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Keeping your own accounts can be quite a time-consuming task, so look into small business accounting software that can simplify the whole process. It is also important to contact a qualified accountant for specific business financial advice.
Potential Customers
In addition to individual homeowners, a landscaper can find business opportunities, anywhere there are lawns and gardens to be maintained, such as municipal parks, golf courses, botanical gardens, hotels, schools, colleges and the grounds and indoor plantings of business premises.
Our Gardeners Insurance offers a flexible approach to insuring your small to medium size business from a company that understands the needs of freelancers and businesses working in the horticultural and floristry profession.
Gardening Courses
Once you've set yourself up with your gardening equipment and you feel confident enough to take on work, you are ready to go. However, if you are a little rusty or would like to learn more about gardening before you start then you may want to consider taking a Gardening Course.
According to the Horticultural Trade Association's figures, the landscape gardening industry employs over 60,000 people and has an annual turnover of approximately £3 billion - and it is growing. But if you think it may be time to flex your green fingers then there are certain rules you need to know.
Are you a keen gardener, passionate about plants, and wanting to learn more? Or do you want to start a career in horticulture? Thinking about a career change? Maybe you are working in the horticultural industry and want to gain a qualification?
The RHS offers a range of qualifications to meet the needs of all those wishing to develop their horticultural knowledge and skills. Although they are aimed at those wishing to acquire the skills and knowledge to pursue a career in horticulture, the qualifications are also ideal for the keen gardener who wishes to develop their horticultural knowledge and skills.
Join the professionals
The Institute of Horticulture is the only organisation that can truly claim to bring together all professionals involved with every aspect and facet of the diverse industry that is horticulture. There are organisations concerned with such specialist areas as plant propagation, bedding plant production, golf greenkeeping – and many more - but most horticulturists, whatever the career path they have chosen within horticulture, see themselves as part of the broader industry and have much in common with, and much they want to share with, their colleagues in other areas of horticulture.
The Institute provides the opportunity to associate with those colleagues through technical and social gatherings, through its publications, on its website and through schemes such as the mentoring and CPD initiatives currently being developed by the Institute.
Membership of the Institute is open to all those who work in horticulture or have an involvement in horticulture or related areas such as the marketing or distribution of produce, journalism, or the provision of equipment and machinery. The Institute's aims and interests reach across all sectors of the industry and members are identified with broad professional groupings most closely matching their own interest
