Landscaping
Become a... landscaper or landscape gardener, building and maintaining gardens, parks, sports grounds and other outdoor areas. You could also work on large scale interior landscaping projects, such as shopping centres or large office blocks and many more...!
Landscaping focuses on the development of outdoor areas for leisure and business use and for the benefit of the environment. Landscaping is physically creative work needing practical skills in building with hard materials and working with plants and turf.
Strong links with industry, our beautiful 400 acre estate, specialist machines and workshops will provide you with the essential elements you need to carve out a career in the industry, or to enhance your landscape skills.
Practical work is carried out in the campus grounds and you will benefit from specialist instruction in the use of stone, brick, concrete and timber and machinery such as dumpers, excavators and rotary cultivators. Visits are also made to local sites and nurseries preparing you for creative, skilled and practical work in the industry.
Why choose Merrist Wood College?
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400-acre estate featuring woodlands, wetlands, heathland, livestock and grasslands
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Specialist hand tools, machinery and equipment
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Well equipped landscape workshop and design studio
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Expert knowledge from our teaching staff providing an excellent standard of training
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Visits to local sites and nurseries
Day to day
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Assessing a site
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Paving, walling and wooden structures
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Machinery operations
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Plants and soil
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Horticultural skills
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Business and management
Average salary
Landscapers can earn between £15,000 and £20,000 a year, reaching £30-40,000 for senior staff.
Moving on
You could move on to degrees in landscape architecture, landscape management or horticulture.
Average salary
Landscapers can earn between £15,000 and £20,000 a year, reaching £30-40,000 for senior staff Possible jobs include working on sites for contractors, self-employment or possible supervisory posts.
Links
www.rhs.org.uk| - The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening.
www.horticulture.org.uk| - The Institute of Horticulture represents all those professionally engaged in Horticulture in the UK and Ireland.
www.bali.co.uk| - The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) is the UK’s representative trade association for firms undertaking landscaping, both interior and exterior, a wide range of associated suppliers to the industry.
www.defra.gov.uk| - The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs provides useful information on the Horticulture sector.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk| - Brief histories and visitor information on over 300 historic buildings and gardens owned by the National Trust in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
www.lantra.co.uk| - Lantra is the sector skills council for the environmental and land-based sector.
www.kew.org| - The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is one of the World’s leading botanic gardens.
www.elca.info| - The European landscape contractors association.