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Affordable lawn care, hedges, borders and clearance across Yorkshire - booked in sixty seconds, priced before they arrive, done by someone who actually lives down the road from you.
From the weekly mow to the spring overhaul. We work with vetted local gardeners across the region and match each job to the person best placed to do it.
Weekly, fortnightly or one-off upkeep. Lawns, edging, weeds, borders and the regular jobs that keep things tidy.
£30–£80 / visitHedge cutting, shape work, border maintenance. The bits that make a garden look properly looked after.
£40–£120 / hedgeEnd-of-tenancy clearouts, post-winter wake-ups, rental properties, overgrown jungles. We bring it back.
£200–£450 typicalPlanting plans, full redesigns, hard landscaping and design-and-build. Local Yorkshire designers and landscape gardeners, with town-specific guides for 40 areas.
From £500Patios, drives, decking, fences. A proper clean that brings surfaces back up. Priced before they arrive.
From £80 / jobLawn weed-and-feed, driveway spraying, border maintenance. Done properly, not just pulled and back in a week.
From £50 / visitSpring tidy, summer deadhead, autumn cut-back, plant selection. Yorkshire clay-tolerant varieties recommended. Borders that earn their keep year-round.
From £40 / visitSharp lawn-to-border lines, lawn-to-path edges. The single biggest tidy multiplier per pound spent.
From £30 add-onFull garden transformations - new layout, hard landscaping, planting and finishing. From tidy redesigns to complete rebuilds.
From £500Tree stump removal using a grinder. Quick, clean and leaves no trace. Most stumps done in under two hours once the grinder is on site.
£80–£250 / stumpTimber and composite deck builds. Raised platforms, steps and railings. Properly framed and treated to handle Yorkshire weather year-round.
From £1,200Wildlife ponds, formal water features and planted pond builds. Liner, edging, planting and pump fitting. A single day for most domestic garden ponds.
From £400One-off and regular cuts across Yorkshire. Small gardens from £25, medium from £35.
From £25 / cutMoss control, fertiliser and weed treatment. Spring and autumn programmes from £45.
From £45 / treatmentRemove thatch and moss from compacted Yorkshire lawns. From £60 for small gardens.
From £60 / visitA walled garden in Helmsley after a spring tidy — the kind of work the network does every week.
A note on gardens
Yorkshire gardens have a rhythm. The first cut in late March when the grass finally wakes up. The early hedge work before the birds nest. The June borders running riot. The August lawns bleached by heat the south never sees. The autumn tidy when the wind starts coming off the moors, and the patio cleaning job that follows every wet winter, when the flags have gone green and the decking has had enough. Every garden in this part of the country is on the same calendar, and every one of them needs someone who knows it.
What good gardeners do isn't really about cutting things back. It's about turning up week after week, noticing what's changed, knowing when to leave a patch alone and when to dig it out, remembering that the wisteria needs doing in February and the apple wants pruning in winter. It's also knowing when a border needs a proper weed treatment rather than a quick hand-pull, and when the drive needs more than a sweep. The work is small, regular, considered. It compounds. Whether you're in Harrogate, York, Leeds or out in Helmsley, the calendar is the same.
This site exists to make that easier to find. Local garden maintenance across the region, matched to your postcode, doing the kind of considered week-in-week-out work that turns a patch of grass into a garden you actually want to sit in. If it's a bigger job you're after, have a look at garden design or garden clearance. If you want to find a local gardener near you, start with your town. For grass cutting and lawn treatment specifically, Yorkshire Lawn covers that lane in more detail.
Tell us what you need. We'll price it. No forms to fill out, no waiting on hold.
We cover North, South, West and East Yorkshire - from Harrogate to Barnsley, Scarborough to Ilkley. Search for a gardener near you by town.
Your estimate is free. Accept, negotiate, or walk away - no pressure either way.
Your details go directly to a local Yorkshire gardener who covers your postcode. You pay them, not us.
A 60-second assessment. Postcode, what you need, when, rough size. Done in less time than it takes to find a phone number.
Your job goes to the local gardener we trust most for that postcode and that kind of work. Real people, not algorithms.
Usually the same day — always within 2 working days. They confirm the details, give you a real price (not a placeholder) and book a time that works.
They turn up, do the work, you pay them direct. We check in afterwards to make sure it was right.
Yorkshire rates run cheaper than the UK average. Here's what to expect before anyone quotes. Full breakdowns in the UK gardener cost guide and the hourly rate guide.
Hourly rate
£20–£35
Yorkshire rate. UK average is £25–£50/hr.
Lawn cut
£25–£60
Per visit. Small terrace to large detached.
Terraces, semis, big gardens, overgrown ones, the lot. Most of what we do is regular weekly tidies on ordinary back gardens — not the National Trust.
242 towns and villages covered, from Leeds and Sheffield in the south to Scarborough and Whitby on the coast, York and Harrogate in the centre, and across into Hull and Beverley to the east. Pick your town for postcode-specific pricing and the local pattern of work.
Everything you need to know before you book a gardener in Yorkshire.
We cover 242 towns and villages across Yorkshire, from Hull and Bridlington on the east coast to Settle and Skipton in the Dales, and from Whitby in the north to Doncaster and Sheffield in the south.
Most Yorkshire gardeners charge £20-35 per hour. A standard lawn mow and edge for a small garden costs around £20-40 per visit. Get a free estimate specific to your garden using the form above.
Fill in the 60-second estimate form on this page. We match you with a local gardener in your area and they'll call you back, usually the same day.
No account needed. No card. No obligation. Just a direct callback from someone who knows your area.
We offer garden maintenance, lawn care, hedge trimming, garden clearance, pressure washing, weed control, border planting, and garden design. For a full list, see our services pages.
Yes. Most gardeners we work with offer weekly, fortnightly, and monthly regular maintenance visits as well as one-off jobs.
Regular bookings are set up directly with your gardener after the first visit. No contract, no app, same person every time.
For one-off jobs, most gardeners can attend within 3-7 days. For urgent clearance work, some can attend within 1-2 days.
Fill in the form and the gardener will let you know their availability. In peak season (April-August), allow up to 2 weeks for a first visit.
Yorkshire gardeners charge £20–£35 an hour — cheaper than the £25–£50/hr UK average. Most jobs sit in these ranges:
You always get a real quote before work starts — never a "from £X" that creeps up. Full 2026 UK gardener prices guide →
Rule of thumb: if the job needs more than a day's labour and skip-style waste removal, it's a clearance.
Routine maintenance — weeding, deadheading, light pruning, a once-over.
£40–£80 · 2hr jobMonths or years of neglect — brambles, dead plants, rubble, old shed parts.
£200–£450 (up to £600)Yes — every gardener in our network carries public liability insurance, typically £1m–£5m cover.
Your gardener handles it. Every gardener we work with has the legally-required Waste Carrier's Licence.
Not for routine visits. For the first visit it's usually better to be there.
If it's a straightforward mow or hedge trim and they can get round the back, they'll work unsupervised. Leave the gate unlocked, let them know in advance about shed or water access. Most regular customers leave a key under a plant pot once they've met the gardener.
Yes, and most of our work is regular. Book directly with the gardener after the first visit — no contract, no app, same person every time.
Regular bookings usually get a 10–20% discount vs one-off visits. Two weeks' notice is standard if you want to stop.
Both. Picking "Landscaping" in the assessment routes you to a different pool of people than the maintenance lane.
First call usually the same day — always within 2 working days. First visit usually within a week.
The gardener, directly. We're a matching service, not a booking platform.
No escrow, no card on file, no subscription. They quote the price, do the work, you pay on the day — cash, bank transfer, whatever they prefer. We earn our keep from the gardener side. The estimate is always free and there's never any obligation.
Most Yorkshire gardeners charge £25-45 per hour or £30-80 per visit for regular maintenance. First quotes are usually free. Ask for a written estimate before work starts.
Yorkshire rates run lower than the UK average (£25-50/hr nationally). A fortnightly mow on a semi typically lands at £30-45 per visit. One-off clearances and bigger jobs are priced by the day or job rather than hourly.
Yes. Submitting your details costs nothing and there's no obligation. You only pay the gardener if you decide to go ahead with the work.
We're paid by the gardener side, not by homeowners. There are no finder's fees, no booking charges, and no subscription. Submit your job, get a callback, and take it from there at no cost to you.
Every gardener in our network is checked before they take a job. We verify reviews, ask for references, and confirm public liability insurance before connecting anyone to a homeowner.
These are local sole traders and small businesses who live and work in the same area as you. Many have been operating in the same patch for years and rely on word-of-mouth in their town. We also check in after jobs -- if anything is wrong, we want to know. If a gardener gets poor feedback, they come off the network.
We match your job to the right local gardener for your postcode and type of work. They call you back -- usually the same day, always within 2 working days.
The callback is a real person, not a call centre. They will confirm the details, give you an honest price, and arrange a time to visit if you want to go ahead. There is no obligation to book. If you are not happy with the quote or the timing, you can walk away at no cost.
Yes. Fortnightly visits are the most common booking we arrange -- it is the standard for maintaining a residential garden through spring and summer.
After the first visit, you arrange your regular schedule directly with the gardener. No contract, no app, no subscription. The same person comes back each time, gets to know your garden, and you deal with them directly. Most gardeners we work with offer weekly, fortnightly and monthly options, with fortnightly being the most popular from April through to October.
Regular customers usually get a small discount vs one-off visits. Two weeks' notice is standard if you want to pause or stop.
We cover the full range of garden work -- not just lawn mowing. Most of what we arrange is general maintenance, but we also match landscaping projects, clearances and specialist jobs.
If you are not sure what category your job falls into, just describe it in the form and we will route it to the right person.
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June is the fastest-growing month. Yorkshire lawns need cutting every 7-10 days in decent conditions -- any longer and the grass goes rank and weeds find a foothold. If you have missed a few cuts and the grass is long, it needs two cuts with a rest day between to avoid scalping: take half off the first time, leave it 24 hours, then take it down to height. One aggressive cut on long grass stresses the roots and turns things yellow.
Most birds have finished nesting by late May or early June. It is now legal and practical to cut hedges again. Privet, beech and hornbeam all benefit from getting the first cut in before the new growth hardens off in July -- the softer the growth, the cleaner the cut and the better the finish. If you only do one cut a year, late June into July is the window. A second light trim in August or September catches the late regrowth before winter.
Roses, geraniums, dahlias: keep removing spent flowers as soon as they fade. It takes ten minutes a week per border and extends flowering by six to eight weeks. Left to set seed, most repeat-flowering plants stop producing new buds. The difference between a border that is deadheaded regularly and one that is not is visible by August -- one looks like peak summer, the other looks like it is already winding down.
Yorkshire does not reliably get the dry spells that demand irrigation, but if you hit a dry June or July, water deeply once a week rather than lightly every day. A deep soak encourages roots to go down; shallow daily watering keeps them near the surface and makes the lawn more vulnerable to the next dry spell, not less. Early morning is the best time -- less evaporation and the grass dries off before evening, which reduces fungal risk. Brown grass is almost always dormant rather than dead -- Yorkshire clay holds moisture at depth and most lawns recover within days of rain returning.
Vine weevil adults emerge in June and July and feed at night, notching the edges of leaves -- most visible on container plants, rhododendrons and hostas. The adults are a nuisance but the larvae that follow later in summer are the real problem, feeding on roots in compost. If you have container plants and noticed notched leaves last year, a nematode drench applied to moist compost in late summer is the most effective control without chemicals.
If your garden is above 250 metres -- the Harrogate fringes, Nidderdale, upper Calderdale, the Pennine edges above Huddersfield and Halifax -- you may have had your last frost only a week or two ago in a cool year. Do not plant tender annuals or tomatoes outside until you have had a run of settled mild nights. Lower-lying gardens around York, Leeds, Sheffield and the Vale of York have typically been safe since mid-May, but the upland fringe follows its own schedule about two to three weeks behind.
Garden clearances and first hedge cuts booked in June get done before July diaries fill. Hedge trimming is the priority booking in July -- the best window of the year. Fill in the form above and we will match you with a local Yorkshire gardener for your area and job type.
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