Gardeners 👨‍🌾 : How much £££ ? 🪴

I've been wondering how the dog is.

Are you there, FannyC?

Avanew

I think you could safely say a lot of private gardeners are not paying public liability insurance, or income tax and maybe not NI. If they ask for cash in hand, they are probably not declaring these jobs to the tax people. However, as Astitchintime says, if you are multi-skilled and costing everything properly the rates would be a lot higher!

What would happen if a gardener hadn't insured themselves and had an accident in somebody's back garden?

A shame that, as with the thread she started about dog walkers, she doesn’t return to thank people for the information they provide.

Crossstitchfan

Who on earth is Fanny??

Fanny is a much loved poster, who took a step back for a while. We are delighted to seeing her posting again.

Who on earth is Fanny??

We pay £50 for a two hour visit once a fortnight (Nottinghamshire). He is expensive but worth every penny. He works flat out and I swear that he gets twice as much done as anyone else could do in the time. He is a professional landscaper and works solely by recommendation. No need to advertise or promote himself at all. Our garden looks lovely.

South London - my gardener who is 50 and his younger co worker, both of whom have relevant qualifications , charge £25 an hour.

We have someone who mows our lawn and is going to do some other jobs we'd like to do but I'm in no fit state to do.

He charges £15per hour, Lincolnshire.

My gardener charges £20ph. He runs a proper business. it's not a pin money job. He's 50s years old and taught construction at a local college until he decided on a change of career.
He turns his hand to various jobs, mending kitchen cupboard doors, re-laying my patio, pressure washing as well as weeding, mowing and pruning.
I'm in the West Midlands.

£22.00 here, but difficult to get.

£25 per hour. I am in North Londom

I just asked my son- he only does a minimum of 2 hours work to cover his petrol costs and charges £40 for that 2 hours.

Half a day £75 and a full day £150- depending on the work needed. It isn't in his interest to do small jobs due to the travel time.

We are insured for people working on our property.

£35 for mowing the lawn and general tidying up. Could be 2 and a half hours depending on the state of everything. Very large garden. Co. Durham

I pay £30 an hour in Southport
He's good weeds,prunes digs plants out and plant plants
I mow my grass

Hello Fanny how are you?
We used to pay £15 an hour but I think anywhere up to @ £25 an hour seems normal

Birmingham £13/hr.

Around £20 - £25 an hour. Sometimes, in my experience it's better to more per hour as they do far more within that hour. It's a case of " how long is a piece of string?" really.

£18 an hour and she is excellent.

£15 for the first hour then £10 an hour, I have her an afternoon a fortnight so £45 a time, I still garden too but she gets through a lot more than me!

My husband is a gardener and doesn’t charge by the hour but by the job. He is a qualified landscape gardener who does pay tax, has liability insurance and gives a quote in writing before each job and an invoice for payment. All of his equipment is petrol run and often he has to pay to get rid of waste.
Those of you who have a handyman/retired gardener who charged £20/£25 an hour are very lucky. This is our livelihood and if we charged that we wouldn’t survive!

I pay a lovely guy £10 every week to cut front and back lawns
And an extra £10 when he cuts my hedges
He’s wonderful!

You lucky, lucky person! Your 'gardener' sounds just perfect.
I am green (!) with envy.

Nannytopsy

Last time £30 to someone who didn’t know a weed from a precious plant. This week £20 but he’s so patronising!

Your post reminded me of a tongue-in-cheek quote from a lovely nursey near me: "The best way to distinguish between a weed and a precious plant is to pull on it gently - if it comes up easily it was a precious plant!".

I have a gardener for lawn and hedges, once a fortnight for an hour or 2, he charges £20 per hour.