How much landscaping job cost?

I have been looking for somebody to do landscaping in our garden? I got 1 quate for Aus $ 500+.. for only to give us garden design %26amp; will come with us %26amp; show which plant to go where in the garden? Is the right price for only doing this?? Can anyone tell me the good %26amp; cheap lanscaping company ( in Sydney) to do all the job including planting , digging etc...?

How much landscaping job cost?
Don't know about things "down under" but just want to suggest as a general rule, to get professional advice, you have to pay a professional person's salary. There is some education involved and someone with experience in your area has even more valuable knowledge. Even for planting, I think it'd be worth it to pay for some experience. You could hire a strong high school kid for cheap, but if things are planted wrong and they all die, you're out all the money and have to start over.





Another thing, to give you idea what people pay for landscaping, when we built our house new, everything we read and were advised was to plan to spend at least 10% of the price of the house on landscaping. And over the first few years, we easily did that. That was starting from bare dirt, so included sod, a few big trees, shrubs, rock, mulch, etc.
Reply:I think that's $428 US dollars. That is a good price if they are any good. Remember putting in the wrong plants could cost you thousands. Do you get a drafted design for that in case you don't want to do it all at once?


I've been designing for 10 years. We had our own landscape installation business, so we would do the design for free if we got to do the installation. No draft. We charge $50.00 per hour in Atlanta for installation.