Find Gardener and Landscaper Jobs on Grafter

Sign up free as a Grafter, build a gardener and landscaper profile that lists the work you take on (maintenance rounds, soft landscaping, hard landscaping, tree work), your travel radius, your tickets, and a few photos of past gardens, and local jobs start arriving in your feed and inbox. Apply in one click and message the client to talk through site access, plant choices, materials, and timings.

Yes. Grafter is completely free for gardeners and landscapers — no signup fee, no monthly subscription, and no charge to apply for jobs. Grafter only charges clients a small platform fee, so what you agree with the homeowner, letting agent, or site manager is yours to keep in full.

Once you and the client agree a job — whether that is a single garden tidy, a fortnightly maintenance visit, or a multi-week landscaping build — a work agreement is created on the platform covering scope, materials, and payment. Payment is handled securely through Grafter once the work is signed off, so you are not chasing weekend invoices or waiting on letting-agent payment runs.

Strong gardener and landscaper profiles include any City & Guilds or RHS horticulture qualifications you hold, NPTC chainsaw and aerial-rescue tickets if you do tree work, NPTC PA1/PA6 spraying certificates if you handle herbicides, public liability insurance (most homeowners ask for this), waste-carrier registration if you remove green waste, and a CSCS card if you take on commercial grounds work. Upload a portfolio of past gardens — before/after of clearances and finished landscaping shots travel particularly well — and clients can review your documents, reviews, and work history before deciding to hire you.

Garden jobs on Grafter cover the full range of outdoor work — regular mowing rounds and lawn care, soft landscaping and planting schemes, hard landscaping such as patios, paths, decking and fencing, hedge cutting and tree surgery for ticketed operators, full garden clearances and restorations on overgrown plots, and rolling grounds-maintenance contracts for schools, estates, and commercial premises. List the specialisms you cover on your profile and the matching jobs come through.

Agencies and lead-buying sites take a daily margin off your day rate or charge per quote, decide which clients you are sent to, and can stop sending work at any point. Grafter is a direct-hire platform — you keep 100% of what you agree with the client, build your own relationships and repeat-customer round, and pick the gardening jobs you want. There is no commission taken from your pay and no-one negotiating the rate on your behalf.

Yes — gardening and landscaping jobs assume you turn up with your own kit. For maintenance work that usually means a rotary or cylinder mower, a strimmer, hedge cutters, a leaf blower, secateurs, loppers, a pruning saw, and a vehicle that will take green waste. Hard landscaping needs a wheelbarrow, spirit levels, a wacker plate or compactor, mixer, and the usual cordless tools. Tree work needs your chainsaws, climbing kit, and PPE. Plants, paving, and bulk materials are normally supplied by the client — the job post will say either way.

Yes. You set your own availability, your travel radius, and the kinds of garden jobs you take on. Take a single tidy-up day, a fortnightly maintenance round, or a three-week landscaping build — Grafter has no minimum hours and no exclusivity, so you can work on Grafter alongside any existing round, agency, or letting-agent contract you already have.

After every paid garden job, the client can leave you a review on your profile. Those reviews stay with you across every future job, which matters a lot for gardening — clients hand over the keys to their garden, so they shortlist on past work and reputation. The more reviews and seasonal photos of finished gardens you build up, the more often your profile gets picked when a gardener and landscaper job is posted in your area.

The gardeners who win the most work tend to keep a complete profile with seasonal photos of finished jobs — neat lawns and edges, planted borders, finished patios, before/after clearances — list which jobs they will and will not take (e.g. tree work over a certain height, ride-on mowing, herbicide application), upload their tickets and insurance, and reply quickly when a client messages. Many clients shortlist the first applicant who can give them a clear yes on a start date, so a fast, specific reply often wins the job.