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landscaping costs

Name: Marylee Thompson  City: Keswick, Ontario

Question: What is a fair price for a landscaping installation that will take 4 days, with 2 people working? (gardens are there, job consists of edging the garden, moving plants, installing others, spreading tops soil, etc.). That is, what is a reasonable hourly rate for a gardener?

Name: martin | Date: June 22, 2005, 6:18
Answer: I am a landscape contractor in Portland, Or. Here rates vary from $20 hr per person to $45 per hr. $20 to $25 is the little company (hopefully legitimate, with license & especially insurance) above that are larger companies.