Garden advice
Garden advice - as advice on the creation and maintenance of a garden - is offered by various service providers in the "green industry", for example landscape gardeners or landscape architects . But also specialist advisors in garden centers or gardeners advise their customers on questions relating to private gardens. In addition, there is a service of the same name from cities, chambers of agriculture, agricultural advice centers, gardening academies and other authorities or public institutions.
The performance is not determined by a clearly defined job and activity profile. Under the keyword "garden advice", assistance for fertilization and plant protection is summarized as well as the mostly free acquisition talks of the landscape gardener.
An independent gardening consultant has generally studied landscape planning / land maintenance / landscape architecture and works independently on a fee basis. Garden consultants are therefore usually landscape architects or graduated engineers in landscape architecture. Master gardener or horticultural technician (new job title in North Rhine-Westphalia: Agricultural business economist ) from the specialist field of gardening and landscaping with special training and experience are also able to offer qualified gardening advice. The garden consultant's main focus is on design advice for private garden owners. It can only be described as an independent service if it is independent of products and services.
Garden advice can be understood as an entry-level service in landscape architecture and helps garden owners to break down the inhibition threshold for becoming a landscape architect . In addition to garden planning and garden design (execution / gardening and landscaping ), gardening advice can be described as a third service in the private garden.