Cost of a gardener to come and tidy up

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My elderly mum's garden in Yorkshire is in need of a tidy up. It's a 1930's semi with a very small front garden and a back garden 40 feet long.

I've been quoted £300 plus VAT mow lawn, make it defined around the edges prune a few bushes back and general tidying. It's about a day's work and nothing strenuous involving trees.

Is this the normal price, do you know?

Seems a lot to me. I have a couple of local people here who charge 10-12 pounds an hour. they may take 2 days to do all that and clear up but that would be 160 for 2 days.

Way expensive!

I'd contact a handyman rather than a gardener for that sort of work. We had ours sorted out for £60 a day. (Norfolk)

Whoa. V spenny. £10-15p/h in SE england

Very expensive
In London we paid £150 for a 10 hr day of gardening, hedge cutting etc.

It seems expensive, but maybe there will be 2 of them? Also the waste costs to dispose of. Thirty quid per big sack. In SE I had 2 guys do 4.5 hours work + waste disposal and they did a brilliant job, money well spent. Pruning, cutting back, collecting leaves and weeds and treating my patio (no lawn) cosy me 160 quid.

60 a day depending on the length of day could be less than the NMW.