Resources to Help You Build Your Gardening Business

Everything on the site in one place: the pricing and quoting guides, the service pricing guides, the business economics guide, the free toolkit, the ebook and The Gardening Business Year membership.

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The Gardening Business Year

For gardeners already running the business. A workbook built around your own figures and customers, five playbooks for the situations that come up, and a year that tells you what deserves attention when. It is the one thing on this page that isn’t free, and the page explains exactly what you get.

Read about the membership

How to Start a Gardening Business (UK)

A step-by-step guide covering registering as self-employed, buying basic equipment, and finding your first customers.

Read the getting started guide

Gardener Pricing (UK)

The main pricing guide: typical UK gardener rates, how to structure your prices, and where to go next.

Read the pricing guide

Self-Employed Gardener Earnings (UK)

A realistic look at what self-employed gardeners actually take home once costs and pricing are accounted for.

Read the earnings guide

Hourly vs Day Rates (UK)

A breakdown of the pros and cons of hourly and day-rate pricing, and how to choose between them.

Read the pricing structure guide

How to Quote Gardening Jobs (UK)

A step-by-step quoting method to price jobs confidently, avoid undercharging, and sound more professional.

Read the quoting guide

Gardener Hourly Rate (UK)

A realistic guide to what gardeners charge per hour in the UK, and how to set your own rate without guessing.

Read the hourly rate guide

What Your Gardening Business Needs to Earn (UK)

Work out what your business actually needs each billable hour to recover, and check whether the jobs you take on pay.

Read the business economics guide

Hedge Cutting Prices (UK)

A practical guide to charging per metre, day rates, and avoiding underpricing hedge jobs.

Read the hedge pricing guide

Garden Maintenance Pricing (UK)

Work out what to charge for regular maintenance rounds and one-off tidy-ups, with worked pricing examples.

Read the maintenance pricing guide

Lawn Mowing Pricing (UK)

A practical guide to pricing lawn mowing rounds, minimum charges, and one-off or overgrown cuts.

Read the lawn mowing pricing guide

Garden Clearance Pricing (UK)

How to price clearance work, from small tidy-ups to full overgrown-garden jobs, including waste disposal.

Read the clearance pricing guide

Free Starter Toolkit

A free 30-day action checklist, pricing cheatsheet and client enquiry email template, plus links to the guides worth reading first.

Get the free toolkit

The Ebook

Read the full, 50,000+ word step-by-step guide to starting and growing a profitable gardening business in the UK.

Learn more about the ebook

Start Here

New to the site? The Start Here page explains who I am, what this is all about and the best way to use everything I’m building.

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This site keeps growing

I add resources here as I work out what’s genuinely useful for running a gardening business in the UK, not to a schedule and not for the sake of it. If you want to hear when something new goes up, the free toolkit email list is where I’ll say so first.

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