Gardeners 👨‍🌾 : How much £££ ? 🪴

Hi Fanny I've found a young lady who has a day time office job and does gardening in her spare time as she loves working in the fresh air. She charges £15 an hour for weeding, light pruning, grass cutting. Her clients are mainly elderly ladies, like myself, who find grubbing around on their knees difficult now. I've used her for a couple of sessions to help me with the backlog caused by the endless rain, but should manage myself for a while. She is a find really because this is stockbroker belt Surrey and full time gardeners usually charge much more and are sniffy about little jobs when they have mansions with rolling acres to aim for

I pay £20 hourly rate to have my mum’s garden done in the season. We are in rural Midlands.
Lovely to see you posting Fanny I detoxed from GN for a while and on my return you were gone 🙁

Last time £30 to someone who didn’t know a weed from a precious plant. This week £20 but he’s so patronising!

Good to see you fanny.

Our area, South west, folk I know pay £22 an hour for what you might call light gardening. Anyone wanting a major design makeover, hard landscaping or fence painting pays £30 upwards.

Hello FannyC 👋👋👋

It's rather random, we pay a set amount for someone to cut the lawns but I'm not sure how long he takes. He's worth every penny.

Someone else comes in occasionally to weed our extensive patch, he worked for about 6 hours solidly (he had a quick lunch break) and charged £110 I think.

The hard landscapers were useless and a rip-off.

It's not easy to find gardeners here.

Charleygirl5

£30 an hour NW London but recently I have paid £20 an hour because I have given good reviews. One fellow did not think I could own so much grass (I am loathe to do the work of the Council or pay for it). A couple did not have mowers and another fool came when dark to give me a quote, admitted he had no tools and was on his hands and knees feeling the grass.

admitted he had no tools and was on his hands and knees feeling the grass.

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On that note, I'm going to bed 😂

Hello Fanny.
I pay my "girl" £17 ph but today she told me it will go up yo £19ph. She comes for 3 hours each week all year round.
She has a horticultural qualification and brings her own tools.
She mows in Summer, makes and uses compost, prunes, mulches, plants out shrubs and trees and does any jobs needing doing.
For the last 3 years she's been cultivating a meadow on part of the lawn, sowing yellow rattle to reduce the grass etc.
I do some gardening (I look after the greenhouse and veg) but it's huge and overwhelming.
She has 30 clients but I don't know how many hours she does for each of them.

When my friends ask her if she will work for them she says she's fully booked.

My neighbour, a home for the elderly disabled uses a contractor who keeps lawns and shrubs tidy.

£20 an hour, East Midlands/Northants area.

£15 an hour in South Somerset .

Haven't re-employed our grass cutter this season. N. Scotland and she charged £30 a cut - took less than 30 mins and was never short enough, just wizzed round

I don't use a gardener (yet!) but just wanted to say how good it is to see your name on the posts again FannyC! I did a bit of research online and it seems that the average cost over the whole of the UK is between £30 and £50 per hour. Of course, it depends on where you are, what you want done, and whether the gardener is really a plant person and knows what they are doing.

From speaking to my neighbours who have employed gardeners, some that they have had are just hackers and clearers and wouldn't know a dandelion from a dahlia! Word of mouth goes a long way, but the good ones are hard to find and often booked up with other clients.

Good luck with your search!

My son is just re-launching his gardening business which suffered in the pandemic.
He has kept some of his clients who live in the wealthier areas of the nearby city who pay more, but it costs him more in petrol.
I think he charges between £20-£30 depending on the jobs needing doing.
I shall check with him though.

We live about 20 miles west of Oxford and have been paying £22 per hour. I think she’s putting her prices up. She’s excellent. Brings all her own tools, clears up and has horticultural qualifications. Her business is called The Healing Gardener!

I have a retired gentleman who does my borders and a general tidy up. He charges £15 per hour which seems very reasonable. I’m in the north east.

I wish I could find a gardener. Those recommended on the local Facebook page where people are always asking, seem to be “ landscapers” who specialise in putting down slabs and decking rather than proper gardening. I dread to think how much they charge,

In Zummerzet I pay £15 an hour.

AskAlice - £30-£50 is not the experience here.
Maybe that was for a specific job - such as cutting a lawn - which would depend on several things?

Or maybe this is for horticulturalists?

I pay mine £30. He charges £20 per hour but he has to drive a few miles to get to me and there’s only an hours work, if that. So I offered the extra £10 because it wouldn’t be worth his while otherwise.

Where I am in south east if qualified it’s £25/£30 an hour if not £15.

Since retiring, me and DH do it together for £20 or £22 ph depending on distance we travel. Only do it for elderly and on recommendations.

Seems to be based on where you live in the country. North is around £15 per hour where South is £25 per hour. So many people start gardening businesses because it's easy to set up but they have no experience. My wife once employed a gardener to weed and dig out a border ready for planting. When I checked I found he had only dug the top couple of inches. I later found out that he had jumped off the Humber Bridge and had to kneel on the spade blade to dig.

South West £25 an hour.

I’m in Wiltshire and pay £20 an hour for my chap