Garden Labourer
What the work is
Assists in cultivating and maintaining gardens.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Loads, unloads and moves garden supplies and equipment
- Assists with preparation of garden sites and plots using hand tools and machines
- Assists with planting and transplanting flowers, shrubs, trees and lawns
- Assists with propagating, planting and potting seeds, bulbs and cuttings
- Maintains gardens by watering, weeding and mowing lawns
- Cleans and maintains garden tools and equipment
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a garden maintenance crew looking after homes, small business grounds and a park. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A neglected garden looks cared for by the end of the day, and the owner stops to say thanks
- A hot day cools off with a breeze and the lawns look even and green
- You learn a new plant name and recognise it everywhere for the rest of the week
Hard days
- Mowing and hauling green waste in the middle of summer
- A client who wants something done that you know will harm the plant
- Rain stops the whole day and the jobs stack up for later
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 842131, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.