Careers in Horticulture

Career tips and advice

Moving up to management

Having perfected practical skills, if your next step is to manage other people in those roles then training is essential,...

CPD - Benefits from extra training

Lifelong learning won't just help you keep up to date with industry developments, it can help expand your career options....

Further education - The vocation for more education

There are now more opportunities than ever to study horticulture to Degree level and beyond, says Gavin McEwan.

The Grow initiative: Promoting opportunities in horticulture

The Grow initiative shows that the horticulture world is serious about the next generation.

A good foundation: The Diploma in Environmental and Land-based Studies

The launch of a diploma for environmental and land-based studies will give school students experience of horticulture.

Ten good reasons to get into horticulture

If you are opening this year's Careers in Horticulture looking to enter the world of plants, congratulations! You have picked...

Further information

The organisations on this page will help you find out more about the particular area of horticulture that you are...

 

Latest Movers

Peter Bevan, agronomist, Bayer CropScience

Peter Bevan, a specialist fruit agronomist, has joined the Bayer CropScience field trials and horticulture campaign teams.

 
 

Career Profiles

 

How have others built successful careers in horticulture? What attracted them to the world of plants? What training did they do? What are their jobs like now?

Me & My Job - Will Malcolm, forestry graduate, Bangor University

- What made you choose to study horticulture? My father, a keen gardener, sparked my interest for working outside and...

Me & My Job - Mike Cox, landscape architect, Applied Landscape Design

- How did you get started? Fred Dibnah, or one of his lads, brought down a redundant brick factory chimney...

Me & My Job - Michelle Cain, self-employed gardener

How did you get into horticulture? My first horticultural memory was planting bulbs with my nan when I was about...

Horticultural Qualifications & Courses

 

Use our lising to choose the right course for the qualification you need, whether in production horticulture or retailing, from entry level to Masters degrees.

 

Short Courses

CAD for garden designers

  • 06-10 September 2010|Plumpton College Ditchling Road Nr Lewes East Sussex BN7 3AE
  • Plumpton College

Chainsaw Use and Maintenance

  • 06 September 2010|Merrist Wood Campus, Worplesdon, Guildford, Surrey, GU3 3PE
  • Guildford College

Chainsaw Use, Maintenance and Felling

  • 06 September 2010|Merrist Wood Campus, Worplesdon, Guildford, Surrey, GU3 3PE
  • Guildford College

Lantra Certificated Chainsaw Course (Small trees up to 200mm in diameter)

  • 06 September 2010|Ecclesmachan, Broxburn, West Lothian, EH52 6NH
  • Oatridge College

Maintain a chainsaw & Small Tree Felling (CS30, CS31)

  • 06 September 2010|Glenwood, Crabbswood Lane, Sway, Hampshire, SO41 6EQ
  • Arbor Venture Training

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Reece Watson

Changes at the Emirates and Nematodes

Firstly id like to take this opportunity to apoligise for my absence the past few months. This summer has seen...

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Fuggles

'Mmmm it's hop-picking weather'.  I'm hearing this a lot lately: I think it's the Kentish version of "Mmmm seasons of...

 

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