Best landscapers in Stirling and Scarborough (2026)
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These are the ten best-rated landscapers working Stirling and Scarborough, from the Sunset Coast at Scarborough, Trigg, North Beach and Watermans Bay, inland through Karrinyup, Carine, Gwelup and Doubleview, and across the older established belt at Innaloo, Balcatta, Osborne Park, Tuart Hill and Joondanna. They’re ranked on real Google reviews, not on who paid us. Below the list you’ll find what turf, a retaining wall, reticulation, paving or a full backyard makeover actually costs around here in 2026, the red flags that tell you to keep your deposit in your pocket, and a quick checklist to run before you let anyone start digging.
Featured landscapers
These spots are for Stirling and Scarborough landscapers who want to stand out on this page. None are taken yet, so the full review-ranked top 10 is right below. That ranking is earned off Google reviews and never for sale. Are you a local landscaper around Stirling, Scarborough or Osborne Park? Featured spots start at $50 a year.
Get a Featured spot ▸How we ranked these
- Google reviews do the ranking. We start with every landscaper’s live Google star rating and the number of reviews behind it, pulled fresh from Google Maps across Stirling, Scarborough, Osborne Park, Karrinyup and the northern coast.
- Rating, weighted by volume. A 5.0 from a handful of jobs isn’t proof yet, so we weight the score by review count. A proven rating from dozens of customers isn’t beaten by a perfect score from a few. It also means a very strong 4.9 backed by a big review base can sit ahead of some perfect scores with thinner bases.
- Some landscaping work needs a licensed trade. Landscaping itself isn’t a licensed trade in WA, but the bits attached to it are. A retaining wall over 500mm generally needs a building permit and engineering, garden lighting and pump wiring must be done by a licensed electrician, and anything plumbed into mains or bore water needs the right backflow and a licensed plumber. A good landscaper organises all of that. We show you how to check in the checklist.
- Designers and maintenance crews sit in their own lane. Stirling has some excellent landscape architects (Kelsie Davies and eScape both hold strong sheets) and plenty of good garden-maintenance and mowing outfits (Sprucify, Lawn & Order and others). They do real, useful work, but this page ranks the crews who design and build gardens, so pure design studios and mow-and-go maintenance rounds are named here rather than ranked against the builders.
- Supply yards and other trades left out. Landscape supply stores, soil and paving yards and garden retailers show up under these searches. They’re real businesses, but they’re not the contractor you book to do the work, so we’ve kept them off this list along with any listing carrying only a review or two.
- Paid spots are labelled, and never jump the queue. When a business pays for a “Featured” spot it’s marked as such. The review-based order below does not change to favour a payer. Right now, no spots are sold.
Frozzie Garden Landscaping
A perfect 5.0 held across 62 reviews is the biggest single body of proof of any dedicated landscaper working the Stirling and Scarborough strip, which is why the volume weighting puts them first by a nose. Sixty-plus clean reviews tells you they can take a tired coastal yard and hand back a finished garden without the wheels falling off halfway, from the soil prep and retic through to turf and planting. If you want a proven crew for a full garden makeover anywhere from Osborne Park out to the coast, this is a sound first call.
View listing & contact ▸Principal Landscapes
A 4.9 across 74 reviews is the single deepest base of proof on this whole list, and the volume weighting rewards that: a strong rating earned over that many jobs sits right up with the perfect scores from thinner books. Holding close to a perfect sheet across seventy-plus finished jobs points to tidy site work and finishing that matches the render, which is exactly what you want before someone rips up your backyard. If you want the reassurance of the biggest verified track record up here, this is it.
View listing & contact ▸Mint Landscapes
A 4.8 across 66 reviews is the second-biggest book of work on the page, and a very solid rating over that many jobs earns its spot near the top on the weighting. Any of the top three is a safe first call for a yard transformation across the Stirling cluster; the order between them comes down to review weight rather than a gap in the work. Sixty-six reviews of steady, tidy jobs is a lot of homeowners you can ring around before you commit.
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A note on the ranking: the top of this list is genuinely close. Frozzie Garden Landscaping holds a perfect 5.0 over 62 reviews, the deepest 5.0 base of any dedicated landscaper on the strip, which the volume weighting keeps just ahead. Principal Landscapes sits second on a 4.9 across 74, the single biggest book of work on the page, because a strong rating over a big base of jobs beats a perfect score from a thinner one, and Mint Landscapes third on a 4.8 across 66. From there down the scores tighten to a whisker, so treat positions four to ten as a strong, closely matched pack rather than a firm pecking order (Textures Landscaping and Perth Landscaping Renovations are a genuine tie on identical 5.0-over-23 sheets). We list only real, review-bearing build landscapers and never pad the list. Landscape architects Kelsie Davies (5.0 across 19) and eScape (4.8 across 18) are named as design specialists rather than ranked, and busy maintenance and mowing rounds like Sprucify Gardening (5.0 across 20) and Lawn & Order WA (5.0 across 14) sit in their own lane. Near-misses just outside the weighted top 10 include Satori Services (5.0 across 11), Northshore Landscape Construction (4.7 across 15), Allscapes WA (4.6 across 24) and Landscape By Design (4.5 across 76, the biggest base of the lot but a rating right on our baseline). Tim Davies Landscaping is a well-known name with a huge base (4.3 across 95), but the 4.3 rating pulls it below the pack on the weighting.
What landscaping actually costs around Stirling and Scarborough (2026)
Nobody likes ringing a landscaper blind on price. These are honest ballpark ranges for the common jobs around Stirling and Scarborough, GST and standard labour included. They’re a guide to keep you from being overcharged, not a quote. Landscaping pricing swings a fair bit on materials, site access and how much muck has to come out before anything goes in, so always get the job priced in writing before work starts.
| Job | Typical range | What pushes it up |
|---|---|---|
| Lay natural turf (rolled lawn, supply & lay) | $12-$22 / m² | Soil prep, levelling, premium buffalo varieties, small awkward areas |
| Artificial turf (supply & install) | $70-$120 / m² | Pile quality, base build-up, cuts around beds and paths, courtyard access |
| Reticulation, new system (per station/zone) | $180-$350 | Bore vs mains, number of zones, controller, trenching through limestone |
| Retaining wall, limestone block (per m² face) | $300-$650 | Height, engineering & permit over 500mm, drainage, slope near Carine and Trigg |
| Paving (supply & lay, per m²) | $80-$180 | Paver type, patterns, cuts, base and compaction |
| Coastal salt-hardy planting & soil prep (per m²) | $45-$95 | Plant size and choice, garden mix and wetting agent, wind-tolerant species |
| Limestone or rendered feature wall | $350-$700 / m | Height, footings, render and capping finish |
| Mulch supply & spread | $60-$95 / m³ | Mulch type, spread area, wheelbarrow access |
| Garden design / landscape plan | $500-$2,500 | Concept vs full documented plan, site survey, 3D render |
| Ongoing garden maintenance (visit) | $60-$120 | Yard size, frequency, green-waste removal, hedging |
| Full backyard makeover (small-medium) | $15,000-$45,000+ | Retaining, paving, turf, retic, planting, lighting combined |
The Stirling and Scarborough strip is its own kind of job. Almost all of it sits on the Spearwood and Karrakatta dune systems, which means limestone and sand rather than soil, so a good landscaper builds up proper garden mix and wetting agent or your plants and lawn cook off in the first summer. Right along the Sunset Coast at Scarborough, Trigg, North Beach, Watermans Bay and Marmion the salt wind is brutal on soft-leaved plants and cheap fixings, so hardy coastal species and galvanised or stainless fittings earn their keep, and the sloping blocks up towards Carine, Karrinyup and the coastal ridge often want retaining and terracing to make a flat, usable yard. Perth’s long dry summers and the two-day sprinkler roster make a well-designed reticulation system and hydrozoned planting worth every dollar, and the City of Stirling sits in the Waterwise scheme worth asking about. The older established suburbs like Doubleview, Innaloo, Osborne Park, Balcatta, Tuart Hill and Joondanna are usually tired 1960s and 70s gardens getting a reno around existing trees and limestone walls, while the newer townhouses and infill around Stirling and Osborne Park more often want low-maintenance courtyard gardens, artificial turf and clean paving. A good landscaper should give you a fixed price or a not-to-exceed figure, in writing, before starting. If they can’t, that’s a red flag (see below).
Don’t get ripped off: red flags
- A big deposit up front, then they vanish. Landscaping is the classic trade for a dodgy operator to take a fat deposit for “materials” and never come back, or drift off mid-job. Keep the deposit modest, tie payments to stages you can see finished, and never pay the lot before the work is done.
- A retaining wall over knee height with no permit or engineering. In WA a retaining wall over 500mm generally needs a building permit and an engineer’s design, especially if it holds up a neighbour’s ground or props a sloping Carine or Trigg block. “We’ll just stack the blocks” on a serious wall gets you something that bulges, cracks or fails, and a fight over who pays to fix it.
- No plan, no measurements, just a number. A good landscaper measures the site, checks levels and drainage and gives you a scope you can hold them to. A vague verbal “about ten grand should do it” with nothing on paper is how jobs blow out and turn into arguments.
- Reticulation or lighting done without the right trade. Anything wired for garden lights or a pump needs a licensed electrician, and anything plumbed into mains water needs the right backflow prevention and a licensed plumber. A cheap quote that quietly skips this leaves you to sort it, or leaves it done wrong.
- Cheap fill, no soil prep, no drainage. On our sandy coastal blocks, laying turf or garden straight onto builder’s sand or unimproved limestone with no mix, wetting agent or drainage is the shortcut that looks fine for a month then dies off or floods. Ask exactly what goes in under the green stuff, and how salt-hardy the coastal planting is.
Before you hire: quick checklist
- Right trades for the attached work. Confirm a licensed electrician does any garden lighting or pump wiring and a licensed plumber handles any mains-water connection and backflow. For a retaining wall over 500mm, ask about the City of Stirling building permit and engineering.
- Insurance. Ask for current public liability cover. Landscaping moves a lot of soil, machinery and heavy materials around your and your neighbour’s property, so it matters.
- Written quote with a scope. Itemised and in writing, including materials, quantities (m² of turf or paving, wall height and length), what’s excluded, and a stage-based payment schedule, before work starts.
- Soil, drainage and coastal planting spelled out. On our sandy limestone soils, confirm what garden mix, wetting agent and drainage go in under the turf, beds and paving, and that the planting near the coast is chosen for salt and wind.
- A realistic timeline. Get start and finish dates in writing, and tie payments to visible stages (retaining done, paving done, turf laid) rather than dates.
- Recent, specific reviews. Look for recent reviews that mention the actual work (retaining, paving, retic, turf), not just a big number. A steady stream of detailed jobs beats one old burst.
Frequently asked
How did you rank these landscapers?
By their live Google star rating and the number of reviews behind it, pulled from Google Maps across Stirling, Scarborough, Osborne Park, Karrinyup and the northern coast. We weight the rating by review volume so a proven score from dozens of customers isn’t leapfrogged by a perfect score from a handful. That weighting is why Frozzie Garden Landscaping (5.0 over 62) leads narrowly, and why Principal Landscapes’ 4.9 across 74, the biggest base on the page, sits right with it. All ten are working build landscapers, not design-only studios, maintenance rounds or supply yards.
Are these paid placements?
No. This list is ordered on Google review data. Businesses can pay for a “Featured” spot at the top, which is clearly labelled, but paying never changes the review-based order below. As of this update, no spots are sold.
Do I need council approval for a retaining wall?
Often, yes. As a rule of thumb in WA a retaining wall over 500mm high, or any wall that holds up a neighbour’s land or a driveway, needs a building permit and an engineer’s design, and the City of Stirling sets the detail for this whole cluster. A good landscaper will tell you when a permit is needed and organise the engineering rather than just stacking blocks and hoping, which matters on the sloping blocks up around Carine, Karrinyup and Trigg. Low decorative walls under half a metre usually don’t need approval, but check before you commit.
Artificial turf or natural lawn near the coast?
Both work, they just suit different people. Natural buffalo lawn is cheaper to lay, stays cooler underfoot and handles our sandy soil well once it’s prepped, but it needs reticulation, mowing and fertiliser and drinks water on the sprinkler roster. Artificial turf costs more up front and gets hot in full Scarborough summer sun, but there’s no watering, mowing or roster to worry about, which suits the small courtyards and townhouses around Stirling and Osborne Park, poolside and rentals. On a shaded or high-traffic strip where nothing grows, artificial often wins; on a big open backyard, natural usually makes more sense.
What plants cope with the Scarborough coast?
Anything you put in on the Sunset Coast strip has to handle salt wind and fast-draining sand, so the landscapers up here lean on hardy coastal species: things like coastal rosemary, agonis, native grasses, succulents, dwarf agapanthus and other tough, low-water plants that shrug off the wind and the summer heat. A good landscaper matches the planting to how exposed your block is, builds up the soil with mix and wetting agent so it holds water, and keeps the soft, thirsty feature plants to sheltered spots. It’s the difference between a garden that fills in and one you’re replacing every second summer.
How much does a full backyard makeover cost?
It depends heavily on what’s involved, but a small-to-medium Stirling or Scarborough backyard combining retaining, paving, turf, reticulation and planting typically lands somewhere from $15,000 to $45,000 and up, with lighting, a patio, a pool surround or a lot of retaining pushing it higher. The single biggest swing is how much retaining and levelling the block needs, which is why a sloping Carine or Trigg block can cost more to start than a tidy-up of a flat Doubleview garden. Get the job scoped and priced in stages so you can see where the money goes.
How often is this page updated?
Monthly. Ratings and review counts move, new landscapers earn their spot, and we re-pull the data so the list stays honest and current.
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Get featured ▸ Claim your free listingRankings based on Google review data collected 24 July 2026. Ratings change, we re-check monthly. Blue Collar Business · Western Australia’s Trades & Home Services Directory.