.
If you plant natives, yes. A line saying you can design a garden around the plants a client collects from council's North Mackay nursery, or plan a Gardens for Wildlife garden with its canopy tree, gives owners a practical reason to choose you.
List those towns by name on the service area section and add them to the quote form, so you know where a job is before you reply. If you charge for travel past a certain point, say so plainly.
Yes. The quote form takes several photos with the suburb and what's been damaged. You'll see straight away whether it needs a tree service or Ergon before your crew can start, or whether it's a clean-up you can book in.
No. We're a web design team in Adelaide, South Australia, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and Mackay work runs by phone and email. You send photos and details, we build the draft, you ask for changes, and you pay after you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us the suburbs and towns you work in, your QBCC licence number if you hold one, and photos of a handful of finished gardens. We'll quote first, build the draft, and nothing is owed until you approve it.
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