Guide
Best Landscapers in Ottawa (2026): 10 Ranked by Review Volume
Ranked on Google review counts, each shown with the date it was measured. Last reviewed August 2026.
Most "best landscapers" lists do not say how they were ordered, which makes them impossible to check. This one is ranked by a single number you can verify yourself: how many Google reviews each company's profile carries. The rating sits next to it, the method is stated below, and nobody paid to be here.
Short answer
Ranked by Google review volume as measured on 19 August 2026, the 10 Ottawa landscaping and lawn care companies carrying the most reviews are TruGreen Lawn Care (576 reviews), The Hedge Barber (412 reviews) and Green Works Contracting Inc. (220 reviews), followed by Best Green Hedges, Ottawa Lawn Salon, Maki's Mowing and More, Empire Deck + Interlock, Weeping Willow Landscape, Ottawa Interlock Repair, TerrEntretien - Paysagement et Déneigement. Only claimed Google Business Profiles whose primary Google category is a landscaping or lawn care category, within 30 km of downtown Ottawa, carrying at least 20 reviews were considered, and no business paid to appear.
How this list was built
- The candidate set: claimed Google Business Profiles whose primary category is a landscaping or lawn care category, within 30 km of downtown Ottawa, carrying at least 20 reviews. 185 profiles came back and 120 met that bar. Not our own listings — 8 of the 10 below are not listed in this directory, and they are named anyway.
- The order: number of Google reviews, highest first, on the figure shown beside each name. Not the star rating. A 5.0 from one review is not evidence, and sorting on rating would put it above a company with 576 reviews.
- This pool mixes four different trades, and that is disclosed rather than hidden. Google files landscapers, landscape designers, landscape architects and lawn care services next to each other, and all four are represented below. A fertiliser franchise and an interlock crew are not the same business, so each row names what that company's primary category actually is. Two landscaping supply stores were dropped outright: they sell stone over a counter rather than laying it.
- Measured: the candidate pool was pulled 19 August 2026. Where a company is also listed in this directory, the figure here is the one on its listing, carrying the date that listing was last checked — so the number you read here and the number one click away cannot disagree. Review counts move, so the date is part of the figure.
- What this is not: we have not hired, tested or inspected any company here, and nothing on this page is an endorsement. It ranks how much public feedback exists, which is a different thing from quality.
- Nobody paid: no placement on this page is or has been sold. No business pays for a listing or a position anywhere on this site. How listings are chosen is on the methodology page.
Ottawa landscapers by review volume
- 01
TruGreen Lawn Care
4.2 from 576 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in Ottawa.
The Ottawa profile of a national lawn-care franchise. Its primary category is lawn care rather than landscaping, and it carries the lowest rating of the ten here.
Not listed in this directory.
- 02
The Hedge Barber
4.9 from 412 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in the Ottawa area.
Its primary Google category is landscape architect rather than landscaper, and the profile states no municipality.
Not listed in this directory.
- 03
Green Works Contracting Inc.
4.8 from 220 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in Gloucester.
Based in Gloucester, and lists landscape design alongside contracting.
- 04
Best Green Hedges
5.0 from 214 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in North Gower.
Based in North Gower, and also lists tree service.
- 05
Ottawa Lawn Salon
4.7 from 196 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in Ottawa.
Runs two Google profiles, folded here into one row on the larger. Its primary category is lawn care rather than landscaping, and it also lists property maintenance.
Not listed in this directory.
- 06
Maki's Mowing and More
4.9 from 186 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in Kanata.
Based in Kanata. Primary category is lawn care, with gardening and landscaping listed alongside it.
Not listed in this directory.
- 07
Empire Deck + Interlock
4.6 from 174 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in Ottawa.
Primary category is landscape designer, and it also lists deck building and construction, so hardscaping rather than planting is the centre of the business.
Not listed in this directory.
- 08
Weeping Willow Landscape
4.9 from 171 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in Gatineau.
Based in Gatineau, inside this page's search radius, and lists paving alongside landscape design.
Not listed in this directory.
- 09
Ottawa Interlock Repair
4.9 from 154 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in the Ottawa area.
Interlock repair rather than full landscape installation, judging by the trading name, and its profile states no municipality.
Not listed in this directory.
- 10
TerrEntretien - Paysagement et Déneigement
4.6 from 153 Google reviews, measured 19 August 2026. Based in Gatineau.
A Gatineau company operating in French, listing landscape design and lawn care, and doing snow clearing in the winter half of the year.
Not listed in this directory.
"Landscaper" is four different businesses
This is the thing to sort out before you call anyone, and it is why the list above mixes companies that look interchangeable and are not.
- Lawn care is fertiliser, weed control, aeration and mowing on a seasonal contract. Often a franchise, often the highest review counts, and completely irrelevant if you want a patio.
- Landscape design and architecture is the drawing and the plant selection. Some design-only firms hand you a plan and you hire the build separately.
- Hardscaping is interlock, retaining walls, steps and paving. This is where the money and the risk are, and it is the part the City now licenses.
- Property maintenance is the year-round contract, usually bundled with snow clearing over the winter.
The City licence most pages do not mention
Since 1 March 2026, hardscaping contractors working in Ottawa must hold a municipal licence. If your project involves interlock, retaining walls or paving, ask for it, and ask before the deposit rather than after. Our Ottawa landscaping cost guide carries the by-law reference alongside what the work costs across several published Ottawa price lists that disagree with each other.
What actually decides the bill in Ottawa
- Base depth is the whole job on interlock. In a freeze-thaw climate the part you cannot see is what decides whether the patio is flat in five years. Get the excavation depth and the base material stated in the quote, because it is the easiest thing to trim and the most expensive to redo.
- Access decides the labour. A back yard reachable only through a narrow side gate means everything moves by wheelbarrow, and that is a different price from a site a machine can reach.
- Disposal is a real line item. Excavated soil and old material has to go somewhere, and it is frequently quoted separately or not at all.
- The season is short and it books out.Ottawa's build window is narrow. Quotes in February for June work get better attention than quotes in June.
How to use a list like this without getting burned
Review volume tells you a company has been around and that a lot of people have had an opinion. On this page it also tells you something about which business you are looking at, because the lawn care franchises accumulate reviews far faster than a crew doing six interlock jobs a season. Shortlist by the kind of work first, then by the numbers.
Then get a written quote naming the base depth, the materials, disposal, the City hardscaping licence where it applies, and what happens if the ground settles. Compare on that basis rather than on a square-foot rate, which our cost guide found varies by a factor of five across published Ottawa price lists.
Common questions
- Who is the best landscaper in Ottawa?
- There is no single answer, and the honest complication is that "landscaper" covers several different businesses. On the measure used here, the number of Google reviews behind a rating, TruGreen Lawn Care leads with 576 Google reviews at 4.2 as of 19 August 2026. Whether that company is right for you depends heavily on whether you want lawn care, planting design, or interlock and retaining walls — they are not the same trade.
- Do Ottawa landscapers need a licence?
- For hardscaping, yes, and this is new. Ottawa has required hardscaping contractors to hold a municipal licence since 1 March 2026. Planting and lawn care are a different matter, but if your project involves interlock, retaining walls or paving, ask for the City licence. Most ranking pages about Ottawa landscapers do not mention it at all.
- How is this list ranked?
- By the number of Google reviews each company's profile carries, highest first, among claimed profiles whose primary Google category is a landscaping or lawn care category, within 30 km of downtown Ottawa, with at least 20 reviews. 185 profiles came back and 120 met that bar once retailers were removed. The candidate pool was measured on 19 August 2026. It ranks how much public evidence exists about a company, not the quality of its work.
- Why is a lawn care company at the top of a landscaping list?
- Because Google's categories put them in the same neighbourhood and a reader searching for 'best landscapers in Ottawa' usually means all of it. This pool mixes landscapers, landscape designers, landscape architects and lawn care services, and they are genuinely different businesses. Rather than hide that, each row names what that company's primary category actually is, so you can skip the ones that do not do your kind of work.
- Why rank by review count instead of by star rating?
- Because a 5.0 from one review is not evidence. Sorting by rating would put a brand new profile above a company with 576 reviews. It also cuts the other way here: the company with the most reviews on this page carries the lowest rating of the ten, which is exactly the kind of thing you should see rather than have averaged away.
- Have you used these companies?
- No. We have not hired, tested or inspected any company on this page, and nothing here is an endorsement. This page ranks public review data with the method stated so you can check it yourself.
- Can a company pay to appear on this list?
- No. The order is the stated method applied to public data, and no placement on this page is or has been sold. Nothing anywhere on this site is sold either — no business pays for its listing or its position.
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