Breadcrumbs
Careers & Training
Information and resources to help you start or develop your career in horticulture, including qualifications and courses for work in plant production, professional gardening, landscape design & construction, arboriculture, greenkeeping, groundsmanship and garden retailing. Information on this page is compiled in association with Grow.
Grow Your Career In Horticulture
Arboriculture - education and training
30 September 2011From short courses for craft skills to apprenticeships and even PhDs, arboriculture training providers offer plenty of options, Jack Shamash finds.
CPD - No let-up on learning
13 May 2011Improving skills benefits both staff and employers, stresses Gavin McEwan.
Moving up to management
30 April 2010Having perfected practical skills, if your next step is to manage other people in those roles then training is essential, says Bethan Norris.
Further education - The vocation for more education
30 April 2010There are now more opportunities than ever to study horticulture to Degree level and beyond, says Gavin McEwan.
The Grow initiative: Promoting opportunities in horticulture
01 May 2009The Grow initiative shows that the horticulture world is serious about the next generation.
Get Into Horticulture
What's it like to work in the different areas of horticulture? What qualifications and skills do you need? Find out here.
- What does a career in horticulture hold for you?
- Ten good reasons to get into horticulture
- Heritage and Conservation - Be a garden guardian
- Business, Production and Food - Growing prospects
- Garden and landscape Design - Changing the landscape
- Health and well being - Turning to horticultural therapy
- Turf, trees and green space - Supporting outdoor pursuits
- Qualifications - Finding your level
- What is a career in horticulture?
- Apprenticeships - A practical approach
- A good foundation: The Diploma in Environmental and Land-based Studies
- Useful organisations and contacts
- Professional bodies - knowledge bases
A Place For Everybody
How your GCSEs and A-levels can help you get into horticulture. Whatever your interests, this diverse industry is bound to have a role for you.
Horticultural Qualifications & Courses
Use our interactive map to find colleges and universities. Then click on the pin to find out what courses they offer.
Career Profiles
How have others built successful careers in horticulture? What attracted them to the world of plants? What training did they do? What are their jobs like now?
Events
Introduction to Beekeeping
- Warwickshire College
- Date: Sat 14 Jan 2012 - Sat 17 Mar 2012
- Venue: Pershore Campus, Warwickshire College
Chainsaw Maintaenance, Operation and Felling Tress CS30&31
- Hartpury College
- Date: Mon 06 Feb 2012 - Fri 10 Feb 2012
- Venue: Hartpury College, Gloucestershire
Chainsaw Maintenance and Cross Cutting CS30
- Warwickshire College
- Date: Mon 06 Feb 2012 - Tue 07 Feb 2012
- Venue: Pershore Campus
Movers
- Katharina Hamma, trade fair management unit, Koelnmesse
- Bruce Howes, gardener, South Staffordshire College's Rodbaston campus
- Steve Duke, editor-in-chief, Pest Management Science
- Daniel Scaife, communications manager, Horticultural Development Company
- Christian Maltby head of farm operations, Produce World Marshalls
- Lee Abbey, horticulture adviser, NFU
- Bob Widd, treasurer, Consulting Arborists Association
- Simon Lewis, service manager, Grosvenor Land Management
- Kevin Dowding, deputy head gardener, Alnwick Garden
- Ben Tallis, Chris Tallis Farm Machinery
- John Hulland, Maschio service coordinator, OPICO
- Dr Manon Williams, deputy chair, The Heritage Lottery Fund
- Alex Martin, product standards manager, Gardman
- Simon Chapman, Prototype PR
- Crispin Thorn, area director, Forestry Commission England
Additional Information
Latest jobs Jobs web feed
- Gardener (fixed-term) Prestigious private Estate near Guildford £18,000 pro rata, Near Guildford & Woking, Surrey
- FE Lecturer in Horticulture Writtle College Qualified Lecturer: £27,428 p.a. pro rata, Unqualified Lecturer: £23,661 p.a. pro rata, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex
- Garden Maintenance Supervisor Hewitt Landscapes Ltd Salary dependent on whether the role is full- or part-time., Various locations in North-West, West and South-West London
- Horticultural Advisor Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Circa £22,000 per annum, Woking, Surrey
- Hard Landscape Operatives & Stone Layers Siddeleys £22 - £28k DOE, Central London locations
In This Issue
NEWS: Senior parks staff exodus sparks alarm across capital
RETAIL: Garden centres look to supermarkets
MARKET REPORT: Ride-on mowers
INTERVIEW: Cruickshank Botanic Garden curator Mark Paterson
EDIBLES: Brassica conference news round-up
Latest Tenders
Contract for the Supply of Horticultural Machinery & Equipment
Sunderland City Council
CONTRACTS FOR THE SUPPLY OF PARKS
MAINTENANCE AND TREES MAINTENANCE
Wandsworth Borough Council
