Last Updated on July 19, 2026
Landscapers do the most photogenic work in the trades. And most landscaper websites show almost none of it.
That is the whole problem, and it makes this the cheapest website decision in any trade. Your site does not need clever copy or a big budget. It needs your last fifteen jobs, photographed properly, in one place.
New to all this? Start with our full guide to how to start a website for your UK business, then come back here for the landscaper specifics.
The mistake most landscapers make
Two mistakes, actually.
First, they let Instagram be the website. Instagram is good at feeding the gallery, but it buries your best work in a feed, shows your competitors in the next scroll, and gives a serious customer no prices, no service area and no way to request a quote. Post there, but send people somewhere you own.
Second, they think about all of this in April. The enquiry surge for gardens starts in early spring. If the site goes live in April, it is invisible to Google until the season is nearly over. The site you want working in March gets built in November. Winter is quiet for a reason. Use it.
What a landscaper website costs in 2026
Do it yourself. This is the trade where DIY genuinely works, because photos carry the site. Wix from around £9 a month or Squarespace from around £12 a month billed annually, both built for image galleries. A .co.uk domain runs £7 to £15 a year, often free in year one. Year one total: £120 to £250.
A freelancer build. £800 to £3,000, most landing between £1,200 and £2,000, plus £100 to £300 a year to run. Worth it once design work is a regular part of the business and the average job justifies it.
An agency. £2,500 to £10,000. Not for the Start stage. That budget is a new camera, a winter of gallery building and change.
For scale: a decent patio job runs £2,000 to £6,000 and a full garden redesign £5,000 to £15,000 or more. One patio pays for a professional site. Two pay for the agency you did not need.
What the site must show
A gallery organised by job type. Patios, decking, fencing, planting, full redesigns. A customer wanting a patio wants to see ten patios, not a mixed feed.
Before and after pairs. The single most persuasive format in landscaping. A muddy slope becoming a terraced garden sells the next terraced garden for you.
Design and maintenance, separated. One off builds and weekly maintenance are different customers and different money. If you do both, give each its own page. If you only want one, say so and stop attracting the other.
Your towns, named. “Gardens across Chorley, Leyland and Preston” beats “the North West” for both Google and the reader.
Two ways in. Click to call, and a quote form that asks for photos of the garden. Photo uploads pre qualify the job and save you half the site visits.
What to skip at the Start stage
Paid ads before the gallery exists. A £300 a month SEO retainer. A blog about garden trends. And directory subscriptions at £70 to £150 a month that put your patios next to three competitors’ patios. Gallery first. Everything else is Build stage.
The takeaway
A landscaper website costs £120 to £250 a year to run yourself, or £1,200 to £2,000 built for you. But the spend is not really the decision. The decision is whether you photograph every job from the same corner, before and after, starting this week, and get the site live before the spring rush does its searching.
Not sure whether the website is what is holding you back? Whito’s Whito Pro gives you a straight answer.
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