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20-12-2002, 12:33 PM

in article , PaulK at
wrote on 19/12/02 9:48 pm:

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Why is it that because hobby gardeners do it for love in their own garden so
many of them expect to pay a pittance when they have work done for them?

Wages vary enormously in different parts of the country and I don't know
anyone in this part of Devon who would pay 18.00 per hour to a gardener! One
fully qualified gardener/garden designer we know doesn't charge that!
OTOH, in Jersey where I used to live, there is a rich population among the
finance workers and that would probably be near the going rate there.
Certainly, the last I heard, a painter/decorator was getting 16.00 or more
an hour there and that was a couple of years ago. When I moved to Devon, I
had a pensioner who worked one morning a week in my garden. I asked *him*
what his charges were and he told *me* 5.00 per hour. He worked for me for 3
years and only gave up when I sold the house. It isn't possible to apply a
London 'going rate' to all the rest of the country.
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