Websites for Townsville landscapers, irrigation installers and lawn and garden rounds from Bushland Beach to Alligator Creek and across to Magnetic Island: your QBCC details shown properly, dry-season gardens captioned by suburb, and pages that show clients you know the city's watering rules and its yellow crazy ant program.
Townsville City Council says more than 70% of household water in the city goes on lawns and gardens. A garden that stays green through the dry without a big water bill is a selling point here, and so is a crew that won't bring pests in with the turf and that plants trees likely to stay upright when a cyclone comes through.
Sprinklers can only run between 5pm and 8am, on three set days that depend on whether the house number is odd or even, and never on a Monday. Council's policy counts an automatic irrigation system as a sprinkler and defines drip irrigation separately. If you install systems, say that you design them for Townsville's restrictions and set each controller to the property's days.
Council's advice is to water no more than twice a week in the dry and never when it's wet, at around 12 millimetres a time for lawns, and to adjust controllers as the seasons change. Photos of gardens taken in September or October, captioned with the plants and the watering set-up, show what a waterwise yard looks like better than any claim can.
Council says yellow crazy ants are often moved by people, in freight pallets, timber products and landscaping supplies, and suggests asking suppliers what biosecurity risks come with their products. A line on where you source soil, mulch, turf and pavers, and that you report suspect ants, answers a question more clients are starting to ask.
Ergon Energy names trees that don't perform well in storms and cyclones, African mahogany and weeping fig among them, and asks for planting to stay at least three metres from power poles. If you design gardens or replace trees after a storm, say how you pick species for wind and clearance. It gives a client a reason to choose you over a cheaper quote.
Council asks residents not to pile grass clippings around the trunks of street trees, because the trapped moisture encourages fungal disease, pests and root decay. A lawn round that says it bags clippings and takes them to a transfer station or composts them, rather than leaving them on the nature strip, reads as a business that knows the city.
Townsville people search by suburb. List the ones you cover, say plainly whether you take Magnetic Island jobs, and caption projects with the place, such as "Native screening and drip lines, Bushland Beach" or "Courtyard paving and planters, North Ward".
The state rules on landscaping licences don't change in the north. Once structural work such as a retaining wall, paving or a deck is valued at more than $3,300, it needs a QBCC licence (drainage needs one at any value), and your licensed name and number go on your website like any other ad. Our Brisbane landscapers page covers the two licence classes in detail. This section sticks to what's local.
Watering. Townsville is on permanent water conservation measures. Sprinklers may be used from 5pm to 8am, Tuesday to Sunday: even-numbered properties on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, odd-numbered properties on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, and no sprinklers on Mondays. Tighter levels step down from there. At low and medium levels sprinklers run only 5 to 7am and 6 to 8pm, at high level they can't be used and hand watering is limited to an hour morning and evening, and at critical level only watering cans and buckets are allowed. Council's policy defines a sprinkler to include an automatic irrigation system, and gives drip irrigation its own definition: emitters at least 30 centimetres apart, each putting out no more than 8 litres an hour, laid to water a specific bed and covered to cut evaporation. Once any restriction level applies, commercial nurseries and market gardens can't water between 9am and 4pm. Council's lawn guidance is around 12 millimetres twice a week in the dry.
Yellow crazy ants. Council's Townsville Yellow Crazy Ant Management Program began in November 2023, a four-year, $12.8 million partnership with the Queensland and Australian governments. In April 2026 council said the team had found 49 infestations across 14 suburbs, including Douglas, Stuart and Alligator Creek, and had treated about 4,800 hectares in two years; its list of known locations also names Alice River, Black River, Brookhill, Garbutt, Julago, Oak Valley and Wulguru. The ants form super colonies, spray formic acid that can burn pets, and are spread mostly by people, often in pallets, packaging, timber and landscaping supplies. Council advises businesses to ask suppliers about biosecurity risks and to keep a pest management plan, and asks for a clear photo of any suspect ants through Snap Send Solve or by phoning 13 48 10. It also says fire ants and electric ants aren't known to occur in Townsville.
Powerlines and street trees. Ergon Energy's Plant Smart guidance asks for plants to be at least three metres from power poles, for a tree to be planted as far from a pole as it will grow tall, and for a two-metre gap between the service wire to a house and the height of mature trees. It lists regular causes of outages, such as bamboo, tall palms, climbing vines and tall eucalypts, and a separate group that doesn't stand up well to storms and cyclones: yellow flame tree, African mahogany, river blue gum, weeping fig and pink trumpet tree. It also says never to trim near powerlines yourself. Trees on council land are council's to manage. Council won't consider removing a public tree that is healthy and structurally sound, or one whose only problem is leaf or fruit drop, blocked private views, shade over solar panels or personal taste, and an application without the required information and photos is declined.
Where the work is, and how we work. The city reaches from Bushland Beach, Deeragun and Jensen in the north, through Kirwan, Condon and Kelso on the old Thuringowa side and the established suburbs around Hermit Park, Mundingburra and North Ward, to Annandale, Douglas, Wulguru and Alligator Creek in the south, with Magnetic Island across Cleveland Bay. Name the parts you want more work from and we'll set your service area out that way. We're a web design team based in Adelaide, and Townsville landscapers work with us by phone and email: you send photos of finished jobs, your licence details if you hold one and the suburbs you cover, and we send back a draft link to check.
We haven't built for a Townsville landscaper yet. The closest work we can show is a tree service in Western Sydney, with its job numbers in a case study, and a licensed plumbing and gas business in Queensland.
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A Queensland plumber and gas fitter. The one-page site lists six services, shows 13 completed jobs in a gallery that swipes on mobile, and finishes with testimonials, a protected enquiry form and tap-to-call. Swap the jobs for gardens and the layout suits a small landscaping crew.
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Services, a gallery of dry-season gardens, the suburbs you cover, your QBCC details and a quote form with photo upload, on a single page. Suits a lawn and garden round.
Our suggestion for most Townsville landscapers
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A home page, a landscaping page with projects by suburb, and an irrigation and garden care page explaining how you work within the watering rules, each with its own enquiry form.
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Separate pages for construction, planting, turf, irrigation, storm clean-ups and maintenance, a projects page, and an about page with your licence and how you source and check materials.
Say what you do rather than restating the policy: that you design systems for Townsville's restrictions, set controllers to the property's odd or even days, and can fit drip irrigation that matches council's definition for garden beds. Then link to council's water updates page, because the restriction level can change.
If you move soil, mulch, turf, plants or pallets of pavers, a short, calm line helps. Say where you source materials, that you check them, and that you report suspect ants to council's program. Council names landscaping supplies among the ways the ants travel, so clients in suburbs with known infestations may well ask.
Yes. The quote form can take several photos, the suburb, what was damaged and whether any trees are near powerlines. That tells you before you call back whether the job needs an arborist, or Ergon, before your crew can start.
Give island work its own short section: which bays you cover, how often you go across, and whether island jobs carry a minimum or a travel charge. We'd also add an island option to the quote form so those enquiries are easy to spot.
No. We're a web design team in Adelaide, South Australia, our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and Townsville work runs by phone and email. You send photos and details, we build a draft, you ask for whatever changes you want, and you pay after you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us the suburbs you cover, your QBCC licence number if you have one, and photos of five or six gardens you're proud of. You'll get a quote first, we build the draft, and nothing is owed until you approve it.
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