how much is a gardener likely to cost me??

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im seriously considering getting a gardener in once a fortnight to just cut the lawns and hedges and generally tidy up.
anyone know the going rate?

my friend says he charges 30 quid an hour

anyone else?
thanks for that lou.

We pay £30 a fortnight for grass cut and general tidy-up, not a huge garden, no hedge and not a lot of plants. But we are in Central Scotland.

In Edinburgh 4 years ago cost was £25 per hour.

he is in kent btw

i've just had someone to do that for me and he charged £15 per hour. seems i got a bargain. he wasn't a gardener so much as a handyman tho. he was in s london.

Depends where you live.I charge £10 per hour in the East Midlands.That seems to be the going rate around here.

I think I have been very lucky then looking at these prices! I paid £7 an hour for my gardener before we moved, and he came for 4 hours a week, did hedges, pruning, lawns, digging, all veg planting and stuff and never needed asking to do anything as he was so proactive. This was on Essex/Suffolk borders

Might be worth asking around for a retired man who fancies cash in hand - will most likely be cheaper than a professional gardener, and it doesn't sound like you need one of those, more a handyman type person?