Please help my ex neighbour (who has done quite bit of garden tidying for me in the past) is coming round later to trim a huge shrub in my front garden. I would say it is about 8 feet high. I have always been really pleased with his work before and he is a nice lad (not being patronising, I mean he is polite and hardworking) . My garden is a bit of a nightmare and working on it funded his attendance at various festivals in the past. I used to pay a bit over the odds (I like in Yorkshire) £8-10 per hour because he was honest and hard working but he isn't a qualified gardener and he made some small mistakes. I don't want to underpay him now but I am on a much tighter budget. when he did the work before XH used to foot the bill because he was too lazy busy to do the jobs himself. I love gardening but we don't have heavy duty loppers for large shrubs, plus I have 2 little kids to look after.
What do you think would be a fair price? Money is very tight. I have to get the job done as it is blocking light to the lounge which means leaving the lights on when they should be off.
Any ideas (and apologies for the waffly nature of this post)