Careers

Introduction

The horticultural industry is the largest employer in the UK. With more than 18.5 million gardeners spending more than £2,000 million a year on both plants and gardening products, there is a huge range of career opportunities available in the commercial sector of horticulture alone.

But there is much more to horticulture in the UK and Come into Horticulture , a booklet jointly produced by the RHS and the Institute of Horticulture (IoH), is available to give guidance on possible career paths. These include:

• Commercial horticulture
• Amenity horticulture
• Parks and gardens
• Landscape design and architecture
• Nursery and garden centre management
• Plant propagation
• Research
• Journalism

Contact either the Education Department at RHS Garden Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB or the Institute of Horticulture , for your copy of Come into Horticulture .
Individual Adobe Acrobat pdfs of each of the job profiles within Come into Horticulture

For an insight into the career path of a young horticulturist, view the profiles of students who have studied at RHS Garden Wisley. Read what training at Wisley has done for them and what future plans they have for a career in horticulture.

Student profile - Helen Bostock
Student profile - Cornelia Zielke
Student profile - Roy van Beek
Student profile - Naoto Takamura

For full details of all vocational courses and examinations run by the RHS choose either Training or Examinations .

Growing careers

Growing careers is a web-based service which the RHS is involved in. It includes details on job vacancies, courses and careers.
Visit the site for more information

Lantra

Lantra is the Sector Skills Council for the Environmental and Land-based Sector.
Find out more information about Lantra