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What can a career in horticulture
offer you?
Variety, for a start! The breadth
of activities horticulture encompasses is not always understood,
but a career in horticulture can involve you in a huge range of
activities, from growing and potting up seedlings to international
marketing, from travelling in search of rare and unusual plants
to creating CD-Roms, from designing a back garden to creating a
nature reserve, or making a golf course, from managing glasshouses
or selling pot plants at the nursery gates to moving grown trees....
Your work may be related to retail, to sports, to the landscape,
to food, to research, to biochemistry - you name it.
There is also a career in horticulture
whatever your academic abilities. This information sheet gives details
of the wide variety of courses available for school leavers both
at 16 and 18 and for those making career changes later on. It also
gives details of the various choices that are offered within each
course by the different colleges and universities. You may not already
have the exact entry qualifications - don't worry. Each college
or university operates its own systems for entry so you are encouraged
to request an advisory interview to discuss your own case.
When you have qualified and are working in horticulture
you will find it advantageous to join the Institute of Horticulture.
We have given details on the information sheet of which courses
qualify you for membership of the Institute and at what level.
Click here
to download the current Education and Training Courses Booklet.
Take a look at some of the possible choices of
jobs:
What
is horticulture?
What
is Commercial Horticulture?
What
is Amenity Horticulture?
Job Profiles:
So,
you want to work with Sportsturf?
So,
you want to work in a Botanic Garden?
So,
you want to be a Landscape Architect?
So,
you want to be an Urban Designer?
So,
you want to be an Arborist?
So,
you want to be a Head Gardener?
So,
you want to work in a Garden Centre?
So,
you want to be a Nursery Manager?
So,
you want to own your own Nursery?
So,
you want to be a Plant Propagator?
So,
you want to be a Salad Grower?
So,
you want to be a Fruit Grower?
So,
you want to be a Garden Designer?
So,
you want to be a Food Technologist?
So,
you want to be a Horticultural Scientist?
So,
you want to be a Journalist?
So,
you want to be a Horticultural Therapist?
So,
you want to work Overseas?
So,
you want to be a Florist?
So,
you want to be a Lecturer?
So,
you want in Micropropagation?
So,
you want to be a Plantsman?
So,
you want to be a Parks Manager
Click here
for details of the wide variety of courses available for school
leavers both at 16 and 18 and for those making career changes later
on. It also gives details of the various choices that are offered
within each course by the different colleges and universities.
You may not already have the exact entry qualifications - don't
worry.
Each college or University operates its own systems for entry so
you are encouraged to request an advisory interview to discuss your
own case.
When you have qualified and are working in horticulture you may
find it advantageous to join the Institute of Horticulture. We have
given details on the information sheet of which courses qualify
you for membership of the Institute and at what level.
To request further Education
and Careers Information please complete the following:
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