Ranked: marketing agencies for landscapers

What a landscaper should be asking

Can I pause or cancel when the diary is full? Does the site show my work properly on a phone? Will enquiries from February actually be followed up when I am flat out in May? And can I see the price?

Those four questions set the order below. We also noted whether each agency targets domestic gardens or commercial grounds contracts, because the marketing for each is almost unrelated. Every fact is taken from the agencies' own websites.

1. Market Maestro

Best for: Landscaping contractors chasing commercial grounds and construction work via LinkedIn

Market Maestro is not a domestic landscaping agency and does not claim to be. It runs LinkedIn outreach and management for contractors and construction specialists chasing contracts of £50,000 and above, with a four-stage 'Hi-Vis Method' and client approval of all content, according to its website.

Published starting prices are £850 a month for LinkedIn outreach and £1,100 for wider management. Its case study is a decorating contractor that won tendered commercial work. Construction SEO, website building and lead generation are also listed.

It leads this list for one segment only: landscaping firms that want to leave domestic patios behind for housebuilder, council or facilities contracts. For a two-person garden firm it is the wrong agency entirely, and we have said so.

2. Riley Marketing

Best for: Domestic landscapers who want to capture spring enquiries without a long contract

Riley Marketing names landscapers among its trades and its terms suit a seasonal business better than most. Its foundational growth system costs £149 a month at the time of writing, is built up front before the client pays, carries no setup fee and can be cancelled at any time, according to its website.

That matters in a trade where a landscaper may want the system working hard from January to April and be too busy to care in July. The system includes an SEO-focused website with service and location pages, so a firm can rank for 'patio installer' and 'garden design' in each town it covers, plus Google Business Profile optimisation and automated Google review requests that go back to past customers, who in landscaping are usually delighted and rarely asked.

Missed call text back deals with the enquiries that come in while the firm is on a job, and a CRM with lead status tracking and branded quote pages on the landscaper's own domain helps with the quotes that go quiet. Founder Tom Riley, who has 10 years in search and lead generation, handles clients directly. Paid Google, Facebook and Instagram ads are add-ons.

The published client builds are in industrial painting and building rather than landscaping, so a landscaper should ask to see how image-heavy work is handled.

3. JDR Group

Best for: Larger landscaping and garden room companies with a showroom or sales team

The Derby inbound agency names landscapers and garden room providers among its home improvement clients and publishes garden room content, according to its website. It calls itself a top HubSpot partner and offers inbound marketing, SEO, Google Ads, paid social, email automation, CRM implementation and sales training.

Published results cover traffic and revenue for a B2C home improvement company. Pricing guides are linked, figures are not shown. For a landscaping business selling garden rooms or design-and-build projects from a showroom, the sales process work is relevant. For a sole trader it is not.

4. Websites 4 Trades

Best for: Gardeners and landscapers wanting a cheap pay-monthly website

Carl Hancock's trades-only web firm, founded in 2021, lists gardeners among its clients and charges £30 a month flat with no upfront cost and unlimited changes on the standard package, according to its website. The client buys their own domain and SEO is a separate service.

No written case studies are published; a logo wall links to live sites. For a landscaper the key question is how photographs are presented, and the answer is best found by clicking through those live sites.

5. Get A Trades Website

Best for: Landscapers who want a founder-built site with a quotes and invoices portal

The Edinburgh agency names landscapers in its trade list and publishes its prices: quick-start sites at £149, £299 and £499, tailored builds typically £750 to £3,000 and above, an SEO tune-up at £39 a month and managed SEO from £149 a month, according to its website.

A trades business portal for quotes, invoices, leads and reviews is included in the offer, and content is written from the client's own notes and photos, which for a landscaper means the finished gardens should feature. Live client sites span surfacing, plumbing, electrical, carpentry and handyman work. See our Get A Trades Website profile for more.

Seasonal flexibility compared

Deciding as a landscaper

If the ambition is commercial grounds work, Market Maestro is the only agency in this list built for it, and its published prices make the sums easy. If the business is domestic gardens, driveways and patios, the realistic choice is between a cheap owned site from Websites 4 Trades or Get A Trades Website, and Riley Marketing's monthly system that does the reviews, call capture and quoting as well.

Garden room and design-and-build firms at the larger end are JDR Group's territory. Driveway-heavy firms should also read our separate ranking of agencies for driveway and paving contractors, where two agencies with a specific hard-landscaping focus appear.

Finally, be wary of any agency that quotes a cost per landscaping lead as though it were fixed. Our explainer on reading an agency case study shows how seasonal trades can make a winter figure look very different from a spring one.

Frequently asked questions