What's the going rate for gardening help?

I do gardening for good people, mowing 3 lawns, tending borders, lots of pots planted up and looked after 6 or 8 hours a week and also plied with choc bars biscuits and coffee. I get £10 per hour. I am an ex head gardener. I love being creative and have just created an alpine garden for them. Still enjoy it but my body does so complain these days

I thought you said you were permaculturing in SW France, Hibouxknits ? That's a long way to commute for some jobbing gardening.

Hi everyone,I'm in Cheshire.Been here 6 years now,but had 50 customers in and around Blackheath near London.Price per hour for general regular garden maintenance in 2006/7 was between £10-14ph.It does depend on the hours offered at any one visit.We put in a lot of full days and therefore dropped the price down.For a 2 hour fortnightly visit to same garden I charged them £20. I was gardener on a 500 acre estate in Macclesfield-house lawns,flower beds,shrubs,climbers,topiary,veg plot,fruit orchard & canes.Did the gutters and drains in courtyard etc…2009 9-4pm m-f £60 a day.I was on-call as chauffeur,fed cat,collected newspapers and supplies,cleaned shoes…
Unfortunately I've broken my wrist! and taking time off for now,but if anyone is wanting a gardener from September onwards,please send me a message. I'll still be charging 2009 prices lol i.e. £10ph

Hi Charleygirl,

Is your Gardner available to take on more clients?

I am near Kingsbury/Wembley park.

If so could you be able to pass me the email address please?

cheers

Hi Charleygirl,

Is your Gardner available to take on more clients?

I am near Kingsbury/Wembley park.

If so could you be able to pass me the email address please?

cheers

We are still able to garden for ourselves but a neighbour has a very good man who comes in fortnightly to trim, tidy etc and I believe he charges £10.00 per hour, this is Leicester.. What he tries to do is have two or three very local jobs in one street or close by saves on the petrol then. He tidies up well and takes all the rubbish away.

It all depends on if they are a proper gardener or just an odd job man. Go for a proper gardener who knows what's what.Here in my part of Oxfordshire, neighbours pay £16 per hour. No doubt you can get someone just to cut grass and do edging a bit cheaper.

There is this gardeners. I am lucky to get this gardener north shore
www.gardeningnorthside.com.au
. The maintenance work he does is good. I don't have any complains from them.

I have had a gardener for the last 2 days and paid him £20 per hour. We live in North Bucks. He was recommended and worth every single penny. He has done a complete "make over" on one area of our garden which was quite out of control. He salvaged every plant that was valuable and has replanted in a more suitable position after clearing all the weeds. It would have taken my OH and I weeks to do what he has done. I am delighted with the result.

Surrey price is £15 an hour and for that you get someone who can mow the lawn and chop bits off plants. We had a man to do a spring tidy up,last year and he had no gardening knowledge at all. Chopped all the wrong bits off the hydrangea so we had no flowers in the summer. This year we are going for a DIY tidy up very slowly. At least it gets Mr PD out of the armchair and away from the endless property programmes!

i am lucky that our city council still provide free grass cutting and hedge cutting to anyone over 75 even if you are a house owner. my daughter has a retired man who looks after her very large garden and she gets him to come to me in early spring to clear up my borders and cut back any overgrown bushes. he charges £10 per hour and is worth every penny.

We have a friend in East Sussex who has been doing this since semi-retiring. He charges £10 an hour and is really dedicated.

Nice sentiment printmiss helping someone that is not presently working and agreeing that will be beneficial to both.

When I was out of work I did not see it that way--that I DID have something to offer and was needed I just saw it that I NEEDED them.

I like your thinking and will keep it with me thank you

Be careful Jane who you employ. I've heard so many bad reports over the years about so-called 'gardeners' who are no such thing. They are just odd-job people who cannot tell a dandelion from a primrose.

I have been quoted £15 per hour in the south east,which includes getting rid of the garden waste,and odd jobs, so I have accepted this on a one off basis to see how the work is done. Hopefully it will be worth the money and since I know the young man in question and he is out of work, it should prove useful to us both

Hi I have just had a quote for my garden--it needs tidying and re turfing, its about 15by15 and I was quoted £300

It's roughly what I thought I would be paying then, thank you.

I have a chap that comes regularly to do gardening and basic DIY and I pay him £10 per hour - and he is worth every penny.

Gary comes on a Monday for about 4 hours and on a Friday for about two. He does odd jobs as well.
His wife is my cleaner and does 6 hours a week. Tho monthly bill is over £500
I have a big garden about 57ft X 100ft and a large 4 bedroomed house. They both tale a lot of upkeep.( as do I )

I'm relieved that there are quite a few on here who pay for help in the garden. I felt terribly guilty last year when I did the sums and worked out we could just about afford it. It's been well worth it though because I can spend more time on planting plans and less time digging and edging. DH does the lawns and hedges so I think I've finally cracked it.

We live in Wiltshire and pay £16 an hour for gardening only. DH does the grass (and grumbles!) and Dave the gardener has a man what does the hedges/trees and we pay him as and when

Yes tiggy I tend to be the person being paid and not the payer too. Although I have to confess I don't dig. I tend to just point and DH obliges. Well sometimes he does anyway.

We pay £10 an hour and have two hours a week. This gardener gets a lot more done in those two hours then the previous one did in three.

My handyman gardener had two pancakes with icecream, sugar and lemon yesterday, as well as the £15 an hour!