Websites for Melbourne landscape designers, construction crews and garden maintenance businesses. Finished gardens shown one project at a time with the suburb, your BPC registration where your work needs it, and a quote form that accepts site photos and plans.
A Melbourne homeowner comparing landscapers tends to ask two things before price: have you built a garden like the one they're picturing, and can you legally take on the walls, steps or decking part of it. Your site should answer both before they reach the form.
Victoria's building regulator treats planting, garden beds, paving and ornamental ponds, under a contract limited to that work, as outside domestic building work, while retaining structures, fencing, verandahs and decks or pergolas attached to the house generally fall inside it. Listing softscape (planting, turf, mulching, garden renovation) separately from structural work (walls, fences, decks, pergolas) shows a client what you can contract for, and keeps maintenance customers out of the construction detail.
If you're registered with the BPC, for example in the domestic builder class limited to structural landscaping, the registered name and number go in the footer of every page as text. If you only plant and maintain, we say that plainly on the services page instead of a vague line about being fully licensed.
Some Melbourne businesses draw the plans and pass construction to a crew, some build from a designer's drawings, and some do both. One sentence near the top saying which you are saves you enquiries from people who want the other half. Where you built a garden someone else designed, the project credits the designer.
Each project gets the suburb, the rough size of the space, the main materials and photos from bare site to planted garden. A courtyard in Richmond and a sloping block in Eltham sell different work, so we file projects under the job types clients search for.
A Landscaping Victoria award or a medal from the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show carries weight when it comes with the year, the category and the garden that earned it. We place it on that project, not in a row of logos at the bottom of the page.
Fields for suburb, rough area, budget range, whether machinery can get down the side of the house and whether a design already exists, plus uploads for photos, a site survey or plans. You can tell a two-day planting job from a six-week build before you ring back.
If you install irrigation, say that controllers are set to the hours Victoria's permanent water rules allow, mention drip systems, rain sensors or tank connections if they're part of your work, and say who does the plumbing side: in Victoria that part of an irrigation system is registered plumbing work. Careful clients ask about it, and a straight answer shows you know the rules.
When registration applies. The Building and Plumbing Commission (BPC, the Victorian Building Authority's new trading name) says in its landscaping guidance that planting alone isn't domestic building work, and lists paving, driveways, garden beds and ornamental ponds alongside it when they're the only work in the contract. Retaining structures, fencing, verandahs and decks or pergolas attached to the home generally are domestic building work, and when a contract is worth more than ten thousand dollars, even a small component of that work means the client needs an appropriately registered practitioner. The BPC's example is a quote with a small attached deck and a larger lawn job, which together cross the line. Registration classes aimed at this work include domestic builder limited to the construction of structural landscaping, and narrower ones for retaining walls or gates and fences. Consumer Affairs Victoria adds that outdoor work above that amount needs a written major domestic building contract, and that pools and spas deeper than 30 cm need a building permit, as do their safety barriers. The advertising rule in section 169H of the Building Act, explained on our page for Melbourne builders, is why a registered landscaper's number belongs on every page.
Trees in the way. Several Melbourne councils protect trees on private land through local laws, and the rules reach landscapers as well as arborists. Under Boroondara's Tree Protection Local Law 2024, a canopy tree is one whose trunk measures 110 cm or more around at 1.4 m above ground, and a permit is needed for works within 2 m of its trunk, including digging, trenching, compaction and storing materials, as well as for removal. Hobsons Bay protects trees of the same circumference under its Community Local Law 2025. Separately, clause 52.37, introduced to every Victorian planning scheme by Amendment VC289 on 15 September 2025 and changed by Amendment VC315 on 24 September 2026, can require a planning permit to remove, destroy or lop a canopy tree in most residential zones. If you arrange arborist reports or permits, or regularly work around protected trees, a line saying so answers a common worry in the leafier suburbs.
Watering rules. Victoria's Permanent Water Saving Rules apply across the state every day of the year. As South East Water's summary puts it, garden watering systems can only run between 6pm and 10am, while a hand-held hose with a trigger nozzle, a watering can or a bucket can be used at any time. An irrigation page that mentions controllers programmed to that window tells a client their new garden won't put them in breach. The installation itself can be regulated too: the BPC registers and licenses plumbers in a class called irrigation (non-agricultural), which covers work on a property's irrigation system from the connection point to the last valve controlling each pressurised zone. If you or someone on your crew holds it, it belongs on your irrigation page; if a plumber does that part, say so.
Where the work gets seen. Landscaping Victoria, the state's landscape industry association, was founded in 1966 and marks its 60th year in 2026. Its Victorian Landscape Industry Awards are open to members, with categories covering residential and commercial construction, design, softscaping and maintenance; the 2026 winners are due to be announced on 13 November at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, next held from 17 to 21 March 2027 at the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, runs show, boutique, achievable, border and balcony garden competitions, and each show garden is credited to its designer and often to the construction team as well. Either gives a project a name and a year a client can look up.
How we work with you. We're an Adelaide team, and Melbourne businesses work with us by phone and email. The Victorian client in our portfolio is a coaching practice in Melbourne, and our outdoor-trade clients are in New South Wales, so your site is built from what you send: finished projects, your registration if you hold one, the suburbs you want work in and the services you'd like more of. You check the draft on your phone, ask for changes, and pay once it's right.
We don't have a Melbourne landscaper in our portfolio yet. The closest work is in New South Wales: an excavation business whose services include structural landscaping, and a Western Sydney tree service with job numbers we can share.
Structural landscaping, licensed pool building and earthworks around South Pambula and the Bega Valley, done with bobcats and excavators. The single page leans on a 42-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, the same format a Melbourne crew could use for finished walls, paving and pool surrounds, with testimonials and a contact form underneath.
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Stump grinding, tree removal and trimming across Greater Sydney, including emergency call-outs. One page with two quote forms, tap-to-call wherever a visitor has scrolled to, and a list of the areas served. It's the site behind the case study below.
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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.
See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
Planting and construction services listed separately, a project gallery, your suburbs, registration if you hold it and a quote form with photo upload. Suits a maintenance round or a small crew.
Our suggestion for most Melbourne landscapers
$899
A home page, a projects page with an entry for each garden, and a page on how a job runs from site visit and design through to handover, with irrigation and tree permits covered.
$1,499
Separate pages for design, construction, softscaping and maintenance, plus projects, awards, the areas you cover and a quote page that accepts plans. For businesses running more than one crew.
Not for that work. The BPC says planting on its own isn't domestic building work. Once a job includes something like a retaining wall, a fence or an attached deck, and the contract is worth more than ten thousand dollars, the BPC says an appropriately registered practitioner is needed. If you hold registration, we show the name and number on every page; if you don't, we describe your services accurately so nobody expects you to build what you can't contract for.
If trees are often part of your jobs, yes. A line on your process page saying you check whether a tree is protected, and who arranges the arborist report or permit, helps in council areas such as Boroondara, where works within 2 m of a canopy tree's trunk need a permit. Rules differ from council to council, so we word it around what you do rather than quoting one local law.
On the project it belongs to, with the year, the event and the category, and a link to the organiser's results if they publish them. A Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show medal or a Landscaping Victoria award reads as proof when a client can see the garden that won it.
Yes. The quote form can take photos, a designer's plans as PDFs or a site survey, plus a short description. It also asks about access, since a narrow side path decides how materials and machines get in. Everything arrives together in one email.
By phone and email. We're a web design team on Hutt St in Adelaide working with businesses Australia-wide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send photos, project notes and your service areas, we send a draft link, you ask for changes, and you pay only after you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us photos of three or four finished gardens, the suburbs you want more work in, and your BPC registration if you hold one. You'll get a quote first, and we build the draft before you pay anything.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au