Nursery

The nursery industry consists of two sectors: production nursery and retail nursery.

Production Nursery  work involves:

  • Propagation, production and maintenance of plants for sale to retail nurseries, supermarkets, garden centres, hardware stores, landscapers, farmers, forestry, urban forestry and revegetation projects 
  • Marketing and promotion of plant products and services

Retail Nursery  work involves:

  • Maintenance of plants for sale and/or hire
  • Retailing of plants and associated products
  • Provision of advice on plant selection and garden design
  • Marketing and promotion of plant products and services

Useful Links

Nursery and Garden Industry Victoria

Qualifications and occupations

Pre-vocational outcome leading to generalist horticulture work.

AHC10316 Fact Sheet

Retail Nursery Assistant, Retail Sales Assistant

AHC20816 Fact Sheet

General Horticulturalist, Production Nursery Tradesperson, Horticultural Marketing and/or Salesperson.

AHC31116 Fact Sheet

Retail Nursery Assistant or Sales Assistant.

AHC31216
Fact Sheet

Production Nursery Team Leader 

AHC40616
Fact Sheet

Retail Nursery Supervisor 

AHC40716
Fact Sheet

Production Nursery Manager 

AHC50816
Fact Sheet

Retail Nursery Manager 

AHC50916
Fact Sheet