Agardener is someone who practicesgardening, either professionally or as ahobby.
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A gardener is any person involved in gardening,[1] arguably the oldest occupation, from thehobbyist in a residentialgarden, the home-owner supplementing the family food with a smallvegetable garden ororchard, to an employee in aplant nursery or thehead gardener in alarge estate.
Thegarden designer is someone who will design the garden, and the gardener is the person who will undertake the work to produce the desired outcome.
The term gardener is also used to describe garden designers andlandscape architects, who are involved chiefly in the design of gardens, rather than the practical aspects of horticulture.Garden design is considered to be an art in most cultures, distinguished from gardening, which generally meansgarden maintenance.Vita Sackville-West,Gertrude Jekyll andWilliam Robinson were garden designers as well as gardeners.[2]
Garden design is the creation of a plan for the construction of a garden, in a design process. The product is the garden, and the garden designers attempt to optimize the given general conditions of the soil, location andclimate, ecological, and geological conditions and processes to choose the right plants in corresponding conditions. The design can include different themes such as perennial,butterfly,wildlife,Japanese,water,tropical, orshade gardens. In 18th-century Europe, country estates were refashioned by landscape gardeners intoformal gardens or landscaped park lands, such as atVersailles, France, orStowe Gardens, England.
Today, landscape architects and garden designers continue to design both private garden spaces, residential estates and parkland, public parks and parkways to site planning for campuses and corporate office parks. Professional landscape designers are certified by theAssociation of Professional Landscape Designers.[3]
The designer also provides directions and supervision during construction, and the management of establishment and maintenance once the garden has been created. The gardener is the person who has the skill to maintain the garden's design.
The gardener's labor during the year include planting flowers and other plants,weeding,pruning,grafting,deadheading, mixing and preparation ofinsecticides and other products forpest control, and tending gardencompost. Weeds tend to thrive at the expense of the more refinededible orornamental plants. Gardeners need tocontrol weeds using physical orchemical methods to stop weeds from reaching a mature stage of growth when they could be harmful to domesticated plants. Early activities such as starting young plants from seeds for latertransplantation are usually performed in early spring.
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