Horticulture and Landscape Operative

An individual involved maintaining public parks and gardens, green spaces and historic gardens, private gardens and estates or in production nurseries and retail outlets.

Many businesses will be specialised in their activities, such as grounds maintenance (soft-landscape) or landscape construction (hard-landscape).

Soft- landscaping includes the establishment and maintenance of plants and cultivated areas.

Hard landscaping includes establishment of hard surfaces and structures in addition to the establishment of plants in cultivated areas.

There is an apprenticeship standard for this role, which was originally available from June 2017.