Horticulture Careers

Information to help you start or develop your career in horticulture, including qualifications and skill requirements for a range of jobs in landscape creation, production, retail and landscape management.

Careers in Horticulture: Safeguarding the sector’s future

Features

Careers in Horticulture: Salary survey 2025 - wages by region

Careers in Horticulture: Salary survey 2025 - wage levels by sector

Careers in Horticulture: The top priorities for horticulture workers

Arborist working in Devon - credit: Flickr/ Lasting Spring (CC by 2.0)

Will the horticulture industry’s recruitment drive start to bear fruit?

Careers in Horticulture: Course directory 2024

Horticulture Salary survey: analysis update for 2023

Horticulture courses in the UK – 2022/23

Careers in Horticulture: how the new gold-standard T level will inspire horticulture recruits

Horticulture Salary Survey: what do the past year’s job adverts tell us?

How are employers in horticulture developing their offer to staff?

Horticulture careers - plugging the skills gap

Sargent's solutions - tips on how to optimise your application for a gardening job

Horticulture education update - staying on course

What options will apprentice levy open up for horticulture?

Career changers to horticulture

Sargent's solutions - facilitating staff training

Trailblazer horticulture training set to go live

A world of opportunities in green-space management

Making the most of new routes into garden retail

Landscape design and build fuelled by inspiration

Horticulture job case studies

Careers in Horticulture case study - botanic/heritage garden horticulture student - Shaun Ward

Careers in Horticulture case study - golf course/greenkeeping apprenticeship - Paul Selbie

Careers in Horticulture case study - landscape maintenance apprenticeship - Nick Davies

Careers in Horticulture case study - arboriculture/forestry trainee - Alfie Turner

Careers in Horticulture case study - garden design student : Matthew Bracken Hunt

Careers in Horticulture case study - crop technician trainee - Laura Dakin

How to write an effective press release: VIDEO

What will be the biggest issues for horticulture in 2025?

Why ongoing staff development is vital for horticulture careers and businesses

Landscape Institute supports members in meeting their career development objectives - credit: Andrew Mason

How HortWeek is thought leader for the horticulture industry

Finding top-class landscape industry training

Salary survey: Horticulture pay trends

Horticultural consultant Semo Kurtev chronicles his career progression

Kurtev runs a crop consultancy Zest and takes part in research and development projects - credit: Semo Kurtev

What will the Lords horticulture inquiry report? UPDATED

Matt Appleby speaking at the Lords enquiry

What factors are key for younger horticulture workers’ welfare?

Manual on workplace safety with protective mask, gloves and goggles

10 new Lords enquiry submissions highlight peat, labour, red tape problems

EXCLUSIVE HortWeek data analysis: horticulture salary averages have not risen since 2019

Opportunity knocks for the next generation of horticulturists

Christopher Weddell: English Heritage has a large training programme to support all grades of staff - credit: English Heritage

New careers and training focus for horticulture

Hard facts on skills gaps confirmed by Landscape Institute

Landscape Institute chief executive officer Sue Morgan

PODCASTS

Career changers: from music production to horticultural plant production with Neal Ritson

Changing careers from cycling to professional gardening - with Connie Hudson

Careers in the agritech and hortitech industries with Oli Hilbourne of Outfield and Laura Bouvet of Agr-TechE

Careers in garden management and professional gardening: Horticulture Week Podcast with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation

Scott Smith, Neville Stein and Raoul Curtis-Machin

Careers in garden retail: Horticulture Week Podcast with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation

Liam Beddall, Neville Stein and Steve Barrow

Horticultural education: Horticulture Week Podcast with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation

Lucy Lewis, Sarah Hale and Neville Stein

Careers in plant breeding: Horticulture Week Podcast with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation

Tim Kerley, Simon Crawford and Neville Stein

Careers news

Horticulture seasonal workers numbers 2026 confirmed at 2,000 fewer

Golf Club Salaries recommend 4.8% pay increase

Future horticulture leaders invited to apply for 2026 LSA Fellowship Scheme

HortWeek podcast reaches more listeners in 82 countries

Horticulture college fined after student loses finger

Chartered Institute of Horticulture award winners revealed

Top horticulture apprentice awarded at Malvern presentation UPDATED

Shuttleworth College students help Domoney with ITV garden makeover

30+ horticulture sector movers in first quarter of 2025

Two Day Energy Gardening Course with Alanna Moore at Homeacres

College merger planned

Ken Turner dies aged 86

Garden centre hosts students for careers day

EXCLUSIVE Wages biggest barrier to horticulture recruitment, despite employer pay stress

Young Horticulturist of the year launches with final at Hillsborough

College first to open vertical farm

RUC Senior Lecturer Hadi Aliki (left) and Jim Fairlie MSP

Lords horticulture inquiry back on the agenda

Future Gardeners celebrated as they find 'green heaven'

Pershore College launches new engagement forum for horticulture employers

Defra confirms seasonal worker numbers and reveals 91% satisfaction rate UPDATED

Daniel Zeichner MP - credit: Chris McAndrew (CC by 3.0)

Career profiles

Career profile - Garden Centre Buyer

Career profile - Parks Manager

Career profile - Planteria Manager

Career profile - Garden Designer

Career profile - Agronomist

Career profile - Landscape Projects Manager

Career profile - Landscape Architect

Career profile - Production Manager, Fresh Produce

Career profile - Maintenance Contracts Manager

Career profile - Head Groundsman

Career profile - Arboriculture Team Leader

Career profile - Head Gardener, Private Estate

Career profile - Landscape Estimator

Career profile - Local Authority Tree Officer

Career profile - Garden Centre Manager

Career profile - Head Greenkeeper

Career profile - Gardens Manager, Historic or Botanic Garden

Career profile - Sales Manager, Production

Career profile - Product Developer, Production

Career profile - Production Manager, Ornamental Nursery

CV Tips

Signs your horticulture CV needs a refresh

5 creative CV tips to help you land your next job

Five telltale signs your CV needs a refresh

How to craft a strong cover letter for your horticulture CV

Career Development

How to future-proof your career against the unknown

Girl handing over CV to future proof career

How to approach your employer about a pay rise

Hand putting money coin on each line rising

Wonderful Workplaces

"We work as one team, we are innovators and we are proud"

Daniel Vickridge at SWISCo shares insider insight into the organisation’s mission, team culture and what makes it a special place to work.

Features

Exciting opportunities in production horticulture

Skills for the modern age

Education Apprenticeships - Tailor-made training

Head Gardener

Thyme Southrop Estates Ltd, Southrop, Lechlade Gloucestershire
Landscape Contracts Manager

Fresh Horticultural Careers, South West London
Hard Landscaper

Fresh Horticultural Careers, Surrey/Guilford
Ramsbury Manor, Head Gardener

National Gardens Specialist, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire
Jinny Blom Design - Head Gardener

private estate - Jinny Blom, Near Stroud, Gloucerstershire
Skilled Gardener

Fresh Horticultural Careers, Oxfordshire
Garden Maintenance Foreperson

Fresh Horticultural Careers, London
Hard Landscaper

Fresh Horticultural Careers, South West London
Landscape Construction Foreperson

Fresh Horticultural Careers, London and surrounding areas
Lead Gardener

Fresh Horticultural Careers, London (Greater)