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Overview
Garden labourers cultivate and maintain flowers, trees, shrubs, lawns and planted areas in parks, gardens, greenhouses or private outdoor spaces.
In job descriptions, look for planting, watering, pruning, turf care, soil work, plant health checks, hand tools, garden equipment and seasonal outdoor tasks.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Work is practical and seasonal, often outdoors in parks, private gardens, grounds or greenhouses. Tasks include planting, watering, pruning, turf care, soil preparation, weeding and watching plant health.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include plant species, soil structure, watering principles, plant propagation, hand pruning equipment, turf equipment, pest control, lawn care and safe handling of soil or plant products.
Salary context
Salary context depends on site type, season, equipment used, physical workload, plant-care responsibility and whether the job is routine grounds upkeep, greenhouse work or more varied landscaping support.
Career paths
Paths can move from garden labour into horticultural worker roles, turf care, greenhouse assistance, landscape maintenance, plant nursery work or more specialised pruning and plant health tasks.
Good to know
Check adverts for indoor or outdoor setting, expected weather work, plant types, equipment, turf duties, pesticide handling, lifting, weekend schedules and whether supervision or training is provided.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for garden labourer work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
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Occupation group
Garden and horticultural labourers (9214)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a10eb17a-3c78-4f7a-a1da-8f31146339d3 |
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| ESCO code | 9214.1 |
| ISCO group | 9214 |
| Concept type | Occupation |