Landscape gardening, is it a good career choice?

Question

Im appreciate any advice anyone has to offer on this. Im a novice gardener at the moment. I want to be able to earn abit more money. Id like to be either self employed (as i am at the moment) or work with someone.

Would anyone out there be interested in employing me do you think? So i can assist them?

thanks

Answer 1

Whitey, The more you learn about gardening and landscaping, the better off you'll be and the better able to assist anyone who decides to employ you. So always seek to learn more. As for whether to actually get a degree in any certain area of gardening or horticulture or landscaping or design, that is completely up to you and your time and finances.

Here's a link from iVillage Garden Web that addresses exactly your question and may help you: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/teach/msg0121345627194.html
Here's one from Texas A&M: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/
And one for a distance learning site: http://www.worldwidelearn.com/career-training/landscape-design.htm for landscape design that might be good. Watch that places like this don't fleece you, though. Maybe check them out through the BBB.

Happy Learning!