Landscaping costs

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I realise its how long is a piece of string, but we want to do our garden this year and i have no clue if it's a £5k job or a £20k job (or beyond!) as never had landscaping done before.

Fairly standard terraced house garden (about 40ft x 15ft)- new fence on three sides, taking up the existing flooring (patio slabs on one side, astroturf and pebbles on the other), putting down new patio slabs on the whole floor and building some beds around the edges.

Or is this something we could do ourselves? Never done anything like it before but would be willing to learn if the alternative was not being able to afford having it done at all.

Bumping for you! (And following with interest. 2025 is the year I go into the garden for more than the odd BBQ 😬)

Just get some quotes.

Yes I’m going to do that as soon as I can (nobody is doing quotes this week, not where I live anyway!) but just wanted to get a feel for whether it’s something that’s totally out of the realms of possibility for us or not. But thanks for your patronising comment!

You could do some of the work and get someone in to do what you can’t do.

This website will give information as to what’s involved in the paving and possiblytge beds. It’ll also help you work out exactly what you want and check on whether your contractors are doing a good job

Amazing, thank you so much @MereDintofPandiculation

Very much depends on type of slabs you want as to the cost there and to some degree, the level of expertise of laying. I am a gardener with some landscaping experience but I wouldn't lay a patio myself. And some landscapers are better than others.

I'd lay turf and build beds myself, and happily order the topsoil/compost and barrow it to fill- they're not so sensitive to perfect levels etc.

But yes, majority of horticulture and landscaping won't be back in action til Mon....but that doesn't mean you can't look for recommendations etc on local groups and send a message/email. As a general rule, if they're available immediately, or a quote that seems to good to be true, they're probably not the best choice

We paid £9.000 for new fence down 1 side (6boards) 2 patio areas and a pergola built . Electric point added. South East.

When we did quick quotes for landscaping work we guestimated 200-300 per sqm. A 5x12m garden is 60sqm. So 12000-18000. Area and amount of work is a big variable. If this is too much for you then there's various ways to reduce.

Grass seed rather then astro turf
Recycled paving found cheap on eBay
Gravel instead of paving
Buying premade planters rather then bespoke.
Doing parts of it yourself.

Generally, commissioning in the planting, you won't save anything as landscapers get bulk discounts, but what you can do instead is buy and install the planting slowly over time to mitigate costs.

Please can you share who you used?

Daniel James Landscapes

Sorry i missed your message

Are you significantly changing levels? We have a very sloping garden that I would like to tier (lots of earth moving), which I think is beyond us, on a level I would do it myself.

Thank you for sharing.

We paid 8k-new Indian stone patio and paving down side of house and front of back door, wide borders and new bed put in, new turf laid, garden 9m by 11m. Last year. Then this year we paid an extra 3.2k to rip out old decking at side of house and install composite. 16m2. Small garden but looks so much better-we really enjoyed it this summer.