Regular Gardener cost

honeybear wrote: »

Hi all, interested in a house with a lovely garden (house on half acre, very good lawn & pretty planting around perimeter). I wouldn’t know where to start to maintain it if I bought the property. Think I’d probably pay a gardener initially and ask them to mentor me. What price would a gardener cost per hour, how many times a month would I hire them for?

I charge 30 per hour. that's fairly normal. green waste is extra depending on how much of it there is.

I pay 18/hr for one day a week for 0.8 acre site.

Grass cutting, hedge trimming, basic pruning and planting, weeding, mulching, gravel driveway maintenance, odd jobs like digging trenches for drainage and electrics.

I then do bits and pieces myself on top of that like formative pruning, hedge planting, small landscaping projects, planning and dithering.

I tried dropping to 2 days a month but that wasn't sustainable, the place was falling apart. Holding back the forces of nature takes effort.

It's a lot of money but then I know people in housing estates and apartments who pay a couple of hundred a month service charges.