How much should you pay a gardener?

That sounds good Georgesgran. I asked my gardener if once the lawns don’t need doing, he’d help me dig and separate some big plants. Yes they will - it will make a big difference for me

I didn’t intend to be a Gardner for other people but relatives of a friend were let go by their gardeners when lockdown hit so I was asked to do their gardens. They pay £15 per hour.

It took me a whole year to find a gardener - some came, looked at the garden and never came back, or just said they’d come to look and didn’t show up. I eventually found one in March last year. He tells pretty much the same story (it’s true, I’m sure) that he can afford to pick and choose his customers as he’s in high demand. After a fall out with someone who told him to pick up the dog poo before cutting the grass, he was told not to go back, but 4 weeks later the chap was on the phone begging to be reinstated. Too late, as he’d given that slot to someone else. I pay £50 a visit - it’s every 2 weeks, 2 or 3 chaps and I’ve a big garden. Seasonal only with a last visit to prepare the garden for Winter, then a similar visit in Spring to do a big tidy-up. They bring all their equipment with them and fill up my garden bin every time. Any really big stuff is carted away on their truck.

We pay £17.00 an hour, he takes all the rubbish away, and over the years has helped us out with all sorts of things.
Worth every penny

We pay ours £18 ph.

I’m new to having a gardener, he has a young assistant. They mow front and back lawns, keep the weeds in the borders and driveway down. It’s £28 a fortnight. Seems fair.

I think you'll have to pay what they ask. Gardeners are like hen's teeth, hard to find one with a free slot.

MIL had a regular gardener, he was telling her that there was one client who was most unpleasant to him and the lawn was a pig to cut as it was on a steep slope. It came to a head when the client was particularly abnoxious and said don't come back again, I'll get someone better. So, very gladly, he didn't. Some weeks later, the ex client phoned and apologised, said he'd been hasty and he'd needed him back. But the gardener had filled the slot from his waiting list and didn't return.

I pay my gardener £22 per hour. She brings all her own equipment and clears up afterward.

I do my own but my friend pays £15 an hour too shinamae

I personally don’t have one but a friend of mine pays £15 an hour and he brings his own equipment..