Gardener

Gardeners are at our linguistic understanding the job title for people who work in the professional field agriculture and horticulture there. The job of a gardener is a recognized profession, which is accompanied by the respective Chambers of Agriculture and the professional association.

Gardener but was in central Germany to the 1900 denomination for small farmers (see below " The Gardener as a small farmer ").

The gardener as a profession

Germany

The training for gardeners can be completed in the following disciplines:

• Nursery
• Friedhofsgärtnerei
• Horticulture, landscaping and sports ground construction (formerly nurseryman, Hofgärtner or fancy gardener in distinction to commercial gardeners )
• Vegetable
• Arboriculture
• Staudengärtnerei
• Floriculture

On 31 December 2006, in the horticultural disciplines total 17,750 apprentices (among horticulture specialist workers ) employed. Based on the individual subject areas, the situation was as follows:

• Nursery: 1401 trainees
• Friedhofsgärtnerei: 589 trainees
• Gardening and Landscaping: 10,909 trainees
• Vegetable Gardening: 543 trainees
• Arboriculture: 260 trainees
• Staudengärtnerei: 295 trainees
• Ornamental Crops: 3753 trainees

Since 2000, there is, in response to the increasing number of garden centers and simply selling nurseries without production part, in North Rhine -Westphalia and Bavaria for Gardener trainees in the fields of floriculture and nursery the opportunity, from the second year of training, the new focus on " advice and sale " to prove (sales gardener ). Also in Landshut - Schönbrunn is the possibility to specialize in this direction. However, the term " sale Gardener" does not constitute a discipline, but also emphasizes the content of the training regulation Sell and consulting in the fields of nursery and floriculture. The Gardener training generally lasts three years. There is the possibility of training for specialist agricultural host golf course maintenance, specialist agricultural host tree care and Audited nature and landscape manager after successful completion. A refinement to the master gardeners and horticultural technician is just as possible as the study of horticulture or landscape architecture. The college entrance permits to study at a technical college, the general university studies at a university.

In Austria there for several years, the profession " Gartencenter-Kaufmann/-frau ", a specialization within the retail merchants education.

The job description Florist / florist is one of the craft.

See also: Federal Association of self-managed horticulture

Switzerland

In Switzerland there are three different basic vocational training for gardeners:

• Gardener / EBA
• Gardener / EFZ
• Vegetable Gardener / EFZ

The three training places are companies, vocational school and industry courses.

Gardener / EBA

The training for gardeners EBA takes two years. The Offered disciplines are:

• Garden and Landscape
• Plant Production

The vocational school is visited in one day a week.

Gardener / EFZ

Gardener EFZ is a professional training in Switzerland. The training lasts three years.

The offers specializations are

• Nursery
• Garden and Landscape
• Perennials
• Ornamental plants

The vocational school is visited in one day a week.

Vegetable Gardener / EFZ

Training for the Vegetable Gardener / EFZ lasts three years. The vocational school is in block courses.

Famous gardener

As garden designers persons involved see also: List of important garden designers.

Botanically active people see also: List of major biologists.

As plant breeders persons involved see also: Plant Breeding.

• Georg Arends (1863-1952), plant breeders, Germany
• Bouché, gardeners dynasty, since 1685 in Berlin
• Karl Foerster (1874-1970), plant breeders, Germany
• John Hutchinson (1884-1972), Great Britain
• Peter Joseph (1789-1866), garden designer, Germany
• Christian Reichart (1685-1775), Germany
• Leopold Karl Theodor Froebel (1810-1907), nurseryman and plant breeders, Switzerland
• Albert Schöchle (1905-1998), Director Blooming Baroque Ludwigsburg

The gardener as smallholder

A gardener ( other names: Hintersättler, tenants, background settlers Kötner, cottagers Kossäten, hand farmers Handfronbauern ) was up to the replacement of forced labor in the 19th century in Central Germany, a homeowner whose property is usually about a quarter - or eighth - hooves included (about 3-8 acres), but for once could, however, also feed up to a Dreiviertelhufe, which was not sufficient for delivering adequate operating a family farm (garden food). In some places, therefore, allotment holders and gardeners United were distinguished. And they spoke of the " fruit and kitchen garden at the house ." Since around 1700 in some sources of garden goods or " house with garden " is mentioned, the transition from the gardeners to the farmers (especially the Teilhüfnern ) and the cottagers was both fluent in the other hand, in the rural social structure. The gardener was therefore not usually involved in the hallway and use the local council and was dependent in addition to its sufficient for their own use agriculture to another, additional activities, for example industrial or commercial character.

The garden food was there within the meaning of the constitutional definition of holistic possession of house and agriculturally usable land, the garden was under law and did not belong to verhuften community hall.

Dreschgärtner were located on separated from manors and country were obliged to Fronleistungen during threshing. The known to us in the present profession of gardener was formerly known as fancy gardener.