Landscaping And Gardening Service Market Size & Share Analysis - Growth Trends and Forecast (2027 - 2032)

Market Trends and Insights

Aging-in-place demand boosts residential landscaping

Keeping a home's outdoor spaces usable can require paid assistance when older residents do not perform yard work themselves. In a 2025 US survey, 34% of 250 adults aged 50 or older who self-identified as solo-agers reported paid assistance with lawn and yard care. The unweighted sample was a younger and wealthier subset of the wider solo-ager population. That buyer profile points providers toward paid yard-care services for solo-ager households already able to afford practical help with their residence.

Corporate net-zero commitments spur green campuses

A corporate campus can turn a sustainability objective into a landscape assignment spanning several parts of the site. BrightView installed green roof systems, irrigation infrastructure, sod, mulch, and thousands of plants at Ford Motor Company's headquarters campus in Dearborn, Michigan. The headquarters opened in November 2025. The campus plan called for 12 acres of greenspace, with broader work scheduled through 2027. The sustainability emphasis in the campus design thus reached the landscape provider as a multi-component installation covering roofs, irrigation, turf, and plantings.

Increasing demand for outdoor aesthetics and recreational spaces

Buyers seeking recreational outdoor space can commission a landscape around a specific use, making the design brief commercially consequential. In Houzz's 2026 US survey, the share of renovating homeowners hiring landscape contractors rose 5 percentage points to 26% compared with 2024. The survey covered 1,191 US Houzz users planning, undertaking, or recently completing outdoor renovations and ran from April 25 to May 6, 2026. A service proposal can connect the desired appearance with decisions about planting, circulation, and the area reserved for activity. With more surveyed homeowners hiring landscape contractors, translating a recreational brief into a buildable layout offers a concrete route to winning that work.

Rising urbanization and infrastructure development

Urban growth creates demand for landscape work when public buyers translate green-space needs into commissioned planting. The United Nations estimated that cities held 45% of the world's population in 2025, up from 20% in 1950.^[1] Its city definition requires at least 50,000 residents and 1,500 people per square kilometer. In December 2025, Chicago Park District commissioners authorized districtwide planting and landscaping services from Christy Webber & Company, with work subject to written contract execution. The authorization provided an initial 2-year term from execution and 3 optional one-year extensions. For urban landscape providers, the opportunity is converting a public-space network into defined planting assignments that can be delivered across multiple sites.

Acute shortage of skilled horticultural labor

A shortage of trained entrants limits how quickly landscape contractors can add crews for work requiring horticultural judgment. An interim Australian landscaping review reported that consultations from October 2025 to April 2026 identified skills shortages, including insufficient entrants and career-pathway problems.^[2] The Landscape Institute's 2026 research also attributed 4 in 5 hard-to-fill vacancies in the wider UK landscape sector to skills shortages. For service operators, adding headcount cannot fully resolve a gap in the skills needed to direct and complete landscape work. An inexperienced crew may require supervision from the same limited pool of qualified staff needed on other assignments. This creates a capacity constraint that can lengthen delivery schedules even when customers are ready to commission work.

High installation and maintenance costs

Material-intensive installation exposes landscape contractors to costs that must be recovered through the service invoice. In its July 2026 survey, Aspire found rising material and equipment costs among US commercial landscape businesses.^[3] For installation providers, absorbing those expenses can weaken the return from accepting work, while passing them through can make a proposed landscape more expensive for the customer. Maintenance providers face the same cost-recovery decision where their work requires equipment or replacement materials. Direct purchasing from suppliers, which Aspire said more landscape businesses were adopting, may limit exposure to price volatility, but leaves contractors carrying the material and equipment costs of each assignment.

*Our forecasts treat driver/restraint impacts as directional, not additive. The impact forecasts reflect baseline growth, mix effects, and variable interactions.

Landscaping And Gardening Service Market Segment Analysis

Landscape and garden maintenance accounted for a 40.89% share of the landscaping and gardening service market size in 2026. BrightView's US commercial landscape maintenance revenue reached USD 1.22 billion in the 9 months ended June 30, 2026. That was up 1.3% from USD 1.2 billion in the same 2025 period. For a provider, routine care generates successive assignments from an existing landscape, so maintenance revenue continues without a new installation to win each time.

Landscape and garden enhancements represent the fastest-growing segment, with a forecast CAGR of 8.55% over 2027-2032. The Home Improvement Research Institute found that contractors alone completed 66% of US mid-to-large yard, garden, and outdoor projects in 2025, while 21% combined contractor and do-it-yourself work. The surveyed households spent more than USD 5,000 on their projects. Such projects give an enhancement contractor a way to sell coordination and execution as part of the improvement, alongside the physical landscape work. Mixed contractor and do-it-yourself delivery creates a reason to define a professional work package that fits within the homeowner's wider project.

Residential customers represented a 50.75% landscaping and gardening service market share in 2026. A homeowner can commission a job at the level of a single garden, allowing the provider to define responsibilities around that property's boundaries and intended use. An offer can then be tailored to a particular balance of retained planting, changes in layout, and the care needed after the work is finished. In Houzz's 2026 US survey of Houzz users planning, undertaking, or recently completing outdoor renovations, 71% hired a professional, up from 65% in 2024. Rising professional involvement in household outdoor renovations puts a contractor's ability to scope work around a single property at the center of residential demand.

Commercial customers form the fastest-growing segment, with a forecast CAGR of 7.85% over 2027-2032. BrightView's US commercial landscaping revenue in its Maintenance Services segment rose 2.3%, or USD 11.7 million, in the quarter ended June 30, 2026, versus the corresponding 2025 quarter. The company attributed the increase to contract revenue and, to a lesser extent, ancillary services. Contract revenue creates a different growth channel from an isolated installation project, because an account can support landscape services over a defined service period.

Geography Analysis

North America Landscaping And Gardening Service Market

North America held a 39.31% share of the landscaping and gardening service market size in 2026, making it the largest geography. United Land Services, backed by Centre Partners and LP First Capital, completed 4 US acquisitions of landscaping and related service businesses in 2025. H&O Grounds added United Land Services' first Louisiana branch, while Wrightsville Beach Landscaping supplemented the platform's North Carolina presence. The commercial value lies in connecting a larger ownership platform with local field delivery, because the acquired landscape operations give the buyer established branch capacity through which to extend service coverage.

Asia-Pacific Landscaping And Gardening Service Market

Asia-Pacific is the fastest-growing geography, with a forecast CAGR of 7.6% over 2027-2032. Singapore's National Parks Board awarded integrated landscape services for Changi, the Tourist Corridor, and Katong, with a service period from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2029. The 3-year agreement includes an option to extend for up to 3 years. A contract spanning several zones and multiple years creates an opening for providers that can coordinate landscape work across a public buyer's service area. The award creates a defined initial service horizon, while the optional extension leaves further participation dependent on the public buyer's decision.

In South America, Brazil's Saquarema contracted RPX Comercial e Serviços Ltda. on July 8, 2025, for 12 months of urban landscaping, garden maintenance, supplies, and planting seedlings. Europe's policy framework includes European Union member-state duties for no net loss in total national urban green space and tree canopy by 2030, followed by increases. In the Middle East, Riyadh Municipality in Saudi Arabia opened 87 parks during the 3 years to March 15, 2025, taking the capital's total above 700. In Africa, Cape Town's tender closing February 23, 2026, sought gardening and cleaning for community and health facilities and owned or leased public spaces, with functions determined by site need. Brazil's contract, the EU member-state duty, Riyadh's park estate, and Cape Town's site-specific tender point to local scoping rather than one service template for suppliers.

Regulatory Framework and Outlook

The comparison covers selected jurisdictions from the perspective of landscape service contractors undertaking the regulated activity in each country. Pesticide application, urban landscape construction, and irrigation face different qualification, documentation, and water-access obligations. Adding pesticide application brings certification or supervised-use conditions for restricted-use ornamental and turf pesticides in the United States and professional-use pesticides in the United Kingdom. Brazilian companies applying pesticides for third parties must keep training and application records, while Saudi Arabia's updated rule classifies non-efficient urban irrigation as a violation from March 21, 2027.

US and UK pesticide qualifications support Medium and No change, with the planned UK code update reflecting existing standards, while Egypt's well licensing supports Medium and its non-agricultural well-water fee decree scheduled for issuance by July 2027 supports Hardening. China's High and No change reflect the April 2017 abolition of enterprise qualification approvals alongside contractor capability requirements and acceptance supervised by local greening authorities or their delegates under separate construction rules. Brazil's Medium and No change reflect Law 14.785's training and application records for third-party pesticide applicators and the Ministry of Agriculture's guidance that Decree 4,074/2002 applies where compatible until the law is regulated. Saudi Arabia's Medium and No change reflect its Water Sources and Uses Code (effective May 23, 2025) and updated water-efficiency regulation (published August 14, 2026, effective March 21, 2027), which retains the 2025 violation for non-efficient urban irrigation.

Value Chain Stages

The value chain compares how design, plant supply, installation, maintenance, and subsequent improvements contribute to a landscape service job. Valley Growers Nursery & Landscape, Inc. combines a Pacific Northwest native wholesale nursery with landscape contracting in Oregon and Washington, illustrating that supply and service roles can sit within one business. The Davey Nursery supplies specimen trees through wholesale and retail channels, alongside The Davey Tree Expert Company's separate commercial grounds-service activities. These structures create opportunities to coordinate successive stages while retaining distinct sources of supplier earnings.

Recurring grounds work and later enhancements offer separate earnings opportunities after the initial installation. Combining them gives a service provider a way to extend its commercial role through an existing site's life, while a nursery supplier earns from the plants supplied to that work. In its fiscal 2025 annual report, BrightView described recurring annual landscape maintenance contracts typically lasting 1 to 3 years and generally cancellable by customers on 30 to 90 days' notice. A provider capturing the maintenance handover earns continuing fees only while it retains the account.

Key Opportunities for Market Participants

The opportunities compare 3 dated US municipal solicitations for planter services, public works landscaping, and landscape architecture within an engineering assignment. Their defined service scopes give providers specific assignments against which to assess existing delivery capacity. Providers with these capabilities can choose between delivering a defined landscape service and joining a broader design team, with the commercial proposition depending on the work each city is buying.

Municipal procurement of landscape work with a bounded scope is the central opening illustrated by these notices. Responding requires enough delivery capacity and coordination to take on the specified assignment within the procurement timetable. With the 3 submissions falling due between November 2 and November 12, 2026, the opening favors operators whose crews, supervision, or design resources are already organized.