landscape gardener

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Work site environment

• Odours
• Outdoors

Work setting

• Work in employer's/client's home
• Garden centre
• Urban area
• Rural area
• Greenhouse
• Remote location
• Various locations
• Lawn care company
• Nursery - horticulture
• Landscape contractor

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Manage landscaping projects
• Prepare conceptual designs
• Prepare proposals
• Estimate costs
• Write specifications
• Survey and assess designated sites
• Prepare contracts and tenders
• Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
• Apply various treatments such as pruning, spraying, repairing damaged areas and injecting with treatment solutions
• Assess the health of lawns
• Examine trees and shrubs to diagnose problems and disease
• Plan and co-ordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses and other purposes
• Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens
• Plant and move trees

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Horticulturist Trade Certification
• Landscape Gardener Trade Certification
• Landscape Architecture Technologist Certificate
• Landscape Architecture Technician Certificate
• Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA) certification
• Chemical application certificate or licence

Experience and specialization

Landscaping experience

• Residential projects
• Restoration and preservation projects

Area of specialization

• Landscape design
• Landscape construction
• Horticultural consulting
• Plant knowledge and identification

Additional information

Security and safety

• Driving record check (abstract)

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Attention to detail
• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Own tools/equipment

• Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player

Benefits

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• Learning/training paid by employer
• On-site housing options
• Wellness program