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Parks and Gardens Apprenticeship
A parks and gardens horticulturist works in the parks and gardens sector of the horticulture industry. As a parks and gardens specialist you will attend to the care of trees, shrubs, flowers and lawns in public and private gardens, reserves, recreational facilities and industrial and housing estates.
There are a number of skills you will learn such as the operation of powered equipment including mowers, tractors, chain-saws, leaf blowers and hand tools such as clippers, pruning saws, shovels, rakes, hedge trimmers and brush cutters. You will also learn about fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides and the proper use of hand and automatic sprayers and spreaders. Care for lawns, mulching, weeding and trimming and edging flower beds and walkways are all in a days work for a parks and gardens horticulturist.
Parks and Gardens is a four year apprenticeship and you will be required to complete a Certificate III in Parks and Gardens nationally recognised qualification.
For more information on the Parks and Gardens trade, click here to view a video from SkillsOne.
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