Education
Careers
The horticultural industry is the largest employer in the UK. With over 18.5 million gardeners spending over £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 are available by clicking here
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. For more information click here
One area concerning both Lantra and the RHS is the skills crisis in historic and botanic gardens.