How much does your gardener charge?

[MeMeMeow85]

Hi - I’ve just hired a gardener for our new house. It’s a large garden with lots of big trees. He’s charging £80 a visit, which will be every fortnight. He comes with 1 or 2 other guys and I think they’ll be here for 1-1.5 hours a time.

Any feedback on what you’re paying per hour? Thanks

I have a gardener for 2hrs every fortnight. He charges £15 per hour. Medium-sized front and back gardens. It's mainly lawn-mowing and cutting back foliage. I have a lot of trees, which I and the birds like, and those are trimmed back every 3 or so years.

My father in law pays £12/hr and he comes once a fortnight for about 2 hours

Like lots of jobs, it depends on qualifications and experience.

I paid £10 an hour for someone to dig out a patch of brambles, but it was more like labouring rather than needing any skills.

I found a different gardener for my aunt and uncle who needed help with pruning lots of mature shrubs and looking after their lovely garden. They pay £50 for 2 hours. The gardener they use has been to horticultural college and had references from other clients and seems to be very knowledgeable about the plants in my aunt and uncles garden.

It's a different job if you need someone who can identify plants and knows when and how to prune each one, what feeding they need, etc, as opposed to just needing someone to help out with the heavy work.

Sorry that should be £50 for 2.5 hours for my aunt's garden, so £20 an hour.

That's ok for 1+ 1-2 for an hour and a half. I'm self employed working on my own and I'm getting £30 an hour on a commercial basis. The guy's doing it as a business. He's probably taking less than half that for himself and working on about £20 an hour for the cost of employing someone.

Recently had a reputable company asking for £200 a month to cut mum's grass at her council house which takes me half an hour and to spray the driveway once a month (east of Scotland). Told him politely to do one.

Several of my tax clients are gardeners.
They vary in skills, experience, horticultural knowledge and location.
So what they charge varies between £10 and £25 an hour
they are all busy

£18 per hour, south east within the m25. Brings own tools but does not take away the garden waste.

Mine is £18 per hour but very experienced and takes away waste. I'm not near London.

£15 per hour. He turns up once a fortnight and does what he thinks needs doing.

£10 for an hour every fortnight from about March - November. He cuts both lawns, today edges and borders, weeds paths etc. Love coming home when he's just been!

Wow. That's a lot.
I'm in the Midlands.
I pay £35 once a fortnight.
2 young men come, with all equipment (and they take away all they cut down / grass cuttings, weeds, hedge trimming, pruning etc). They are here about an hour and 10mins from when they pull up to when they pull away - so a clear hour working on the garden, plus they have all the high powered tools, sharp blades on the mower, etc. so they are very efficient.
When they first came I estimated it would have taken me about 8 hours to do what the pair of them do in one hour.