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Texture Landscapes

Landscape architect · Selwyn District East, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 252 Christchurch architects.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Texture Landscapes

Landscape architect · Selwyn District East, Christchurch

Where you stand#107of 252 architects
Overall health5.8/10across the eight areas

Going well

05Facebook page9.807Google search and traffic9.504Listings and social6.2

Where we can help

01Google listing5.102Reviews3.508Opening hours2.703Map positions2.406Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Texture Landscapes is a landscape architecture and landscaping practice based in Prebbleton, Christchurch. They combine architectural garden design and plant-focused landscaping, offering new-build garden plans and full re-imaginations. The practice emphasises plant selection and practical considerations like light, water and soil to create cohesive outdoor spaces suited to local conditions.

Texture Landscapes is a landscape architecture and landscaping practice located in Prebbleton, Christchurch. The website identifies the firm as providing landscape architecture and landscaping services under the Texture Plants, Landscapes, Lush Lawns grouping, positioning itself to work on garden and outdoor projects in the Christchurch area.

Services described include architectural new-build garden designs and complete re-imaginations of outdoor spaces. The site content highlights plant-focused offerings, including plant collections, light requirements, water needs, growing and climate tolerance information, and special traits for plant selection. The firm lists practical considerations such as maintenance and soil conditions as part of its planning resources.

The online material places a clear emphasis on plants and planting systems alongside landscape design, with references to collections and Modscene planters. Information on light, water and soil suggests a detailed approach to choosing species and arranging planting for local conditions rather than a solely hardscape-focused service.

Locally, Texture Landscapes is presented as a Prebbleton-based option for Christchurch clients seeking landscape architectural input that integrates planting detail and practical site considerations. The combination of new-build design and complete landscape reworking, together with plant-specification resources, is presented as the practice's distinguishing local offering.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Texture Landscapes shows a mixed health on Google Business listing with a score of 5.3 out of 10. The listing has important basics in place (claimed, open status, phone, website link, and title), but the description is weak and photos are below peers. Focusing on the listing description and adding more quality photos will support better engagement with local customers.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
  • 2
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Landscape architect · Selwyn District East2
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Texture Landscapes shows a below-average health score of 3.2 out of 10 on Google reviews, indicating weaker overall performance compared with local peers. The strongest actionable insight is to start building trust by collecting more reviews and engaging with customers who leave feedback. A rapid focus on replying to reviews will also improve perceived responsiveness.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
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    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
  • 3
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Texture Landscapes shows a low overall health in Google Maps search at 2.0 out of 10, with limited visibility across city-wide queries. The top opportunities focus on improving the aggregate score and ensuring the suburb/borough listing matches the queried spelling to boost local visibility.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility in your own suburbWe are not seeing you in Maps searches in your own suburb, which is the search a customer standing a street away actually makes.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
2.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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2Seen in 4 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Design Me a Garden4.8 ★ (18) · Landscape architect
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Diamond Landscapes Limited5.0 ★ (20) · Landscape architect
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Lagoon Landscaping4.3 ★ (6) · Landscape architect
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Sullivan Suzanne Landscape Design5.0 ★ (1) · Landscape architect
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Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #193 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Texture Landscapes shows overall health in the above-average range with a health score of 6.7 out of 10, indicating solid online presence though room for improvement. Key strengths are strong, active profiles on Instagram and Facebook, which support trust and visibility among local customers. Two important insights are the lack of a TikTok and weak LinkedIn activity that limit reach to younger audiences and professional networks.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
  • 3
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
18 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
6.2Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookTexturePlantsTexture Landscapes | Facebook✓
InstagramtextureplantsTexture Landscapes | Instagram✓
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour recommendation count is one of the deeper collections in this market, and enough of it is written by other people that the page does some of the arguing for you.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here. Every check we run here is at its best.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 3 of them.
9.8Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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TexturePlants
7.6K followers ✓
The Architect's Choice From dirt to dreams, we create a sanctuary that matches your lifestyle, personality and soul. Every plant has been lovingly tended from propagation, every landscape we design is...
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★ 16 reviews · recommended ✓
🌐 textureplants.co.nz✓
☎ +64 3-349 7296
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your website

Texture Landscapes shows a solid on-page SEO health for its homepage, with a clear H1, a concise SEO-friendly URL and a valid favicon. The overall health score is 4.8 out of 10, indicating room for improvement. The most impactful findings are meta description length and title tag length, which should align with best practices for better click-through and relevance.

Strengths

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    Separate sites linking to youMore separate websites link to you than almost any business in this market - a spread built over years that a competitor cannot buy their way into.
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    The shape of your link profileYour links come from about as wide a range of sites as anything in this market, and the mix of link types looks entirely natural.
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    Domain Age ScoreYour domain has been registered longer than almost any business in this market.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
  • 2
    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
  • 3
    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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✓Separate sites linking to you
✓The shape of your link profile
1Meta description
2Page title
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How people find you on Google

Texture Landscapes shows a very strong Website Traffic health, with a 9.5/10 score indicating excellent performance. The most important findings are high organic traffic value and solid local organic rankings, indicating the site attracts valuable visitors and ranks well. Action remains in paid channels to complement organic strength.

Strengths

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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws more visitors from search than almost any business in this market - a stream of enquiries arriving at no cost per visit.
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    Search terms you rank forYour site appears for more search terms than almost any business in this market, so there are more ways to find you than to find anyone else here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
  • 2
    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
  • 3
    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 5 of them.
9.5Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Texture LandscapesNot in these results✓
✓About 1,921 visits a month from search, across 432 searches
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Your hours against demand

Texture Landscapes shows good alignment with weekday lunchtime demand, open during several midday peaks in Prebbleton. Notable strong hours are Wednesday 11am-12pm, Tuesday 12pm and Thursday 12-1pm. However, several high-demand weekend hours-especially Saturday 11am-2pm and Sunday 12pm-are missed opportunities. No open hours fall in low-demand periods, so the schedule is efficient but could consider limited Saturday midday openings to capture peak local interest.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
2.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Hours 1
Monday8am-5pm
Tuesday8am-5pm
Wednesday8am-5pm
Thursday8am-5pm
Friday8am-3pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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The next step

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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#107of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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