Gardeners and landscape gardeners
Job Overview
This skilled role designs, creates, and maintains outdoor green spaces, from private gardens to public landscapes. They are crucial for enhancing aesthetics, promoting biodiversity, and ensuring the health and functionality of outdoor environments.
Key responsibilities for Gardeners involve planting, pruning, watering, weeding, and maintaining plants, lawns, and flowerbeds. For Landscape Gardeners, responsibilities include designing landscape plans, constructing features like patios or pathways, and installing complex planting schemes. A core function for both is understanding plant species, soil conditions, and sustainable practices, operating gardening tools and machinery safely, and ensuring visual appeal.
They also collaborate with clients, property owners, and suppliers to understand visions, source materials, and bring landscape designs to life. Ultimately, they are accountable for the beauty, health, and functionality of outdoor spaces, directly contributing to environmental well-being and client satisfaction.
Core Details
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