Australian GovernmentStudy Australia

Landscape Gardeners


Landscape Gardeners plan and construct garden landscapes.

What the job involves

  • Prepares plans and drawings, selects materials and plants, and schedules landscape construction

  • Sets out and installs hardscape and softscape structures

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

  • Prepares seedbeds and growing sites

  • Plants trees, bushes, hedges, flowers and bulbs

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