What is the best starting point for a career in gardening or landscape design?

Get a job at your local, privately owned garden center. You could work retail, or as a landscape laborer. Experience is worth the time it takes. I grew up in a family owned garden center while my father was teaching Plant %26amp; Soil Science at a university. By the time I was 17, I was grading his student's papers for him.

What is the best starting point for a career in gardening or landscape design?
Put an ad in the local ad paper and try to get customers
Reply:Go to your local college and ask them if they have classes in landscape design. Some have two year classes other four.


Learn all you can, the more you learn, the more you earn.


Landscaping is a big big business now!!
Reply:Get a job as a laborer with a landscape company.
Reply:Look for a program in Landscape Architecture. There are a lot all over the country! You'll get an awesome, rewarding, job that pays really well too!





Go to this link:


http://www.asla.org/





Then click on career resources.





I'm working on my masters in Landscape Architecture right now. It's a lot of work, but it's so fun and so worth it!





Good Luck!
Reply:contact your local "small business" that sells landscaping/decorative supplies, and ask them if they will allow you to subcontract for them. you will build a local client base there, then get your name out. remember, when you are starting your own business, you have to take baby steps, and WORD OF MOUTH is the best advertising tool
Reply:sneak across he US border

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