Gardeners

Key Tasks

• •Preparing and maintaining seedbeds and growing sites
• •Propagating and planting trees, bushes, hedges, flowers and bulbs
• •Preparing lawn areas by spreading top soil and planting grass, and by laying instant turf
• •Maintaining planted and grassed areas by weeding, trimming, fertilising, watering and mowing
• •Pruning trees and hedges, and installing plant support and protection devices
• •Preparing plans and drawings, selecting materials and plants, and scheduling landscape construction
• •Setting out and installing hardscape and softscape structures
• •Constructing gravel and paved areas, walls, fences, pergolas, ponds, barbecues and garden furniture
• •Examining trees to assess their condition and determine treatment
• •Lopping limbs off trees and shaping branches using chain and handsaws
• •Spraying and dusting plants and trees to control insects and disease, and felling diseased trees

Employment Projections to 2034