Landscaping & Horticulture Careers

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LANDSCAPING & HORTICULTURE CAREERS : Do you wish you could spend all day outside in the great outdoors and play with dirt and plants and water? Or do you just find yourself motivated by DIY reality shows? Then maybe you should consider a career in landscaping and horticulture.

Landscaping deals mainly with the design and construction of environmental elements, while horticulture takes in aspects of ecology, conservation, restoration, trees and vegetation. Career FAQs Landscaping & Horticulture tells the stories of the people who design, build and maintain our urban landscapes, from golf course designers to nursery owners.

Find out job opportunities from a landscape architect, parks and gardens apprentice, tradesperson, environmental planner, apprentice nurseryperson, development assessment officer, open space coordinator, environmental contracting business manager, landscape management company CEO, civil engineer, landscape designer, golf course designer, director of beach, park and recreation services, horticulturist, landscaping foreperson, urban designer, surveyor, bush regenerator, arborist, franchisee of a lawn mowing business and a Green Corps team leader.

If you’re interested in how natural and urban landscapes come about, this book can provide you with the practical ways to get out into the sunshine, get your hands dirty and get paid for it.