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Overview
Horticulture worker work is practical support in nurseries or greenhouses where horticultural crops, plants, bulbs and flowers are produced and handled.
In job descriptions, look for greenhouse environment, plant care, crop harvest, fertilisation, soil structure, storage facilities, task records and order picking for agricultural products.
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Horticulture workers do practical crop work in nurseries and greenhouses. The work can include tending plants, monitoring greenhouse conditions, preparing soil, fertilising, harvesting crops, handling flower bulbs, keeping task records and moving products into storage or orders.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include plant care, crop production principles, soil structure, greenhouse types, fertilisation, harvesting, storage quality and order picking. Some work focuses on flowers and bulbs, while other work follows vegetable, nursery or organic production routines.
Salary context
Pay context depends on production scale, seasonal pressure, crop value, storage responsibility, machinery exposure and whether the role supervises hygiene or greenhouse routines. Work that requires independent crop monitoring is positioned differently from short-term harvest support.
Career paths
Common paths start with seasonal nursery, greenhouse or farm work and grow through reliable crop handling. Later moves can lead toward greenhouse operator, nursery lead, crop technician, propagation work, storage coordination, team supervision or horticultural sales support.
Good to know
Read vacancies for the production setting: nursery, greenhouse, field, flowers, bulbs or crops. Check whether the work is planting, nursing plants, harvesting, fertilising, picking orders, maintaining storage or recording tasks.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for horticulture worker work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 2
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
45-2092.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETLandscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
37-3011.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
Garden and horticultural labourers (9214)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/1a9d99ba-4c08-4864-8f6a-1b0f2b4cf883 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 9214.2 |
| ISCO group | 9214 |
| Concept type | Occupation |