Gardeners (General)

Gardeners (General) plant, cultivate and maintain parks and gardens.

What the job involves

• Prepares and maintains seedbeds and growing sites

• Propagates and plants trees, bushes, hedges, flowers and bulbs

• Prepares lawn areas by spreading top soil and planting grass, and laying instant turf

• Maintains planted and grassed areas by weeding, trimming, fertilising, watering and mowing

• Prunes trees and hedges, and installs plant support and protection devices

• Constructs gravel and paved areas, walls, fences, pergolas, ponds, barbecues and garden furniture

• Examines trees to asses their condition and determine treatment

• Lopping limbs off trees and shaping branches using chain or handsaws

• Sprays and dusts plants and trees to control insects and disease, and fells diseased trees