To ask how much do you pay for a gardener

30EUR/hour - he comes and mows for a couple of hours every 2 weeks through summer/sprint/autumn, then Autumn/Winter/Spring I get him to do something bigger every month or so like trim the hedges or weed the drive etc.

SE, I pay £30 an hour for skilled gardener. Once or twice a year I spend £15 an hour for someone to come and hook the summer flowers out, trim back the bushes etc.

It's impossible to price per hour, my husband quotes on the job which is required. An hour weeding and planting is not the same as wielding heavy clippers and stretching whilst balancing up a ladder! Waste disposal has to be paid for which many customers don't think of. Then with petrol tools, maintenance of tools, a van to run and maintain, tax, NI, liability insurance etc £20/hr does not provide minimum wage never mind a sustainable living wage!

£30 once a month, probably an hour. She’s fab.

£19 per hour - East Midlands

SE £20 an hour.

£200 for eight hours

Ok, points to you for coming back to apologise!

To answer your question - well, obviously it depends on everything else they're doing, doesn't it? If I can do one hour at numbers 1, 3, 4, 6 and 9 on the same street, I might be fine. If I'm doing numbers 2, 5, 8 and 10 in the afternoon, I'm delighted. What isn't ok is doing one hour for you, then driving for an hour to my next job.

£20 fortnightly.

Although only really cuts the grass that takes 20 minutes. Might do a bit of leaf collection in the autumn and a bit of weed spraying in the spring/summer but only a few minutes' worth of that.

It’s worth asking if any of the neighbours have gardeners. We do a one hour slots but they are only worth it if we do a few slots on the same street or the same area on the same day.

I'm not disagreeing they have to make a living - that is exactly why I am questioning how so many posters are getting 1hr of gardening every 2 weeks for £20-30. It can't be in their gardeners interests. My point was I can't find anyone to do that and I am surprised people can.

I appear to have offended by also saying I have the same issue with cleaners and trying to make a jokey solution. Apologies.

I work as a gardener in NE England. I work with my husband and it’s £35 for the two of us together for an hour. We provide all of our own equipment for that. For regular customers we also provide some free services some as lawn treatment and weed control. Some gardens we visit once a fortnight and others a few times a week. It varies depending on the size of the garden and what the customer wants. Other gardens we do once or twice a year as they just need specific jobs doing.

£35/hour for someone with qualifications. If just a labourer/general person about £20-25/hour. This is London.

Yes, and sadly, even if you think a garden is gorgeous and you would genuinely love to work in it, if someone else is offering a secure 6 hour day and winter work, you are going to prioritise them.

I'm trying to imagine the cleaner/gardener idea in practice - can you imagine going on to your second client of the day?!

'Hello Mrs Immaculate White Home, it is I, your cleaner! What's that? I am wearing mud-caked boots and shedding particles of hedge from my hair, and there clings to me a distinct perfume of manure? That's because of my special trademark profession: cleaner then gardener!' <twirls>

NE - just pay for mowing once a fortnight (small lawn) £25 per visit.

Because they have to earn a living! Ffs.

But would your average gardener want to work as a cleaner, and vice versa?

It's a bit like saying 'gosh, I do wish I could get my hairdresser and my son's tutor to double up, would be so convenient!' I mean, sure, maybe. But, although I pay about the same for tutoring and getting a haircut, I would imagine it'd be a niche kind of overlap.

NE, I charge £27.50 p/h and I don't like doing less than 2/3 hours (I will do 2 if you are near an existing client). I don't take away waste unless by arrangement and I'd charge for it.

I don't understand how anyone makes a living on £15 per hour unless it's a hobby - after you've paid tax and insurance that really isn't a living wage.

Exactly! This is why I have struggled to find both a cleaner and gardener. I actually think a brilliant job would be to do a cleaning and gardening job COMBINED as I could find 4hrs work a week easily then!

£20 a fortnight, he mows the lawn, trims the hedges and does a 'big cut back' in spring for an extra £10. He's like a ninja, I've no idea when he will come but at some point I'll look out the kitchen window and it's done!

I don't mind how often I do someone's garden, but it does need to be a minimum of 2 hours.

If I drive half an hour to your house, work for an hour and then drive half an hour to the next call then I've effectively worked 2 hours for the £22 that I've already stated i charge- ie under min wage.

I'm starting to feel like all the gardeners in my area are extra picky! As with cleaners, unless you can offer 2hrs + work a week they don't want to know!

£45 for an hour and a half once every 2 weeks with a pause in the winter for 2-3 months

30 quid for mowing and weeding and keeping trees tidy. Every two weeks.

How often do all of these gardeners come and what work are they doing?

I think I would struggle to get someone to come less than 2 times a week at £20ph. I've not got a tiny garden but every week they'd probably only need to be there 1hr...