Gardeners

What the job involves

• 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