Interior Landscape Job Description
With increasing frequency, hotels, hospitals, retail centers and other businesses are bringing plants indoors to replicate the beauty and environmental benefits they used to provide only outdoors. To make this greenery come to life inside requires special training and expertise. Interior landscaping professionals install and maintain plants indoors in unnatural environments, necessitating special considerations for plant selection, irrigation, fertilization and pest management. Interior landscape technicians give special attention to plant cleaning, pruning, watering and plant rotation. These specialists take particular pride in replicating outdoor green spaces indoors to offer peace, stress reduction and appreciation for people to enjoy.
Interior Landscaping Job Essentials
Typical Benefits*
- Medical coverage
- Dental
- Paid vacation time
Degrees in floriculture or ornamental plant production can give interior landscaping professionals an edge
*Median salaries and benefits should be used as a guide. Actual compensation is influenced by location, type of business, employee’s experience, etc. and benefits vary among employers.
Chris Raimondi, Interior Landscaping Professional
Bringing nature to individuals within their living spaces, Chris facilitates biophilic connections, extensions of the basic human need for nature and human psychology.