# Gardener

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For other uses, see [Gardener (disambiguation)](/source/Gardener_(disambiguation)).

A **gardener** is someone who practices [gardening](/source/Gardening), either professionally or as a [hobby](/source/Hobby).

## Description

A gardener is any person involved in gardening,[1] arguably the oldest occupation, from the [hobbyist](/source/Hobby) in a residential [garden](/source/Garden), the home-owner supplementing the family food with a small [vegetable garden](/source/Kitchen_garden) or [orchard](/source/Orchard), to an employee in a [plant nursery](/source/Plant_nursery) or the [head gardener](/source/Head_gardener) in a [large estate](/source/Great_house).

## Garden design and maintenance

The [garden designer](/source/Garden_designer) is someone who will design the garden, and the gardener is the person who will undertake the work to produce the desired outcome.

## Design

The term gardener is also used to describe garden designers and [landscape architects](/source/Landscape_architect), who are involved chiefly in the design of gardens, rather than the practical aspects of horticulture. [Garden design](/source/Garden_design) is considered to be an art in most cultures, distinguished from gardening, which generally means *garden maintenance*. [Vita Sackville-West](/source/Vita_Sackville-West), [Gertrude Jekyll](/source/Gertrude_Jekyll) and [William Robinson](/source/William_Robinson_(gardener)) 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 and [climate](/source/Climate), ecological, and geological conditions and processes to choose the right plants in corresponding conditions. The design can include different themes such as perennial, [butterfly](/source/Butterfly_gardening), [wildlife](/source/Wildlife_garden), [Japanese](/source/Japanese_garden), [water](/source/Water_garden), [tropical](/source/Tropical_garden), or [shade](/source/Shade_garden) gardens. In 18th-century Europe, country estates were refashioned by landscape gardeners into [formal gardens](/source/Garden_design) or landscaped park lands, such as at [Versailles](/source/Palace_of_Versailles), France, or [Stowe Gardens](/source/Stowe_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 the [Association of Professional Landscape Designers](/source/Association_of_Professional_Landscape_Designers).[3]

## Maintenance

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](/source/Weeding), [pruning](/source/Pruning), [grafting](/source/Grafting), [deadheading](/source/Deadheading_(flowers)), mixing and preparation of [insecticides](/source/Insecticides) and other products for [pest control](/source/Pest_control), and tending garden [compost](/source/Compost). Weeds tend to thrive at the expense of the more refined [edible](/source/Edible_plants) or [ornamental plants](/source/Ornamental_plant). Gardeners need to [control weeds](/source/Weed_control) using physical or [chemical](/source/Herbicide) 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 later [transplantation](/source/Transplanting) are usually performed in early spring.

## See also

- [History of gardening](/source/History_of_gardening)
- [Landscape architecture](/source/Landscape_architecture)
- [Celebrity gardener](/source/Celebrity_gardener)
- [List of professional gardeners](/source/List_of_professional_gardeners)
- [Garden centre](/source/Garden_centre)
- [Flower garden](/source/Flower_garden)
- [Order of Free Gardeners](/source/Order_of_Free_Gardeners)

## References

1. ["Gardener"](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gardener). [The Free Dictionary](/source/The_Free_Dictionary). Retrieved 1 October 2013.

1. Geoffrey Allan Jellicoe & Susan Jellicoe (1987). [*The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day*](https://archive.org/details/landscapeofmansh01jell). [Thames & Hudson](/source/Thames_%26_Hudson). ISBN 978-0-500-27431-6.

1. ["APLD"](http://www.apld.org/). [Association of Professional Landscape Designers](/source/Association_of_Professional_Landscape_Designers). Retrieved 1 October 2013.

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