LANDSCAPE GARDENER

Tasks and responsibilities: 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 Requirements Minimum experience as a Gardner for 3-5 years AQF Certificate III includ...