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13-05-2011 2:29pm#1
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Jellybaby1 wrote: »I've had three different gardeners over the last couple of years because I let the garden go too wild and I couldn't cope with it. Unfortunately the Irish guys were just too expensive so the last time I got a non-Irish guy who just as good and he charged a more reasonable price. However, all in all I found that none of them were interested in doing lawns. I told them all I wanted the lawn sorted out because it was bare and patchy in some areas, but none of them did that end of the job. They were all happy to dig flower beds and cut down anything in their path though. I just wonder if 'gardener' is the wrong word for some of these guys. Some of them don't even know the names of common plants, and I'm no gardener myself - I get all my info from books and the internet. So I suppose to get the best you need to look for qualifications, references, and then pay the top-notch price they charge!! I've given up getting 'gardeners' now and am trying to keep the garden up to scratch myself.
More a penny pinching than a despairing attitude, but why are you surprised? Scraping around at the bottom of the barrel looking for value?
To dismiss 'Irish' as expensive and 'non-Irish' as value is ridiculous. Of course there are huge differences, many people have been conned by the 'Jack out of the box' gardeners, who charge little and know even less. You're not willing to pay qualified rates, but unhappy with the service quality of a budget rate? It's really a case of won't pay meets can't do.
Back to the garden, plenty of learning to developing and maintaining a garden. Some patience, attitude and work is mostly required.0 -
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Sonnenblumen wrote: »More a penny pinching than a despairing attitude, but why are you surprised? Scraping around at the bottom of the barrel looking for value?
To dismiss 'Irish' as expensive and 'non-Irish' as value is ridiculous. Of course there are huge differences, many people have been conned by the 'Jack out of the box' gardeners, who charge little and know even less. You're not willing to pay qualified rates, but unhappy with the service quality of a budget rate? It's really a case of won't pay meets can't do.
Back to the garden, plenty of learning to developing and maintaining a garden. Some patience, attitude and work is mostly required.
Just because someone is Irish and expensive doesn't mean he is qualified.0 -
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Sonnenblumen wrote: »More a penny pinching than a despairing attitude, but why are you surprised? Scraping around at the bottom of the barrel looking for value?
To dismiss 'Irish' as expensive and 'non-Irish' as value is ridiculous. Of course there are huge differences, many people have been conned by the 'Jack out of the box' gardeners, who charge little and know even less. You're not willing to pay qualified rates, but unhappy with the service quality of a budget rate? It's really a case of won't pay meets can't do.
Back to the garden, plenty of learning to developing and maintaining a garden. Some patience, attitude and work is mostly required.
I don't have very many pennies to 'pinch'!0 -
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