How to become a Soft Landscaper Operative

Soft Landscaper Operative

Soft Landscapers are professionals who use natural materials and living plants to create outdoor spaces.

What do Soft Landscaper Operative do?

Landscapers create and maintain gardens, parks and other outdoor areas. Landscape operatives create and look after planting and other features in outdoor and indoor spaces, creating attractive environments. Soft Landscapers are professionals who use natural materials and living plants to create outdoor spaces.

Soft Landscaping can include the following cultivation and preparation of ground and soil, laying turf, sowing seed, positioning plants, planting trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs and annuals, providing initial aftercare.

Soft Landscaper Operative Projected Earnings

£20,000 - £26,000

Qualifications needed

Undergraduate degree in
  • College course
  • Apprenticeship
  • Working on the job
  • Specialist training

Skills & Atributes Needed

  • Understanding and implementing designs and schemes of work, measuring and marking out, safely operating tools and machinery, appropriate care and maintenance of machinery and tools,
  • Hold a driving license
  • Being physically fit, can work outside (whatever the weather)
  • Good communication and listening skills, in following instructions
  • To be able to work independently and/or part of a team
  • Demonstrate initiative
  • Good organisation
  • Willingness to learn/continue training.

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