Websites for Perth landscape builders, garden designers, reticulation installers and maintenance rounds. Finished gardens shown one job at a time with the suburb, your Waterwise endorsement where you hold one, irrigation pages written around the sprinkler roster, and a quote form that takes photos of the backyard and the verge.
Perth gardens are built on sand, watered two days a week and judged after a long dry summer. People hiring a landscaper here want to see that you plan for all three, and whether you'll handle the walls, the retic and the verge as well as the planting.
Water Corporation endorses landscapers and garden designers through its Waterwise Landscaper and Garden Design program, renewed every two years through the Landscape Industries Association WA, and reticulation businesses through the Waterwise Garden Irrigator program, with yearly professional development through Irrigation Australia. Endorsed businesses are listed in its Waterwise Specialists directory. If you hold either, the Waterwise branding goes on the home page and the services it covers, with the year you last renewed and a link a client can check.
Scheme water customers get two sprinkler days a week, set by the last digit of the house number, and can water once on each of those days before 9am or after 6pm. Sprinklers stay off from 1 June to 31 August, and garden bores in Perth and Mandurah follow a two-day roster too, on the same days by house number. Saying that you program each controller to the client's days and the winter switch-off answers a question careful owners ask before they sign.
A new lawn or garden can be watered outside the roster under a Water Corporation exemption: up to 42 days from planting between October and March, and up to 35 days between April and September, applied for on the day it goes in. A handover note on your turf page, with a link to the form, helps a client keep new turf alive through its first weeks without breaching the roster.
Water Corporation's own garden advice starts with the sand: if water sits on top instead of soaking in, the soil may be water repellent, and it suggests mixing clay and compost into the top layer and finishing with about 10 cm of chunky mulch. If your quotes include soil improvement, a project page that shows the beds being prepared explains a price that's higher than a quote which leaves that step out.
Verge gardens are common work in Perth, and each council writes its own rules about plants, hardstand and synthetic turf. A verge page that names the councils you've worked in, says you check the local policy before quoting, and shows two or three finished verges brings in enquiries a general garden page won't.
WA's building rules come into play once a wall is taller than half a metre, holds up a neighbour's land, or is part of other building work, and again for taller fences and pool barriers. If you hold a building contractor registration, the number goes on every page; if you don't, say which part of the job goes to an engineer or a registered builder, so nobody expects you to take on what you can't.
Fields for the suburb, scheme water or bore, whether the verge is part of the job, the width of side access for a bobcat, and whether it's a new build with a handover date, plus uploads for photos and plans. You can tell a verge planting from a full backyard build before you ring back.
Registration and permits in brief. In WA, building work that needs a building permit and is worth $20,000 or more has to be carried out by a registered building contractor, and section 8 of the Building Services (Registration) Act 2011 puts the contractor's registration number in its advertising, websites included. Our page for Perth builders covers registration and home indemnity insurance in more detail. For landscapers the usual triggers are walls, fences and pools. The Building Regulations 2012 exempt a retaining wall from a building permit only when it holds back no more than 0.5 m of ground and isn't tied to other building work or to protecting the land next door, and the City of Fremantle says it wants every retaining wall, whatever its height, designed by a practising structural engineer. Fences lose their exemption above 0.75 m for masonry and 1.8 m for other materials, and whenever they form part of a pool barrier. Councils then inspect pool barriers at least once every four years under regulation 53, which is worth a line on your site if you landscape around pools.
Water rules that shape the job. Perth and Mandurah share one set of sprinkler rules, set by Water Corporation: two rostered days a week, once a day before 9am or after 6pm, and a full sprinkler switch-off from 1 June to 31 August, though hand watering stays allowed. Two exemptions are written for the trade. Businesses in the turf, garden and landscaping industry can apply 10 mm of water straight after a wetting agent, fertiliser or vertimowing, which general customers can't. Irrigation installers can water to the minimum extent needed for installation, repairs and testing, capped at two minutes per station, with an authorised sprinkler testing sign on display. A line on your retic page explaining why a test might run outside the roster saves an awkward call from a neighbour.
Waterwise and the industry body. Water Corporation says the Landscaper and Garden Design training covers water-efficient design, irrigation basics and keeping a waterwise landscape going, and the program sets basic standards for plant selection, soil improvement, mulching, turf and bore use. Irrigators endorsed under the Garden Irrigator program get preferred supplier status for Water Corporation's rebate programs, and those offers change over time, so a rebate mention on your site needs a link to the current offer rather than a fixed promise. The Landscape Industries Association WA (LIAWA) keeps a Find a Professional directory and runs annual awards: its 2026 Resi-scape Awards had categories for residential design and construction, landscape maintenance and greenlife supply. If you've won one, put it on the project page for the garden that won it, with the year and the category.
Verges differ from one council to the next. The City of Stirling's verge policy lets owners lay lawn, low plants and organic mulch without approval, but paving, synthetic turf and in-situ concrete need written approval first, can cover no more than a third of the verge, and must sit at least 2 m from a street tree; plants have to stay below 750 mm. The Town of Claremont's 2023 guidelines rule out artificial turf, suggest plants no taller than 0.5 m, and ask for any reticulation to run down the middle of the verge on the Water Corporation roster. In a September 2024 response to the media, the City of Cockburn said it doesn't support synthetic grass across a whole verge and that approval is needed once more than 25 per cent of the verge is hard surface. Listing the councils you work in, and saying you check before you quote, is more use to a client than a general line about verge gardens.
Infill, and working with us. Since 10 April 2024, the revised Residential Design Codes have required new trees and deep soil areas in medium density developments, which take in single houses coded R50 and above, grouped dwellings coded R30 and above, and multiple dwellings coded R30 to R60. If you landscape townhouses and small-lot homes for builders or owners, a page showing that work, deep soil and new trees included, speaks to it directly. We're an Adelaide team and work with Perth businesses by phone and email. Adelaide is 1.5 hours ahead of Perth, or 2.5 while South Australia is on daylight saving. We haven't built for a WA landscaper yet, so the examples below are from New South Wales and South Australia.
No Perth landscaper in our portfolio yet. The two closest: a New South Wales excavation business whose work includes structural landscaping, and an Adelaide engineering practice that designs retaining walls for homeowners and builders.
Bobcat and excavator work in the Bega Valley, including structural landscaping and licensed pool building. The single page is built around a 42-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, which is how a Perth crew could show limestone walls, paving and pool surrounds, with testimonials and a contact form underneath.
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Adelaide structural engineers who design retaining walls, slabs and stormwater systems. Their quote form shows fee ranges and accepts file uploads, the same setup a Perth landscaper could use to collect a contour survey, a builder's plans or photos of a sloping block.
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Construction, retic and maintenance as separate sections, a project gallery, your suburbs and councils, your Waterwise endorsement and a quote form with photo upload. Enough for a maintenance round or a one-crew business.
Our suggestion for most Perth landscapers
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A home page, a projects page with the suburb and job type on each garden, and a page for retic and verges that covers the roster, the new-lawn exemption and the councils you work in.
$1,499
A home page, then design and construction, retic, verges and maintenance on a page each, plus projects (with any awards on the gardens that won them), service areas and a quote page that takes plans. For a business running several crews across the metro area.
Near your business name on the home page and again on the services it relates to, with the program (Landscaper and Garden Design, or Garden Irrigator) and when you last renewed. We link it to Water Corporation's Waterwise Specialists directory so a client can confirm it. If the endorsement lapses, taking it off is a text change, which the $30 monthly hosting covers.
A short paragraph on your turf or handover page is worth it: that the owner can apply on the day the lawn goes in, roughly how long the exemption lasts, and a link to Water Corporation's form. We'd link to Water Corporation for the watering schedule itself, since it sets and updates those figures.
Name the councils you work in and say you check the verge policy before quoting, instead of printing one council's rules as if they applied everywhere. If verges are a big part of your work, a verge page with finished examples and a line on hardstand limits and synthetic turf, which some councils restrict and others don't allow, covers what owners ask first.
Only if your business holds one. WA's registration rules cover building work that needs a permit and is worth $20,000 or more, which for a landscaper usually means larger walls or structures. If you hold a building contractor registration, we show the number on every page; if you plant, pave and install retic, we describe that accurately instead. For questions about your own obligations, Building and Energy is the place to ask.
By phone and email. You send photos of finished gardens, your services and suburbs, and any endorsement or registration; we send a draft link you can check on your phone, and you ask for changes the same way. You pay only once you approve it, and we reply within 24 hours. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD.
Send us photos of a few finished gardens or verges, the councils and suburbs you want work in, and your Waterwise endorsement or registration if you hold one. You'll get a quote first, and we build the draft before you pay anything.
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