Search for a Gold Coast Course
Job Demand: Medium
Average weekly wage: $1,078
Where you could work:
Gold Coast Local Council, Parks and Gardens, Sports Arenas and Golf Clubs
Landscape Gardeners do the following tasks:
- Preparing and maintaining seedbeds and growing sites
- Propagating and planting trees, bushes, hedges, flowers and bulbs
- Preparing lawn areas by spreading top soil and planting grass, and by laying instant turf
- Maintaining planted and grassed areas by weeding, trimming, fertilising, watering and mowing
- Pruning trees and hedges, and installing plant support and protection devices
- Preparing plans and drawings, selecting materials and plants, and scheduling landscape construction
- Setting out and installing hardscape and softscape structures
- Constructing gravel and paved areas, walls, fences, pergolas, ponds, barbecues and garden furniture
- Examining trees to assess their condition and determine treatment
- Lopping limbs off trees and shaping branches using chain and handsaws
- Spraying and dusting plants and trees to control insects and disease, and felling diseased trees