Searching "how to make a free landscaping website"? Landscaping is a visual trade — customers want to see what you've built before they hand over a patio or garden-redesign budget. They search landscaper near me or patio installation [town], then judge you on your past work and reviews. This guide covers building a landscaping website for free yourself, and the faster route where we build it for you at no cost.
Can you really make a landscaping website for free?
You can — with the free-tier trade-offs that hit a visual, higher-value trade especially hard:
- A builder subdomain like yourname.wixsite.com, which undercuts trust on bigger contracts.
- Competitor ads on your pages.
- Limited image handling and SEO, so your portfolio — your single best selling tool — doesn't rank or load well.
- No real ownership of the site.
Free is a fine start; just know that for landscaping, how your work is presented is the sale.
How to make a free landscaping website, step by step
- Pick a builder — Wix or Google Sites, with a template that puts photos first.
- Get a proper domain if you can — it signals an established business.
- Build the five pages a landscaping site needs: Home, a project Gallery, Services, Service Area, and Contact with a quote form.
- Load your best before/after photos — gardens, patios, driveways. Twenty strong project shots beat any amount of text.
- Set up your Google Business Profile with the right category and every area you serve, and add the same project photos.
- Ask happy clients for reviews — they compound, and they rank.
"Garden design [city]", "patio installation near me", "artificial grass [town]" — these are high-intent searches with real contracts behind them. Your portfolio is how you win them.
What a great landscaping website includes (with examples)
- A strong before/after gallery organised by project type — design, paving, lawn care, planting.
- Clear services in plain language, each able to rank for its own search.
- Your service radius spelled out by town.
- A seasonal section (winter maintenance, clearance, planning) so enquiries arrive before your busy season.
- A quote form and reviews to convert the visit.
That's the structure we use on the landscaping sites we build — portfolio-led, built to win bigger contracts.
How much does a landscaping website cost?
- Free builder: $0 — with the subdomain, ads, and image/SEO limits above.
- Paid builder: ~$15–30/month, forever, self-built.
- Freelancer: $500–1,500 one-off.
- Agency: $2,000–5,000+ custom.
- The Toolbox: $0 to build, ~$5–10/month self-hosted, files yours to keep.
One patio or garden-design contract is worth more than years of hosting. The site pays for itself on the first job.
The shortcut: we build your landscaping website free
Rather not build it yourself? We build free websites for landscapers — five pages, mobile-first, a proper project gallery, and your Google Business Profile set up so you rank from day one. Delivered in seven days, yours to keep. No invoice, no catch.
For more, read how landscapers get found on Google, or apply for your free landscaping website.