SMS Reminders
for Gardeners & Landscapers
A gardening business has two problems a calendar cannot solve: a locked side gate on cutting day, and the customer from last September who never got back in touch. Remindlo handles both from the same customer list.
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Gardening is the one trade with a built-in gap
Every winter the round goes quiet, and every spring some of it does not come back. That is not a marketing problem. It is a record-keeping one.
Four months of silence
Between the last cut in October and the first in March you do not contact anyone. By spring a competitor's leaflet has been through the door and the slot is gone.
A locked gate is a wasted journey
Side gate bolted, car across the drive, dog let out in the garden. You are already loaded up and parked before you find out, and the fuel is spent either way.
The weather moves everything
Three wet days push the whole week back, and a round written down as fixed dates drifts until nobody knows which Tuesday is whose.
Garden work is seasonal, which is a pattern, and patterns can be automated
One list. In season it reminds, out of season it wins back.
A reminder can be timed from the next visit or from the last one. That second option is what turns a dormant winter list into March's diary.
What goes into the message
Hi Mark, we are cutting your garden tomorrow morning.
Please leave the side gate unlocked and the dog indoors.
Payment is due on the day as usual. Thanks.
Hedgerow Garden Services
The March message nobody sends
Most reminders count down to a booking. A win-back counts forward from the last visit instead, so you can say "five months after this customer's final cut, get in touch" and then forget about it. In March the texts go out on their own, to exactly the people who were on the round last year and have not booked yet.
This is the same mechanism behind the thank-you message the day after a job. Both are timed from the visit you completed, not from one you have in the diary.
Why choose Remindlo?
It is a reminder layer, not a job management platform. Choose Remindlo if:
- Your work is seasonal and you want last year's customers contacted automatically when the season restarts, rather than working down a list by hand in March.
- You run a fortnightly round and annual jobs side by side, and want both on one customer list with their own timings.
- You need the schedule to survive the weather, with the next date calculated from the visit you actually did.
- You want to keep the diary you already use, whether that is Google Calendar, a spreadsheet or a notebook in the van, and add reminders on top of it.
- You are a sole trader or a small team and want to start on a free plan of 10 SMS a month rather than a per-seat contract.
Works with your calendar
Connect Remindlo to the tools you already use and turn scheduled appointments into automatic SMS reminders.
Works with Google Calendar
Already use Google Calendar for bookings? Connect it to Remindlo and every appointment with a phone number triggers an SMS reminder automatically. No extra steps.
See how Google Calendar integration works →Or any other calendar
Don't use Google? Connect Outlook, Microsoft 365, Apple iCloud, Fastmail, Yahoo, Proton, or any webmail/hosting calendar by pasting its public ICS URL.
Calendar SMS reminders setup guide →
Set it up in March. It runs to October.
Bring in the round, set the intervals, and the reminders carry on through the season without you touching them.
Bring in the round
Import a CSV, sync Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, or photograph the page of the notebook you keep in the van.
Set the intervals
14 days for cutting, 6 weeks for treatments, 12 months for hedges. Each customer carries their own.
Add the win-back
One reminder timed five months after the last visit, so the spring restart happens whether or not you remember it.
Fewer locked gates
Customers know you are coming and what to leave open, and you see what was delivered in the dashboard.
Round written in a notebook? Take a photo
No spreadsheet to export? Photograph the page and Remindlo reads the names, numbers and dates for you, about 30 seconds instead of an hour of typing.
See how the 30-second photo import works →Why SMS beats ringing round the customers
Nobody answers an unknown number at teatime, and an email about tomorrow's cut is read on Thursday.
| Metric | SMS (Remindlo) | Email | Phone Call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open/Answer rate | 98% | 20-25% | 30-40% |
| Response time | Within 3 minutes | Hours to days | Immediate (if answered) |
| Your time required | Zero (automated) | Per-customer effort | 3-5 min per customer |
| Scales to the whole round | |||
| Says when you are coming and what to leave open |
Built for a season, not a week
The features that matter when the work stops in November and has to start again in March.
Intervals in days, months or years
A fortnightly cut and an annual hedge trim are the same setting with a different number.
Win-backs timed off the last visit
Contact last season's customers automatically, months after their final cut, without keeping a separate list.
Weather-proof scheduling
The next date advances from the visit you completed, so a rained off week does not desynchronise the round.
Choose the send time
Evening before works for domestic gardens. Grounds maintenance contracts usually want working hours instead.
Payment terms in the message
Your own wording, so every reminder repeats when and how you expect to be paid.
Works on your diary
Google Calendar sync, an Outlook or Apple calendar feed, CSV import, or a photo of a paper page.
Consent to receive messages is recorded per customer with the date it was given, and can be withdrawn from the dashboard at any time. Messages go out under your business name with your own contact details, so anyone who wants to stop hearing from you contacts you directly.
Priced for a round, and quiet over winter
Start free with 10 SMS a month. Pause the in-season list when the cutting stops.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Start free, upgrade anytime. No contracts. No setup fees.
Free Plan
- 10 SMS/month
- Templates for your industry
- AI contact scanner
- No credit card required
Starter Plan
- 75 SMS/month
- Unlimited emails
- Calendar integrations
- Contact import
Standard Plan
- 250 SMS/month
- Everything in Starter
- Lower price per SMS
- Priority support
GBP, USD, EUR and many more currencies supported.
Cost per customer example
40 fortnightly customers cut from March to October is about 17 visits each. One reminder per visit is roughly 680 messages a year, which fits the Starter plan's 900 SMS.
Starter Yearly, £199 a year with 900 SMS included. Against 17 cuts that is under 30p a visit, with headroom for the spring win-backs.
How a gardening round is usually set up
Three reminder lists against one customer book.
The first two run all season and cost one message each per visit. The third sends once per customer, in early spring, and is the one that pays for the other two. A customer whose last cut was in October is contacted in March without anyone opening a notebook.
Frequently asked questions
Related reading
See also how Remindlo handles recurring reminders, customer reactivation, and reducing no-shows.
Next March can look after itself
Set the round once, add a win-back timed off the last cut, and stop losing customers to the winter. Start on the free plan with 10 SMS a month.
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