342432 Landscape Gardener

Registration or licensing may be required.

• Landscape Construction Worker

• Structural Landscaper

This occupation has a skill level corresponding to the qualifications and experience below.

Australia

• Skill Level 3: AQF Certificate III including at least two years of on-the-job training, AQF Certificate IV, or at least three years of relevant experience

New Zealand

• Skill Level 3: NZQF Level 4 qualification, or at least three years of relevant experience

• Interprets plans and drawings to construct garden landscapes
• Constructs hardscape structures, such as gravel and paved walking areas, walls, fences, pergolas, ponds, barbecues, and garden furniture
• Prepares seedbeds and growing sites for planting of softscapes, such as tree plants, bushes, hedges, flowers, and bulbs
• Plants trees, bushes, hedges, flowers, and bulbs
• Prepares lawn areas by spreading topsoil and planting grass or by laying instant turf