The idea of working in the open air and being close to nature is attracting more and more French people.
Whether they are students or in professional retraining, all have in common the desire to exercise outdoors.
How to do it ?
What are the landscaping jobs?
Working with plants: second nature
The landscaping world is not just about growing plants.
Apart from the professional gardener, there is indeed a varied panel of professions aimed at shaping nature.
Equally manual, the job of landscaper offers for example multiple challenges since this professional is responsible for the arrangements decided in consultation with his client or why not an architect.
While respecting the established plans, he must select the most suitable plants and take care of their planting, while also thinking about the irrigation of the land and the harmony of the whole.
The tree pruner is also a profession acclaimed by nature lovers.
If you are passionate about trees and like to trudge, this job is for you.
Be careful therefore not to be afraid of heights because the pruner works regularly at height to take care of the different species of trees, the characteristics of which he obviously knows by heart.
For those who prefer to have their feet on the ground, nurserymen are just as much in contact with nature.
The person who takes care of it attends and participates in all the stages of a plant's life: cutting, growth, repotting, care, etc.
These manual trades, indoors or outdoors, are the best known, but there are dozens of others related to the creation, maintenance or landscape construction.
Become a master builder
If you feel more like the soul of a project manager, nothing prevents you from turning to positions of responsibility, which are in charge of the realization of a green space, for example.
This is the case of the site manager.
Very often in pairs with the works supervisor, his job consists of managing everything at the same time: the workers, the progress of the works, any problems encountered... As a team leader, he directs and supervises, while performing manual tasks himself.
The landscaping work supervisor, meanwhile, takes care of the administration, from the start of the site until its acceptance.
He also organizes the various landscaping arrangements, plans the works and puts on the coordinator's cap to supervise the whole.
Finally, the landscape architect (who can also be a works supervisor) is at the origin of the creation and development of green spaces.
It is up to him to define the needs of a site, to design plans and to propose, more broadly, solutions to his client, who can be an individual, a company, or even an institution.
All tastes are in nature
If the landscaping professions are diverse and varied, the training courses are just as much.
You should know that two paths are possible to work in the landscaping trades: general agricultural education diplomas (CAP agricole Landscape gardener or professional agricultural patent for landscaping work) and specialization certificates.
The latter are reserved for continuing education or learning, and are important for those who would like to specialize.
In order to broaden your horizons and possibilities of professional development, you can alternatively opt for a vocational baccalaureate in landscaping.
If you wish to follow this path and specialize, still in continuing education or apprenticeship, several certificates are also offered here: CS Integrated watering, CS Landscape construction, CS Maintenance of sports and leisure grounds, or CS Diagnosis and size of trees.
At bac +2 and +3, you can also follow a BTS agricultural landscaping or a professional license, two courses that allow future project managers to go further and continue their studies.
Here again, appropriate certificates offer continuing training gateways to active workers, such as the landscape designer collaborator CS and the Ornamental Tree Management CS.
Beware, however, of courses that do not include fieldwork.
Often without an apprenticeship, students who have graduated from university courses have less experience and struggle to find a company whose hiring capacity is limited.
Finally, for long-term training enthusiasts, several landscape engineering schools such as the Institute of Spatial Landscaping Engineer Techniques (ITIAPE) in Lille or Agrocampus Ouest in Angers will open all the doors to this sector. of activity.
Let us also mention landscape design schools such as the National Schools of Landscape in Versailles and Marseille, the School of Nature and Landscape in Blois or even the School of Garden Architecture in Paris.
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