Nursery Jobs

People love to plant trees, flowers, and shrubs because having plants around creates a
naturally beautiful setting, helps us relax, and gives us fresh air.

Plants are a huge industry. You can get one from your local nursery.

- A nursery worker works hands on with a plant from seed to maturity.

2. First they pick the seeds they want to plant, then they plant row upon row of them
– enough to meet consumer demand.

3. Next they focus on nurturing the plants until they can be purchased.

- Nursery workers plant, harvest, transplant, cultivate, tend, prune, water,

fertilize, and grow plants and trees.

4. They also watch the plants for diseases. It takes observation, monitoring,
judgment, and manual dexterity.

- Nursery workers are like caring parents who don’t mind getting their
hands dirty to make sure their plants thrive.

- Nursery work is both a labor of love and labor intensive.

- Nursery workers find themselves in a greenhouse or outdoors in all

weather conditions. Lifting, shoveling, digging, cutting, pruning, and
planting are part of the game. They log lots of hours on their knees with
their hands in the dirt.

- Most nurseries focus on certain types plants – those that they think will
sell. This may mean flowers, ornamental shrubbery, fruit trees, saplings,
or exotic flowers. Typically this is a seasonal business with the most work
occurring during the growing and planting seasons in spring and fall.

- Nurseries provide plants to both retail and wholesale operations. Stores

like Home Depot, florists, and landscapers all obtain plants from nurseries.
If you are a do-it-yourself type person, you can go directly to a nursery to
buy an apple, aspen, oak, or palm tree. Some nurseries also specialize in
mail order plants. That’s right, you can buy a tray of tropical houseplants
through the mail.

- Every plant is different. Some trees take years to grow and develop.
Flowers can often be ready in months.
- Nursery workers must monitor temperatures, humidity, and soils.
Sometimes they will cut plants to create clones or graft tree branches to
create stronger and healthier trees and plants.

- Nursery workers are the professional growers that ensure the best plants
grow up healthy, so that plant and tree lovers can buy and enjoy them. It
definitely takes a green thumb.

- After the initial growing process is over, it’s time for nursery workers to sell
the plants. Usually flowers are sold in trays or pots, while trees are balled
and burlapped to retain the roots and soil during the journey to their new
homes.

- Nursery workers need to be experts on all aspects of the plants and trees
they grow so that they can advise customers on how to keep the plants
healthy. Customers rely on a nursery worker’s advice to ensure that their
plant lives a long healthy life.

- Nursery workers surround themselves with plants and trees all day, every
day. It’s a refreshing job that keeps you out of an office. Watching a
flower, tree, or shrub grow from a tiny seedling to maturity is what makes a
job as a nursery worker so appealing.