Offer Evaluation: Creating and Planting Beds

Hello everyone,

last year we completed the terrace, turf, and fence. Now it’s about creating flower beds including lawn edges and planting. We have received an initial offer for this, and I would like to get an assessment of the price (cheap? normal? expensive?). Here are a few background details:

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Garden area is approximately 10x15m excluding the terrace.
[*]The entire area currently consists of lawn.
[*]The lawn area was professionally laid last year (fine grading, rough grading) including the installation of turf.
[*]Espalier trees are to be planted at the end of the property. These are not part of the offer.
[*]Along the outer edges (left & right), curved beds are to be created and planted with perennials of different heights.
[*]Location: NRW, medium-sized city.



Offer:


[*]Turf sods: removal of 2.5m³ turf sods and soil excavation: 800€
[*]Edges: excavate 30lfm trench and install natural stone paving with gradient edge in concrete including 1 ton of small paving stones: 950€
[*]Beds:
[LIST]
[*]30m² area to be tilled, sand & substrate installation (1m³): 450€
[*]Deliver compost 2m³: 180€
[*]Deliver 300 perennials (ground cover, solitary, small shrubs): 1600€
[*]Plant perennials: 700€


[*]Total: 4680€ (GROSS!)

Additionally, about 1,000€ will be added for the espalier trees including supports. These are not included in the offer and will be procured and planted by ourselves.

We are also considering which parts we might leave out of the offer because we would like to do some of the work ourselves.

I look forward to your feedback!

Best regards
Conny

Sounds normal to me. Anyone who has done the work themselves knows that it is not “just a quick thing.” A few days ago, we finished our curved paths with edging; before that, there was also grass. However, everything is two sizes smaller than yours, which is why it was done by ourselves.

for which I would like to receive an assessment of the price (cheap? normal? expensive?).

No idea. You are the first person I have come across in my 51 years of life who hires a professional for beds in a normal/small garden.

No idea. You are the first person I have come across in my 51 years of life who hires a professional for beds in a normal/small garden.

We had a disposer come for the lawn sods. They don't accept cigarette butts. The rest we actually did ourselves. Important is a good wheelbarrow and a bed plan. Paved bed edging is pretty, but takes longer to make than you think beforehand. 300 plants on 40sqm seems a bit much to me. However, we also worked with plenty of dead wood in the bed, the work on the railway line yields a lot of great material for free. As a result, of course, we have fewer perennials per sqm.

We are here in the new development area. Some people will surely still be filling in here, maybe there is a possibility to provide one of the neighbors with the lawn and the excavation.

I have a garden plan where beds, trees, playhouse etc. are shown. I have also already made a rough preliminary selection for the plants. The hope is simply that the landscape gardener still has a few good ideas.

Here in NRW, everyone always goes to Venlo for shopping. Either Leurs or budgetplant