Certificate III in Retail Nursery

Duration - 3 year
Study - TAFE / CIT

Tasks

  • Engaging with customers
  • Cleaning gardens and removing rubbish
  • Creating visual merchandising displays
  • Maintaining nursery plants and gardens
  • Identify plant specimens
  • Assisting with planting and transplanting flowers, shrubs and trees
  • Preparing gardens sites using gardening tools

Future prospects

  • Diploma of Horticulture

Also known as

  • Horticultural nursery assistant
  • Garden labourer
  • Horticultural nursery hand

If you like

  • Customer service
  • Plants
  • Team work
  • Working outdoors (hot & cold climates)

We look after

  • Wages
  • Allowances
  • Annual leave & annual leave loading
  • TAFE/RTO fees
  • Mentoring & support
  • WHS/PPE

Fact

There are over 43,800 people employed in this industry. (LabourMarketInsights.gov.au)

 

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