Supplier directory

Four accounts cover almost every residential job in Perth: a landscape supply yard for soil, mulch, sand, aggregate and limestone blocks; a hardscape supplier for pavers and retaining; a reticulation shop; and a plant source. Open them near where you actually work, not near where you live — a forty-minute tow each way is a day a week gone by Friday.

What a trade account actually gets you

Nobody in Perth publishes their trade terms, so you have to ring. What you are asking for is some combination of five things.

What you’re asking for	Why it matters
Trade pricing off retail	The margin on materials is a real part of the job margin
30-day terms	You buy materials before the client pays the progress claim. Terms are cash flow, not a discount
A named contact	Someone who will tell you the truth about stock, and hold a pallet
Phone or app ordering with site delivery	Ordering from the ute at 6:30am instead of queueing at the counter
Returns on unopened stock	Take-offs are estimates. Somewhere to send the spare pavers

Expect to provide an ABN, and for a credit account, a credit application with trade references. Some suppliers are account-only in any case: Benara will not even show you a price until you sign in. Others run a lighter scheme — Soils Aint Soils runs a Trade Login and a “Trade Discount Membership” you apply for through the yard. Reece offers cash or credit accounts with “personalised trade pricing”. None of them publish the numbers, so treat any quoted discount as negotiable and revisit it once you have twelve months of spend behind you.

Bulk versus bagged

Bulk is cheaper per unit by a wide margin and is how the trade buys. Bagged exists for two reasons only: no truck access, and top-ups.

	Bulk	Bagged
Sold by	The cubic metre	Usually 25 L bags
Conversion	1 m³ = 1,000 L	40 × 25 L bags = 1 m³
Delivery	Tip truck, one trip, priced by zone	Palletised or in the ute
Best for	Anything over about half a cube	Access-restricted sites, patching, potting

Do your take-off in cubic metres and order in cubic metres. “A trailer load” is not a unit and no yard will price against it.

Order the delivery before you order the product. The access envelope is what kills bookings. Soils Aint Soils’ delivery page publishes the numbers to plan around: the 9-tonne tipper is 7 m long and needs 3.3 m of width including mirrors, sits 3.7 m high, and needs 9 to 10 m of clearance when it tips. That last figure rules out any verge under powerlines or a mature street tree. They give you a delivery day, not a time, add a 10% fuel charge, and if the driver arrives and cannot tip where you said, the load goes back to the yard and you still pay the freight.

Landscape supply yards

Supplier	Where	Notes
Soils Aint Soils	Neerabup, Balcatta and Canning Vale	Open 7 days, 6:30am–5pm Mon–Sat. Soils, mulches, sands, gravels, limestone blocks, cement. Same-day metro delivery, trade login, free 2-hour trailer hire
Green Life Soil Co	166 Wilson Road, Middle Swan	Publishes per-m³ prices online. Named blends rather than generic “garden mix”. Certified organic inputs
Richgro	203 Acourt Road, Jandakot	WA manufacturer of soils, mixes and fertilisers, with a separate landscape and commercial pathway

Plants

Perth splits three ways, and buying from the wrong one is the most common costing error on a planting schedule.

• Wholesale, trade-only. Benara Nurseries, trademarts at Carabooda (north) and Forrestdale (south). Tubestock through to advanced trees, plus turf and pottery. Account required, pricing behind a login.
• Local-provenance natives. Apace WA in North Fremantle grows Swan Coastal Plain and Darling Range species — the specific claim councils want on revegetation conditions. Walk-in retail up to 200 plants; larger orders go through wholesale. Trillion Trees at Hazelmere grows over 200,000 native seedlings a year and is usually the cheapest source of bulk tubestock.
• Retail garden centres. For client selection days and short-order top-ups. Dawson’s has four Perth stores. Never price a schedule off retail.

Spec the species first from Kings Park’s plant guides, then ask a wholesaler what they hold. To find growers this page has missed, use the Greenlife Industry WA member directory, or the national directory with its NIASA, EcoHort and BioSecure HACCP filters if you are bringing stock across the border.

Turf

Buy from the farm closest to site. Rolled turf is perishable — Greenacres commits to delivery within 24 hours of harvest, and that window is the whole game in a Perth summer. The Turf Growers Association of WA lists all eleven member farms with locations; the Perth-adjacent ones are at Jandabup, West Swan, Wattleup, Baldivis, West Bullsbrook, Serpentine, Neergabby and West Gingin. Book the delivery for the morning you are laying, and have the base finished the day before.

Paving, limestone and retaining

Supplier	Range
Midland Brick	Bricks, pavers, masonry and retaining blocks, Versaloc, plus sand, cement and sealers. Four Perth sites — but Subiaco is a showroom with no stock, and South Guildford’s last pick-up is half an hour before closing
UrbanStone	Stone and limestone paving, limestone blocks, porcelain, wall cladding. Now the single WA storefront for Austral Bricks WA products too
Soils Aint Soils	Limestone blocks alongside the bulk products, which saves a second delivery

Check backorders before you commit to a start date. Midland Brick currently flags that some clay brick products are on backorder — a six-week wait on a paver discovered after demolition is your problem, not the client’s.

Reticulation

WA Reticulation Supplies has stores at Armadale, Midland and Rockingham, carries around forty professional brands, serves trade and public, and operates as a Waterwise Garden Design shop. Reece Irrigation & Pools is the national alternative, with trade portal ordering and job-based quoting.

For anyone not on this list, use the Waterwise endorsed member directory — run by Irrigation Australia with Water Corporation and DWER. DWER directs you there itself to find a Waterwise Garden Irrigator or Irrigation Design Shop. It is also how you check a supplier’s rebate claim before repeating it to a client.

Hire

Kennards Hire runs 220 branches and advertises 1–35 tonne excavators, heavy-duty rollers and general kit. Branch density in the metro area means a broken machine can be swapped the same day. Confirm the specific machine with the branch — a small suburban yard does not hold the whole catalogue. Brooks Hire is WA-owned with a Perth City branch and regional coverage from Broome to Albany, which is the realistic option outside the metro.

Both are dry hire: the machine only, no operator and no fuel. Budget the ticketed operator, the fuel and the float, and remember hire runs on calendar days including the ones you spend waiting on an inspection.

This list dates — here is how to check it

Supplier lists rot faster than regulations. In the last few years Total Eden was absorbed into Nutrien Water, brikmakers.com started redirecting to Midland Brick, and Austral Bricks WA folded its WA storefront into UrbanStone. Two businesses that were Perth institutions no longer resolve at the domains everyone still quotes.

So: before you rely on any entry here, load the link. If it redirects to an unfamiliar brand, or does not resolve, the business has been sold, merged or closed. Then work from the directories rather than from a list — Greenlife Industry WA for plants, TGAWA for turf, Waterwise Programs for irrigation. Those are maintained by the industries themselves and outlive any individual supplier.

Prices, opening hours and delivery fees quoted on this page were correct on the check date in each entry and are the first things to go stale. Ring before you tow.