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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

Arborists and tree service technicians

• Examine trees and shrubs to diagnose problems and disease, and apply various treatments such as pruning, spraying, repairing damaged areas and injecting with treatment solutions.

Golf course superintendents

• Direct crews who maintain the health and appearance of golf courses and their surrounding landscapes, plant and move trees, and apply fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides and pesticides.

Horticulturists

• Plan and co-ordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses and other purposes.

Landscape designers and landscape architectural technicians and technologists

• Survey and assess sites, prepare drawings, sketches and reports and perform other duties to assist landscape architects in designing landscaped environments.

Landscape gardeners

• Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens.

Landscapers

• Plan and construct landscaped environments which may include trees, shrubberies, lawns, fences, decks, patios and other landscape structures.

Lawn care specialists

• Visit clients, assess the health of lawns, and apply fertilizer, pesticides and other lawn care products.

• Completion of a university or college program in agronomy, arboriculture, horticulture, landscaping, landscape design or landscape technology is usually required.
• Experience as a landscape and grounds maintenance labourer may be required for golf course superintendents, landscape gardeners and landscapers.
• An apprenticeship program is available for horticulturists, arboriculturists and landscape gardeners.
• Trade certification for landscape horticulturists is available, but voluntary, in all provinces.
• A provincial licence to apply chemical fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides and pesticides may be required.
• In Quebec, membership in the regulatory body is required to use the title of Professional Technologist.
• Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified landscape horticulturists upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.

• The Red Seal endorsement allows for interprovincial mobility.

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