How much should you pay a gardener?

£20 an hour per person. We have a team of two who come in every fortnight. This is in Surrey.

Find out if the local college have students doing horticulture and need experience/project work if you have a large garden they are often looking for people willing to let them come and work supervised.

£15 an hour, she has all the necessary equipment and I provide the pots etc.

Always annoys me that gardeners (usully male) get paid so much more than cleaners per hours when (unless special expertise required) they are both doing a manual job. Another case of inequality of pay for similar work?
(But f gardeners are like hens teeth then maybe the market palce speaks!)

My mother had a gardener for £120 for the day once a fortnight but certainly did not put in the hours what with arriving after 9 and moving off after 3 and with coffee break and lunch break. And had to be told obvious things to be doing..... There is now a lady who does a couple of hours at £20 an hour.

Due to rise in fuel costs my gardener raised his price from £30 to £35 very recently. This is for a session doing whatever needs doing eg grass cutting/trimming edges, weeding, trimming back shrubs. He brings his own equipment and takes a lot of the cutting/clearing out stuff away. I do have a large garden refuse bin and depending when its due for emptying he puts grass cutting in that. Visits 4 weekly as I am able to cut the grass in between. Wouldn't say he is the best but okay, willing and available.

DiL's gardener - who does know his stuff - charges £25 per hour. Takes all clippings etc away with him.

She pays cleaner £25 an hour, Cleaner provides all her own equipment except for mop and vacuum cleaner.

We have neither but pay window cleaners £30 to do our windows every six weeks or so. It takes 2 of them about 40 minutes.

All three have just asked for increase to help with their petrol costs. Window cleaners put £2 on every customer's bill.

I paid my first gardener £15 but he retired and I used an agency that charged £20 an hour but the following year said they were increasing their price to £40 an hour! I was struggling to find anyone that didn’t insist on fortnightly but luckily a new gardener advertised on my local Facebook page and charges £20, comes monthly.

Sago I was having a cuppa when reading your post and nearly spilt my tea, you’ve made my day ???

As we babysit her daughter while she works we pay £10 ph, but her usual rate is £20, trained landscape gardener.

We pay ours £18 an hour. We’re in Bristol. He comes every other week.
He keeps the garden tidy and will do anything I ask him to do. He supplies everything and leaves the garden looking very tidy. He is not what I would call a proper gardener but I’m happy as it’s too much for us now. I still do a lot of the pruning myself as I enjoy it and it stops them whizzing round and chopping the heads off plants. He is a very nice young man with 2 assistants who are also very nice. DH still insists on cutting the grass as no one can do it as good as him.

Mil pays £21 per hour to cut the grass front and back and she begrudges every penny of it even telling them she has no money ?

babcha

Always annoys me that gardeners (usully male) get paid so much more than cleaners per hours when (unless special expertise required) they are both doing a manual job. Another case of inequality of pay for similar work?
(But f gardeners are like hens teeth then maybe the market palce speaks!)

Not always. I pay the gardner £18 an hour and the cleaner £17.50.

My gardener only asked for £10 an hour but I give him £15.
It depends on where you live.

I have a young gardener and I pay him £15 per hour. He brings his own hand mower ( his petrol) and uses the ride on mower for the larger areas( our petrol).

I pay my gardener £100 for the day. 9 am to 5 pm, I always pay cash.

I pay £115 a month and live in north London where rates are high. That's cheap by all accounts. I don't think he stays the hour but pleased to get anyone. Best to enquire in the winter months when gardeners haven't that much work . . . unless they have gone to Barbados on the money earned during the summer!

DaisyL

Has anyone got any ideas about how much I should pay a gardener? I've had someone for years helping and he has now retired but I think that he was being paid well below the going rate. What do people think is a reasonable hourly rate?

How much per hour were you paying him? Hopefully you will work out the difference between what you were paying him for all those years and say £14 per hour and go and give him a lump sum for what you didn't pay him, as a retirement gift. Then your conscience can be clear on that matter at least. I pay £15 per hour but give £5 extra overall for petrol costs.

It is difficult to find a gardener who knows about plants, and can weed borders. £20 per hour pays for a strong young 'gardener' to mow lawns, trim hedges, and spray weedkiller on pathways. I have to look after borders myself, but it is very hard digging up and dividing perennials so I am slowly replacing with shrubs and rose bushes, and just using a hoe regularly. One problem is that we have huge trees nearby so have mini forests growing in borders and they are so hard to dig out.

Re gardeners, are any of these people charging just £15 per hour in the Berkshire area, like me? I pay a window cleaner £20, who is here for about 10 minutes.

Baggytrazza I'm with you. Have 2 massive conifers (much taller than the house) and some smaller ones plus a laburnum in a not very big garden ( house is a semi). I reckon it would cost thousands to just have the tops lopped, exacerbated by the fact that they would have to take all the debris through my rather full garage to reach the front of the house. Every time I think I may have enough spare cash to get estimates, something else pops up - and the trees keep growing.

I deployed a pair if rabbits at the start of the season to keep the grass trim and tidy. To be daur they gave done a fairly good job. It's a bit longing the odd spot. They don't clear up after themselves though. They have a tendency to nibble things they aren't supposed to either. Still, its their first year. They were only twenty pounds each. Bargain!

In East Anglia & now pay my brilliant Gardener £15 per hour. He has been caring for my gardens, small back & front, for many years now. Would be lost without him. When he started all those years ago he charged £10 but had to increase lately as everything has gone up. He takes care of a very big Twisted Willow & some bushes & shrubs in front & 2 trees & 3 large busges in the back as well as cutting the grass. He is a STAR!! Not everyone is as lucky with their Gardeners & he does have a waiting list.

Fingers not working properly, have no idea what busges are but meant bushes! Sorry all Lol!!

I pay £15 per hour for a retired man to do my garden , he is 84 and fit as a fiddle!

£15.00 an hour if all you need is garden maintenance…..£25 per hour if it’s trained gardener with experience, that’s the going rate here in Hertfordshire.