How I Stopped Overthinking Our Landscaping Website and Used Gardenqu Instead

I manage the website for a small landscaping company. We design beautiful gardens… but our old site looked more like a construction brochure than an outdoor oasis. Every time a client said, “We found you on Google, but your website photos don’t do you justice,” I knew it was time to rebuild.

Instead of coding everything from scratch again, I tried Gardenqu - Landscape & Gardening Elementor Template Kit and treated it like a ready-made front-end system for our marketing pages. Below is what the process looked like from my side as the site administrator.

Installing and Wiring Up Gardenqu

I started with a fresh WordPress + Elementor setup on a staging subdomain:

1. Installed Elementor (free + Pro in our case).
2. Installed the base theme recommended for Elementor (just a lightweight blank theme).
3. Imported the Gardenqu template kit via the Elementor Template Library / Kit import.

Once imported, I suddenly had:

• A complete home layout tailored to landscaping and gardening services
• Service, About, Portfolio, Blog, and Contact page templates
• Global fonts and colors already tuned for a “green & natural” aesthetic

No PHP edits, no wrestling with theme options. Just clean, structured templates that I could plug our content into.

Configuration: Turning the Demo into “Our” Brand

Global Styles

Gardenqu ships with a design system already in place. I only had to touch a few knobs:

• Primary color: set to our brand green.
• Accent color: a soft earthy tone for buttons and badges.

• Typography:

  • Headings → modern, slightly bold sans-serif
  • Body text → neutral, easy-to-read font

Because Gardenqu leans on Elementor’s global styles, updating these instantly changed:

• Buttons and CTAs
• Icons and section dividers
• Headings and paragraph text across all templates

One pass, whole site aligned.

Navigation and Structure

I rebuilt the menu to match how our customers think:

• Home
• Services
• Projects
• About
• Blog
• Contact / Get a Quote

Gardenqu’s header templates already supported a CTA button, so I wired that straight to our quote form. On mobile, the header collapses nicely and still keeps the CTA visible, which is important when someone is browsing from a backyard on their phone.

Feature Walkthrough: How Gardenqu Helps Day to Day

Services Pages

The kit includes well-designed service sections: icons, small illustrations, and feature lists that feel made for landscaping:

• Garden design
• Lawn care & maintenance
• Irrigation systems
• Patio & hardscape work

For each service, I duplicated the template page and filled in:

• Short intro (what we actually do)
• Process steps (consult → design → installation → care)
• Benefits and FAQs
• A small gallery of relevant work

No custom layout work, just content.

Projects / Portfolio

This was the big win. Gardenqu comes with project grid and single-project templates:

• The project grid shows featured images, location, and type (backyard, rooftop, commercial, etc.).
• The project detail page lets me combine before/after photos, short description, plant palette, and a simple “results” section.

I can tag projects by style (modern, cottage, tropical) or size, and use those tags to filter in the grid. That gives prospects a quick way to find gardens similar to what they want.

Home Page

The default home layout from Gardenqu is surprisingly close to what I would have designed myself:

• Hero section with headline, subhead, and CTA (“Request a site visit”)
• Services overview cards
• Highlighted projects slider
• Why-choose-us section (experience, team, guarantees)
• Testimonials
• Final CTA with a simple lead form

I mainly re-ordered sections and replaced demo images with our own photos. The spacing and hierarchy were already taken care of.

As the person who has to maintain the site long term, I appreciate that Gardenqu feels more like a structured component library than a monolithic “theme prison.” It let me ship a fresh, coherent gardening website in days instead of weeks, and now I can focus on incremental improvements rather than constant redesign.