About Landscape Contractor

Landscape Contractor

Overview

Landscape Contractor is an Australian trade magazine for the landscaping industry, published in print and online at landscapecontractor.com.au. It serves professional landscapers and landscape contractors — businesses working across landscape construction, maintenance, design support and grounds care — with industry news, product reviews, machinery test drives, technical editorial and in-depth reports on business development. Media directories list the title in both digital and print formats, with a print subscription offered. It is published by Prime Creative Media, the Melbourne-based business-to-business publisher, from Melbourne, Victoria.

The magazine describes itself — in its own billing, carried on its LinkedIn profile — as "the largest, most authoritative landscaping trade publication in the Pacific region". That is the publisher's characterisation rather than an independently audited ranking, but the title's longevity and the density of its daily online news file support its position as the sector's dedicated trade voice: its website carries a deep archive organised by topic, including an updates stream running to more than one hundred pages and specialist coverage of mowers and landscape machinery, landscape products, technology and industry associations.

History

Landscape Contractor's LinkedIn profile records its founding in 1997, making it one of the longer-running titles in the Prime Creative Media stable. The magazine has, in its own words, "grown and developed in step with the industry in general" — a description it applies to its development from a print trade title into a combined print and digital service.

The title is published today by Prime Creative Media, the publishing group built up in Melbourne from 2000 and expanded substantially in December 2015, when it acquired the industrial, mining, manufacturing and agricultural portfolio of Cirrus Media — the former Reed Business Information Australia. Landscape Contractor appears among Prime Creative Media's affiliated titles, with its headquarters listed as Docklands, Victoria, in the publisher's home city of Melbourne, and third-party media directories likewise list Prime Creative Media as its publisher. Its LinkedIn profile gives the title a small dedicated team of two to ten employees, consistent with Prime Creative Media's model of producing trade titles with in-house journalists supported by the group's shared publishing, events and marketing operations.

Content and Coverage

The print magazine offers test drives, industry news, product reviews, technical editorial and in-depth reports on business development for landscaping professionals, and the website extends that remit into a daily news service. Coverage is organised into categories including the landscaping industry, landscaping innovations, landscape products — pavers, paints, plant control and more — mowers, skid steers and landscape machinery, test drives and video test drives, technology, property maintenance, and shows and upcoming events.

The site's 2026 coverage shows the range. It reported the Landscape Industries Association of WA's Southwest Forum 2026 and the countdown to the 2026 TLA Landscape Expo; Arbwest's polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB) industry information day for LIAWA members; and the magazine's own appointment as media partner of a new Greenscapes + Green Expo. Equipment coverage is a strength: the shift to electric and battery machinery on worksites, STIHL's ALLPRO battery platform, JCB's fully electric 19C-1E mini excavator, autonomous and robotic mowers from suppliers such as Kress and RC Mowers, Masport's zero-turn and self-propelled mower ranges, and test drives of machines such as the Hustler X-ONE, with video test drives published alongside written reviews. Business and workforce coverage includes research on what keeps apprentices in training, personal accident and illness insurance for sole operators, New South Wales requirements for monitoring PFAS in landfill and sewage treatment wastewater taking effect from October 2026, and the work of state associations including Landscaping Victoria and Master Landscapers of South Australia.

Events coverage is part of the service: the countdown to the 2026 TLA Landscape Expo, the LIAWA Southwest Forum 2026 and the industry information days run by state associations are trailed and reported for contractor readers planning their training and purchasing calendars.

The website also carries a marketplace of new and used landscaping machinery — zero-turn and ride-on mowers, chippers and mulchers — listed by dealers and sellers across Australia, extending the title's role from publisher to industry noticeboard.

The magazine's association coverage is a defining feature. It follows the state industry bodies closely — Landscaping Victoria's program for the year ahead, Master Landscapers of South Australia's member seminars and its commentary on safety standards, and the Landscaping Association's calls for member input on ACT regulation — and it covers the skills pipeline, from apprenticeship retention research to the 2025 WorldSkills Australia National Championships in Brisbane and the national training squad preparing for the Shanghai 2026 competition. Product and supplier stories run from playground-marking services for schools to recycled-rubber surfacing used by sports-surface builders, giving contractor readers a view of adjacent services they can add to their own businesses.

Audience and Reach

Landscape Contractor is written for landscaping professionals: contractors, landscape construction and maintenance businesses, and the suppliers who sell machinery, materials and services to them. Its LinkedIn page had 986 followers when checked in October 2026, and the media directory Feedspot records approximately 2,700 Facebook followers for the title; those social figures are directory and platform data, reproduced here as such. No current audited circulation figure for the magazine is published, and none is claimed here; the description of the title as the largest landscaping trade publication in the Pacific region is its own promotional billing, presented in this profile as an attributed claim rather than a verified market position.

Digital Presence

The Landscape Contractor website is actively maintained, publishing new material daily; in the period reviewed, its online news file carried items dated through late September and into October 2026, with the archive extending back through years of daily coverage — its updates category alone runs to 115 pages, and its landscaping innovations archive to 25 pages, a depth that reflects the title's long publishing history. The site also carries practical business content beyond the trade's tools and plants: auditable WHS compliance for property and facilities managers, the energy-efficiency divide affecting renters, and the changing rules for branded business text messaging all appeared in its 2026 coverage. The site's 2026 output is bylined predominantly to Tom Foster, whose author archive runs from equipment test drives and product launches to association and training news, alongside staff-writer and contributor items. The title maintains its LinkedIn presence as "Landscape Contractor magazine", promotes subscriptions and its print edition through the website, and carries the machinery marketplace on the same domain.

Ownership and Organisation

Landscape Contractor is published by Prime Creative Media, the Melbourne business-to-business media and events company led by chief executive John Murphy, with Christine Clancy as chief operating officer. The company describes itself as Australia's leading B2B publisher — its own characterisation — with a portfolio spanning infrastructure, resources, construction, transport, manufacturing and waste, and its magazines are designed and printed in Victoria. Within that portfolio, Landscape Contractor is the group's landscaping title, produced from Docklands in Melbourne with a small dedicated editorial team drawing on the publisher's shared resources.

Contact and Availability

Landscape Contractor is published from Melbourne, Victoria, and is available in print on subscription and online at landscapecontractor.com.au, where readers can browse the daily news file, test drives and product coverage, and access the machinery marketplace. Subscription, advertising and editorial enquiries are handled through the website and through Prime Creative Media's Melbourne head office. In line with this directory's policy, the public business email field for this listing is left empty.