Websites for garden centres and nurseries: your plants and products on your own site within the hour, and the enquiry on your desk first
You already keep your plants and products up to date for the online plant retailers. The same feed can run a site you own, fast enough to pass Google's real-visitor speed test, where a gardener or a landscaper finds the plant, sends the enquiry to you, and never sees a competitor's stock beside yours.
What it is like now
- What is in stock changes daily with the season and the website is frozen in spring.
- Landscapers want trade lists and availability, and ring for both.
- Events, café and plant sales all fight for the homepage.
What we build for garden centres
- Availability lists by category, updated from your stock system or a simple daily upload
- Trade availability and pricing behind a login
- Click-and-collect and local delivery for the ranges that suit it
- Seasonal landing pages that rank when people are searching
What it looks like in practice
Availability changes daily with the season and the website is frozen in spring; landscapers ring for trade lists. We publish availability lists by category from the stock system or a simple daily upload, put trade availability and pricing behind a login, add click-and-collect and local delivery for the ranges that suit it, and build seasonal landing pages that rank when people are searching.
What a website costs for garden centres and nurseries
Most garden centres need the Growth tier, from €10,000, delivered in 6 weeks, paid 40% to start, 40% at staging sign-off, 20% at launch. That includes your plants and products fed from your own system, a page per plant, the filters your buyers use, enquiry capture with alerts, sector pages, structured data, built to score 100 on Google's speed test at launch, and your hosting, domain and code in your name.
After launch, most take the Managed care plan at €195 a month: hosting, SSL, daily backups, software updates, uptime and security monitoring, 2 hours a month shared between content edits and development (no rollover), a monthly report in plain English and a one working day response, month to month with 30 days' notice. If the site you have now only needs its faults fixed rather than replacing, single fixes start at €175 and the free audit names them.
Typical ticket for a plant in your trade is €20 to €5,000; one enquiry that comes to you instead of to the online plant retailers covers a lot of website. The full menu, with the five-year comparison, is on the pricing page.
Questions garden centres ask
- Our stock changes every day.
- A daily upload from your till or a spreadsheet is enough. The site shows what you actually have, dated.
- Landscapers want trade availability.
- Behind a login, with their prices and a quick-order sheet by plant name and size.
- Can the café and events sit on the same site?
- Yes, on their own pages, without fighting the plants for the homepage.
Faults we see most on garden centres sites
Before anyone talks about a rebuild, the audit usually finds a few of these. Each has its own page with the fix and the fixed price, and none of them needs a new website.
- Slow to start loading · A half day to a day.
- Not built for phones · One to three days depending on the size of the site, or part of a rebuild.
- Footer still shows an old year · An hour, plus whatever the content review turns up.
- Missing page title · Two hours for a typical site.
- Missing meta description · Two hours for a typical site.
Check your own site first
Free, on screen in seconds. The faults a gardener or a landscaper actually hits on your homepage, and what each one costs you.
Free, no call. The first findings come up in a few seconds and the full result in about half a minute. We load your site in a real mobile browser the way Google measures it, read your inner pages, your DNS, certificate, email records and sitemap, follow your stock list to the pages for the things you actually sell, and show you the three worst things on screen.
Five questions to ask anyone quoting you, and our answers
- Where is the work actually done?
- Here, by the person you are talking to. Nothing is passed to a white-label shop in another time zone without telling you, because nothing is passed anywhere.
- Who can see my enquiry data, and under what agreement?
- You, and us while we build or maintain it, under a written data-processing agreement. Your customers' details never leave infrastructure in your name.
- What happens on day 31?
- The same as day 1. Fixed-price builds carry a 90-day warranty on defects; care plans run month to month; nothing expires when the invoice clears.
- Who owns the code, the hosting and the domain?
- You do, from the first commit. Your repository, your hosting account, your registrar. Written into the quote. (The one exception is the monthly dealer plan, where the code passes to you when the 12-month minimum is complete.)
- What does Google's own speed test say about it?
- We build to score 100 on Google's mobile test and report the launch-day figure in writing; the final instalment is due when the written acceptance criteria are met, not on a score. ukcarimports.ie scored 88 on 10 October 2026 with real visitors passing all five Core Web Vitals. Run it yourself, on any page of the proof site.
Fifteen minutes about your nursery
Tell us how your plants and products reach the online plant retailers today and we will tell you how they reach your own site tomorrow, with a fixed price.