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Your Portfolio Gallery Is the Strongest Argument You Have

Anyone commissioning a garden or a new paved driveway wants to see what you can do first. Photos of finished projects convince faster than any text — provided they are sorted, labelled and findable by trade. We build your portfolio gallery so that browsing turns into a concrete enquiry.

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Website at a fixed price from 1,490 € net Filterable by trade Before and after where it exists

6–8 projects

well documented are enough to start (project experience)

4 details

trade, town, year and task per project

50+

website projects supported (project experience)

24 hrs

response to your enquiry

Prices · net, plus VAT

from 1,490 € fixed price net
  • The portfolio gallery is part of the fixed price, not an extra
  • Filters by trade, town and year set up from the start
  • Existing phone photos prepared from 290 € net
  • Add new projects yourself later or let us maintain them
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Website at a fixed price from 1,490 € net — up to eight pages, portfolio gallery, enquiry form, mobile friendly, hosting for the first year included. More extensive, with regional pages and a careers section, from 2,900 € net. Maintenance and hosting from 39 € net per month, cancellable monthly. Preparing your existing photos from 290 € net.

In landscape gardening, quality is seen rather than read. A neatly laid terrace, a freshly paved yard, a pond with well-judged planting — what you can do is understood from one image in two seconds. That is why the gallery on a landscaping website is not decoration but the place where the decision is made. This page explains how a portfolio gallery has to be built so that it brings enquiries: which details belong with every project, where before-and-after genuinely helps, what to observe legally and how many projects are enough at the start. If your images are still sitting unsorted on your phone, the page on photos for your website helps with the first step.

Smartphone on a tripod aimed at a finished terrace

How a project is recorded in the gallery

Project gallery · one entry
Seven details turn a photo into a reference
Without them a picture stays a caption. With them it becomes filterable, findable and solid enough to point at during a sales conversation.
Paving and pathsPatioFencingPondTree careGrounds maintenanceFilter bar built from your real trades
DetailExample from one projectEffect
TradePaving and pathsfilterable
TownSöhlde, without street and numberproximity
Year2025currency
TaskRebuild and pave the yard entrancecontext
ChallengeSloping site, 80 centimetres held by a dry stone wallskill
Scopearound 120 square metres, concrete block pavingscale
Photosfour shots, one of them a close-upevidence
Six to eight projects documented this way are enough to start (project experience); you add further ones later yourself or we take care of it.filterable by trade
Galleryincluded in the fixed price
Preparing phone photosfrom 290 € net
Illustrative example of one gallery entry. The details will later come from your own projects; the gallery belongs to the fixed price from 1,490 € net.

Why the Portfolio Gallery Decides Everything

Anyone approaching three firms clicks the images first and reads the text afterwards. Without images, price is the only remaining difference — and then the cheapest quote usually wins rather than the best one. A gallery of your own projects reverses that logic: it shows craftsmanship, choice of materials and attention to detail before money is discussed. The prospect no longer opens with "what does a square metre of paving cost?" but with "could you build something like that for me?". That is an entirely different starting point for a conversation. At the same time the gallery works as a filter for the enquiries that reach you: if it is visible that you build complete garden schemes with paving, cisterns and planting, fewer people get in touch who only want twenty square metres of lawn mowed. Show projects from your operating area with the town named, and enquiries from far outside it become rarer too — exactly where many firms stand: the order book is full, yet the wrong enquiries still cost time every single day.

Image Before Text

Every project starts with a large, sharp image. The description adds what cannot be seen instead of replacing the picture.

Filterable by Trade

Paving, terraces, ponds, fencing, tree care: someone planning a terrace should not have to scroll past thirty fencing jobs.

Town and Year

The town shows your operating area, the year shows the firm is active. Both create proximity and a sense of currency.

Briefly Described

Two to four sentences: what the task was, what the challenge was and which materials were used.

Usable on a Phone

The gallery is mostly viewed on a phone. Swiping, zooming and the path to an enquiry have to work effortlessly there.

Fast Despite Many Images

Images are delivered at suitable sizes and loaded only when needed. Otherwise visitors leave before they see anything.

How a Portfolio Gallery Has to Be Built

Filter First, Admire Second

A wall of images without structure overwhelms. Someone planning a natural stone terrace is looking for natural stone terraces — not a full tour of everything your firm offers. So every reference is assigned a trade and the gallery gets a filter bar above it. One tap on "paving" shows paving projects only, one tap on "ponds" shows water features only. The filters come from your actual trades, not from a generic list. Sorting by town or year is available as well, so prospects nearby see at once that you work in their corner. Which trades should lead is something we settle beforehand — the sector overview shows the typical focus areas.

  • Filter bar built from your real trades, not a standard list
  • Sorting by year so recent work appears at the top
  • Town details linked to your regional pages
  • Every project has its own address and can be shared individually
  • Trade: paving, terraces, ponds, fencing, tree care, grounds maintenance or a complete scheme
  • Town: the town or district, without street name and without house number
  • Year of completion, so currency stays visible
  • Task: what was to be created and what the client wanted
  • Challenge: sloping ground, heavy soil, narrow access, existing trees, a tight schedule
  • Scope: area, build time or materials used, as far as you wish to share
  • Two to five images per project, including at least one close-up detail

The Challenge Is the Most Interesting Sentence

"Terrace in Hildesheim, 40 square metres" is a caption. "Terrace on a slope, the 80-centimetre difference in level taken up by a dry stone wall" is a selling point. Sentences like that show a prospect that you can handle difficult situations — and almost every garden has one.

Before and After — Where It Is Honestly Possible

No format works as strongly in landscaping as the direct comparison. The mossy old path beside the new paving, the overgrown slope beside the finished terrace: the viewer sees in a moment what difference your work makes. The prerequisite is that a before image exists. So the starting photo belongs to site routine, not to the follow-up — take one from the same standpoint before the digger arrives, and take another from there at the end. Where no before image exists, none is staged. A project without a comparison simply appears as a single image in the gallery, and the before-and-after view stays reserved for projects where it can be evidenced.

ElementUsual landscaping galleryYour portfolio gallery
StructureAll images in one single gridFilterable by trade, sorted by year
DetailsFile name only, or no caption at allTrade, town, year, task and challenge
Before and afterMissing because the starting photo was forgottenPresent where the before image genuinely exists
Image qualityBacklight, rubble in the foreground, random cropsSelected, cropped and prepared for the web
Path to enquiryNo link between an image and the contact formUnder every project: "Something like this for you?"
Legal sideHouse numbers and people unchecked in the frameConsent obtained, people and house numbers avoided

Legally Sound: Consent, People, House Numbers

A private garden is a private place. Before images of a property are published, you need the client's consent — most simply as a short passage in the quotation or as a separate sheet at handover, with a note that consent can be withdrawn at any time. That is not bureaucracy but a matter of two minutes, and most clients agree readily once they are happy with the result. In addition: no identifiable people in the frame, no house numbers, no vehicle registration plates and no street signs that pinpoint the property. Naming the town or district is enough.

Consent in Writing

A short passage in the quotation or a sheet at handover is enough: use of the photos on the website and in documents, revocable at any time. We provide a text template you can reuse.

No Identifiable People

Neither clients nor neighbours nor your own crew in the frame without being asked. Team photos are taken separately and with the staff's agreement — and then shown prominently.

No Address Clues

House numbers, doorbell plates, registration plates and street signs stay out. A different crop usually solves it without any retouching.

A Factual Note

These points are practical orientation from project work and do not replace legal advice. In special situations — aerial photography, listed buildings or work for public authorities — please clarify publication case by case. How we handle data and consent on your website is described on the maintenance page.

Your Photos Are Still on Your Phone? That Is Exactly Where We Start.

Send us whatever you have. We will tell you honestly which projects suit the gallery and what is still missing.

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How Many Projects Are Enough at the Start?

The most common reason a gallery never goes live is the belief that it has to be complete. It does not. Six to eight properly documented projects beat thirty badly filed phone photos (project experience). What matters is the range: show at least one project per trade, plus one larger complete scheme that makes the scale of your work visible. Every filter is then backed by something and nobody lands on an empty selection. Everything else grows over time — each finished site adds material, and three or four new projects a year keep the gallery alive.

Two Routes to a Gallery Compared

Both firms took the same number of photos. The difference lies purely in the preparation.

Recommended

Six to eight documented projects

  • Every trade is backed by at least one project
  • Town, year and task appear with each project
  • Filters always lead to a result
  • Prospects ask about a specific project they saw
  • Takes roughly an afternoon of preparation

Thirty loose phone photos

  • No trade is recognisable, no filter is possible
  • Town and year are missing, currency stays unclear
  • Backlight, rubble and random crops side by side
  • Visitors scroll for a moment and close the page
  • It is available immediately, at least

From Phone Photos to a Finished Gallery

Typical Starting Points Around the Portfolio Gallery

Images only on the phone
Starting point
Several hundred unsorted site photos, none of them publicly visible.
Measure
Eight projects selected, ordered by trade and labelled with town, year and task.
Result
Prospects mention specific projects on first contact instead of only the square metre price.
The wrong enquiries
Starting point
Many very small jobs and enquiries from far outside the operating area.
Measure
Gallery focused on complete schemes and paving, town details added to every project.
Result
Enquiries match the range of services and the firm's radius more often.
No before images
Starting point
Only finished shots, so the change from the original state could not be conveyed.
Measure
A starting photo from the same standpoint introduced as fixed routine at every site start.
Result
After one season, several evidenced comparisons stand in the gallery.

Illustrative scenarios from typical project paths (project experience) — anonymised, without assuring particular results.

A Firm We Have Built For

We built the website for Viktor Waldbauer Garten- und Landschaftsbau in Nordstemmen. The firm works with sandstone slabs, builds terraces and cisterns and lays out complete garden schemes — precisely the range that a gallery structured by trade has to make visible. Further work and how a collaboration runs can be found under references; which projects suit your gallery is something we are happy to discuss in person.

Portfolio gallery included in the fixed price
Filters by trade and year
Consent properly documented
Images prepared for the web
Hosting and data in Germany
One dedicated contact

Frequently Asked Questions About the Portfolio Gallery

Three drafts to look through

Complete layout drafts for private gardens, grounds maintenance and tree care, each shown as a desktop and a mobile view. The businesses in them are fictitious.

Draft
Private gardens

Private garden site with service filter and before-after slider

A draft for a private garden business: six trades can be filtered by group, a slider fades between the original state and the finished garden, and the route from consultation through design and construction to handover has its own section. A further part answers from what area size a full crew makes sense and what happens in the first year after handover. The enquiry form asks for trade, location and area size.

Service filterBefore and afterBuild sequenceEnquiry form
Draft
Commercial grounds care

Grounds maintenance with annual cycle and records

A draft for commercial and municipal grounds maintenance: services appear as line items with interval, quantity and acceptance condition, three client profiles can be switched through, and the annual cycle opens month by month. A separate section shows which records go on file after a site visit, from the job report to the annual summary. Traffic safety duties and public tendering each get an explanatory part.

Schedule of servicesAnnual cycleSafety dutiesJob records
Draft
Tree care

Tree care with cutting periods and storm procedure

A draft for a tree care business: three approaches — crown care, crown bracing and felling — sit side by side on tabs, and the permitted cutting periods have their own section covering federal nature protection law, municipal tree bylaws and species protection. Six warning signs on the tree lead to the question of when an inspection makes sense. Storm damage is described as a four-step procedure, alongside standby hours, equipment and proof of qualification.

ApproachesCutting periodsWarning signsStorm procedure

Illustrative layout drafts. The businesses shown are fictitious; these are not client projects.

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